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This is an early assessment of a policy implemented to enroll teenage mothers in the formal secondary education system in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This important policy change allowing teenage mothers back to school is new. The actions taken are identified, and recommendations are made. The late Tanzanian President, Hon. John Pombe Magufuli, declar...
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... In Tanzania, the ban had a moralistic premise as the former President Hon. John Pombe Magufuli, supported by some religious communities, declared that during his administration, no pregnant learners would be permitted to return to class (Issa & Temu, 2023). ...
Owing to the social, economic, health, educational and psychological implications of adolescent pregnancy, there had been many attempts to stop this phenomenon. These efforts, however, do not seem to be succeeding given its acceleration, generally in South Africa. The schooling of many adolescent girls gets disturbed by their pregnancy and others discontinue with schooling postpartum. This exacerbates South Africa’s challenges of unemployment, poverty, intergenerational illiteracy, and general societal vulnerability. The Pregnant Learner Management Policy contributed to the dropout rates as it prohibited adolescent mothers from returning to school before they had spent two years with their babies. It has since been replaced with the National Policy on the Prevention and Management of Learner Pregnancy in Schools, but reintegration remains a challenge. The pregnancy and reintegration challenges are aggravated by institutional, social, economic, cultural, and religious barriers. The pregnancies are due to several factors such as poor and inconsistent uptake of contraceptives, and inadequate parental involvement and guidance on the sexual and reproductive health education of the adolescents. The study used qualitative research techniques to delve deeper into the adolescent pregnancy and school dropout phenomenon; research participants were sampled from the three provinces with the highest number of births that were delivered by adolescents, namely KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, and Eastern Cape.
