| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation presents the assessment of the contribution of girl child education towards poverty
reduction in Gweri Sub county in Soroti district. To meet the purpose, the study objectives were; to
examine whether girl education played a role in poverty reduction Gweri Sub County. To find out
the relationship between girl child education and poverty reduction in Gweri Sub County. To assess
the challenges encountered in educating a girl child. Finally to examine the strategies of overcoming
the challenges encountered by parents while educating a girl child I Gweri Sub County.
The researcher used a descriptive survey design to gather views. The researcher used questionnaire,
interview schedule, observation as primary methods both qualitative and quantitative research
designs with 80 respondents as a sample size were adopted. The secondary data was gathered from
literature of acknowledged authors and documentaries. The researcher used tables to analyze the
findings under study basing on study objectives.
The research findings showed that girl child education leads to economic empowerment. This is due
to a number of factors like mobilization of people at the grassroots level to be self-reliant through
engagement in the business arena. The findings further revealed that girl child education contributed
significantly towards wealth creation. The aspect of education programmes were intended to
contribute towards poverty eradication. The researcher discovered that improvement in education
was a way towards self sustenance and employment.
The findings showed that the levels of education for the girls and women was very low and that the
dropout rate was so high among girls than in boys this is attributed to parents preferring to educate
boys and leave girls out for marriage. The research findings further revealed that girl children faced
challenges of gender based violence, early marriages, teenage pregnancy, child labour and
discrimination at work and at home.
There is need to encourage parents to take girl children to school and on the other hand government
should focus on non -formal education and functional adult literacy programmes to cater for the need
of women who could not enter formal system of education and who dropped out of school early.
Further research should be carried out on policies that promote girl child and women education.
Government, nongovernmental organizations need to formulate policies that would sensitize the
public and girl children on the importance of education | en_US |
