Aspirations versus Reality: Exploring Factors Affecting Meaningful Youth Participation in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Programme in Rural Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorEvelia, Humphres
dc.contributor.authorNdayala, Phoebe
dc.contributor.authorPage, Anna
dc.contributor.authorWafula, Charles O
dc.contributor.authorWesteneng, Judith
dc.contributor.authorKuya, Johnstone
dc.contributor.authorChesire, Faith
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-02T07:09:56Z
dc.date.available2023-08-02T07:09:56Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents the results of an implementation research of a pilot intervention, mainstreaming meaningful youth participation in a health care management system in Western Kenya with the aim to address adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This qualitative case study included 29 key informant interviews and 13 focus group discussions conducted in five community health units across four counties. The results demonstrate positive attitudes towards the principle of youth participation, yet, also a mismatch between the aspirations of young people to be active decisionmaking agents and the actual roles and responsibilities assigned to them. This paper further identifies factors that inhibit and enable effective youth participation at multiple levels; individual (such as education, discipline, migration, gender); organisational (such as guidelines and structures, financial support, and political interference) and societal (norms seeing SRHR as taboo and young people as unequal to adults), and formulates recommendations to address these.en_US
dc.identifier.citationEvelia, H., Ndayala, P., Page, A., Wafula, C. O., Westeneng, J., Kuya, J., & Chesire, F. (2021). Aspirations versus Reality: Exploring Factors Affecting Meaningful Youth Participation in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Programme in Rural Kenya. East African Journal of Health and Science, 3(1), 31-44.en_US
dc.identifier.otherDOI: https://doi.org/10.37284/eajhs.3.1.297
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/26491
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEast African Nature and Science Organizationen_US
dc.subjectMeaningful Youth Participationen_US
dc.subjectAdolescent Sexualen_US
dc.subjectReproductive Healthen_US
dc.subjectRightsen_US
dc.subjectYouth Involvementen_US
dc.subjectImplementation Researchen_US
dc.subjectKenyaen_US
dc.subjectCommunity Health Strategyen_US
dc.titleAspirations versus Reality: Exploring Factors Affecting Meaningful Youth Participation in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Programme in Rural Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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