IMPACT OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) AMONGEST GIRLS OF  SOUTH POKOT SUB COUNTY IN EDUCATION SECTOR

KIPRUTO, PATRICK

dc.contributor.author	KIPRUTO, PATRICK
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-16T13:05:02Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-16T13:05:02Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.identifier.uri	https://ir.gretsauniversity.ac.ke/xmlui/handle/20.500.12736/4108
dc.description.abstract	An estimated of two million girls worldwide WERE at risk of experiencing genital mutilation every year of which the majority are girls in 28 African countries. In Kenya the practice is prevalent with 38% of women age 14-49 reporting being circumcised. The aim of this research was to find out the effect of female genital mutilation on the girl child education in the county of west Pokot. In this county, FGM prevalence is as high as 95%. The practice has to let low girls’ enrollment in both primary and secondary schools leading to an acute shortage of female professional from the community. It is on this basis that the study ones to find out the effects in relation girl child education. Areas of concern were enrollment, discipline and performance in both internal and external exams. The study was recommending best approaches in the fight against FGM. It investigated whether FGM has a contributed towards the low enrollment for girls in the upper primary and secondary schools respectively and finally there is the effect of FGM on performance in both internal and external examination. In this study the researcher used both qualitative and quantitative methods. For quantitative methods, the researcher used the following tables, charts and bar graphs. In qualitative methods, the researcher used interviews, observation, questionnaires, focus group and discussions. It is envisaged that the results showed the destructive effect of FGM. It led to the creation of awareness in the community leading to sensitization. Anti-FGM campaign was taken a notch higher. Finally discipline in schools was enhanced and performance improved. The country benefited from a lot of female manpower that is otherwise wasted now due to FGM. The other researchers equally shift their attention to focusing on FGM in relation to education. The study concluded that exposure to a dissemination of the information on the social, psychological and the health risk of the practice on girls and women has impacted on the community beliefs and practices about FGM. The study recommends that campaigns against female circumcision should be integrated. in the social and economic development initiatives that particularly focus on women’s empowerment.	en_US
dc.publisher	Gretsa university	en_US
dc.subject	Research project	en_US
dc.title	IMPACT OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) AMONGEST GIRLS OF SOUTH POKOT SUB COUNTY IN EDUCATION SECTOR	en_US