Adolescent school retention post COVID-19 school closures in Kenya: A mixed-methods study
Ruth Nanjekho Wafubwa, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Eva Muluve, Daniel Osuka, Karen Austrian · 2024
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Ruth Nanjekho Wafubwa and co-authors study why teenagers in Kenya did or did not return to school after COVID-19 closures in this 2024 paper. Long closures pushed many marginalized adolescents into work, pregnancy, or marriage. The team combined survey numbers with interviews in four settings.
They tracked 1,798 students who were aged ten to nineteen in 2020 and checked who was still enrolled in 2022. For girls, older age and even internet access went with lower return, and earning money cut the odds hard. Interviews named pregnancy, child marriage, and childcare as the brakes on girls. For boys, household income loss and paid work were the main drags, with drug and alcohol use named in interviews. Money trouble hurt both sexes. The authors argue crisis plans for schooling must be built differently for girls and boys.
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| CREATOR | Ruth Nanjekho Wafubwa, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Eva Muluve, Daniel Osuka, Karen Austrian |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |