An Analysis Of The Factors Affecting Girl Cifild Education In Kawempe Of Kampala District

ABSTRACT

The study area covered Kampala Division choosing one zone that was Kiti Falawo zone The local members of the community were treated as key informants, the study focused on factors influencing girl children education in Uganda. Random sampling was used to select 60 respondents from one zone from the division as well as key informants qualitative and quantitative techniques were used where by the qualitative data was coded and tabulated while quantitative data was anally selected before, during and afler collection. The study from the findings was mostly on social factors, it was noticed from the findings, as the most affecting problems, hindering girl child educ~ttion. It made a number f recommendations including strengthening the situation of parents and guardians on the roles and obligations and a mechanism to be put in place to obligate parents to fulfill their school parental responsibilities of giving child education legal provisions to be put in place to impose sanitations against parents and guardians who fail to keep girls at school and introductions to those girls who can’t attain school. 

TABLE OF CONTENT

DECLARATION APPROVAL DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv TABLE OF CONTENT v LIST OF TABLES vii LISTS OF ACRONYMS vii ABSTRACT x CHAPTER ONE 1 1.0 Introduction 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 Statement of the Problem 3 1.3 General Objectives 3 1.4 Specific Objectives 3 1.5 Purpose of the Study 4 1.6 Scope of the Study 4 1.7 Research Questions 4 1.8 Limitations 4 CHAPTER TWO 6 LITERATURE REVIEW 6 2.0 Introduction 6 2.1 General Information 6 2.2 Cultural Factors Affecting Girl Child Education 6 2.3 Physical Barriers to Girl Child Education 7 2.4 Economic Factor’s Limiting Girl Child Education 8 2.5 Remedies for the problems affecting girl child education 9 V CHAPTER THREE .11 METHODOLOGY .ii 3.0 Introduction 3.1 Research Design 11 3.2 Research Methods ii 3.2.1 Questionnaire Method 11 3.2.2 Interview Method 11 3.3 Sampling Design 11 3.4 Data Analysis 12 3.5 Validity and Reliability 12 CHAPTER FOUR 13 PRESENTATION, INTERPRETATION AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS 13 4.0 Introduction 13 4.1 General Information 13 CHAPTER FIVE 21 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 21 5.0 Introduction 21 5.1 However, the remedies faced by the community were 22 5.2 Recommendations 23 REFERENCES 24 APPENDICES 25 APPENDIX 1: INTRODUCTORY LETTER 25 APPENDIX 2: QUESTIONNAIRE 26