| dc.description.abstract | For a genuine and sustainable development to occur, equality is
paramount. It gives people equal opportunities to develop one’s
self through the access to resources.
The study was about assessing the contribution of women
empowerment in promoting antenatal service delivery. It looked
at the extent to which level of educational attainment affects
accessibility to antenatal services by women, the importance of
information accessibility to women of reproductive age and as
well as assessment of how women’s participation promote their
access to antenatal services.
The researcher employed the use of both the quantitative and
qualitative approaches for data collection and analysis.
Purposive and convenience sampling was used to choose the
suitable respondents, data collection methods and instruments
used included the focus group discussion method, questionnaire,
and interview: focus group discussion guide, and interview
guide.
From the study, empowering women help them to gain more
knowledge about antenatal services and to meet small but
necessary medical expenses such as medical cards, drugs, among
others and builds their self-esteem which enables them to make
genuine decisions concerning antenatal care. However other
factors such as poverty, domestic violence and prejudicial
attitudes remain a barrier to women empowerment.
To address such issues, the researcher believes that the
government and other stake holders should offer female
scholarship program and enhance female education beyond
secondary level and government policy is needed to increase
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media penetration amongst the masses with health care
information at the fore front as well as strong legislation
against domestic violence | en_US |
