2.5 Ethical Considerations

Strategies of reducing teenage Pregnancy

More than half (54%) of the adolescents cited awareness creation and provision of comprehensive sexual education as a key intervention to avert adolescent pregnancies in their respective counties. Other aspects mentioned regarding teenage aversion included sensitizing the community on existing laws against certain practices such as FGM and other relevant policies, enforce implementation of the school re-entry policy and encourage that girls are maintained in schools even after giving birth, encourage use of contraceptives, abolish cultural practices that promote teenage pregnancies including night vigils like “disco matangas”, create measures or a toll-free line to report those who make impregnant teenagers; prosecute those impregnate teenage girls, avail job opportunities for teenagers to avoid idleness, ban some programs on TV that might influence promiscuous teenager behavior, collaborate with NGOs to assist teenagers by providing free education, and creating unskilled job opportunities, come up with scholarship and empowerment programs for teenage girls and provide sanitary pads and other necessities so that they remain in school.

The findings demonstrate the need to have a standardized sex education toolkit to enhance the capacities of adolescents on sexual reproductive health towards reduction of adolescent pregnancy since sex education does not happen at home as stated by the adolescents because of cultural barriers according to the study findings.

The goal of this toolkit is to package relevant and comprehensive Adolescent SRHR information that will enable facilitation and access to SRHR information and equip adolescent girls with the necessary skills that will positively change their life course.