Policy Brief Pregnancy School Re-entry policy in Zambia

Namakau Kakanda Sinkala
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Namakau Kakanda Sinkala: University of Witwatersrand, Zambia

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2021, vol. 05, issue 10, 288-290

Abstract: I. WHAT IS THE ISSUE? Teenage pregnancy is a global problem which interferes with the education of the girl child. This ends up perpetuating social injustice against females by making them vulnerable to poverty. Promotion of social justice through gender equality is at the center of development. The ideology of women’s empowerment through formal and non -formal education is a critical area of development which the United Nations has been championing. Adolescent girls’ education was amplified by the Beijing platform of action of 1995 which emphasized on the need to intellectually nurture the girl child as she grows into a woman (Beijing Declaration & Platform for Action , 1995). Some African countries including Zambia introduced Re-entry policy as a strategy to enable teenage mothers to continue their education. It was assumed that teenage mothers would take advantage of the Re-entry policy to continue their education after childbirth. This has not been the case as teen mothers’ re-entry across countries including Zambia established that significant number of teenage mothers are not re-entering (Nyariro, 2018).

Date: 2021
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