Girl-Child Empowerment and Socio-Economic Welfare in Urban Southwestern Uganda: A Case of Kanungu Town Council, Kanungu District
The study aimed at establishing the nature of socio-economic welfare of girl-child empowerment interventions in urban Kanungu District through a case of Kanungu Town Council. More specifically, it intended to identify the forms of girl-child empowerment in Kanungu Town Council from 2005 to 2015, t...
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Global Journals
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12493/67 |
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| Summary: | The study aimed at establishing the nature of socio-economic welfare of girl-child empowerment
interventions in urban Kanungu District through a case of Kanungu Town Council. More specifically, it
intended to identify the forms of girl-child empowerment in Kanungu Town Council from 2005 to 2015, to
establish the extent to which girl-child empowerment has improved the socio-economic welfare in
Kanungu Town Council from 2005 to 2015, to identify and explain the challenges faced by stakeholders in
their efforts to empower the girl-child in Kanungu Town Council, and to generate strategies for enhanced
girl-child empowerment in Kanungu Town Council. The study adopted a case study research design
using a cross-sectional survey. The study population was composed of 15,138 people. Out of the
sampled population, the sample size included 332 respondents. Census, systematic random sampling
techniques were used to select respondents. Data collection methods included; interviews, questionnaire
administration, and documentary review. Data was analysed both qualitatively and quantitatively whereby
quantitative data were entered in EPIDATA version 10 and then exported to excel for analysis. The study
found out that forms of girl-child empowerment in Kanungu Town Council included; access to education,
reproductive health services and income generating. |
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