TABLE OF CONTENT

DECLARATION I

APPROVAL H

DEDICATION III

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IV

LIST OF FIGURES vii

LISTS OF ACRONYMS IX

ABSTRACT XI

CHAPTER ONE 1

1.0 INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 BACKGROUND 1

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 4

1.3 GENERAL OBJECTIVES 5

1.4 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES 5

1.5 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 5

1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 6

1.7 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 6

1.8 LIMITATIONS 6

CHAPTER Ti~1O 8

LITERATUREREVIEW 8

2.0 INTRODUCTION 8

2.1 GENERAL INFORMATION 8

2.2 CULTURAL FACTORS AFFECTING GIRL CHILD EDUCATION 9

2.3 PHYSICAL BARRIERS TO GIRL CHILD EDUCATION 10

2.4 ECONOMIC FACTOR’S LIMITING GIRL CHILD EDUCATION 11

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2.5 REMEDIES FOR THE PROBLEMS AFFECTING GIRL CHILD EDUCATION 13

CHAPTER THREE 15

METHODOLOGY 15

3.0 INTRODUCTION 15

3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN 15

3.2 RESEARCH METHODS 15

3.2. 1QuESTIONNAIRE METHOD 15

3.2.2 INTERVIEW METHOD 16

3.4 DATA ANALYSIS 16

3.5 VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY 17

CHA.P’rER FOUR~ 1 8

4.0 FINDINGS 18

4.1 INTRODUCTION 18

4.2 GENERAL II~FORMATION 18

CHAPTER FIVE 30

5.0 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY 30

5.1 HOWEVER, THE REMEDIES FACED BY THE COMMUNITY WERE 31

5.2 RECOMMENDATIONS 32

.A.PPErIDICES 36

APPENDIX 1: QUESTIONNAIRE 36

5.7 INTERVIEW SCHEDULE PARENTS’ INFORMATION 41 

ABSTRACT The study area covered Kampala Division choosing one zone that was Kiti Falawo zone, Kawempe division. The local members of the community were treated as key informants, the study focused on factors influencing girl children education in Uganda. Random sampling was used to select 60 respondents from one zone from the division as well as key informants qualitative and quantitative techniques were used where by the qualitative data was coded and tabulated while quantitative data was anally selected before, during and after collection. The study from the findings was mostly on social factors, it was noticed from the findings, as the most affecting problems, hindering girl child education. It made a number f recommendations including strengthening the situation of parents and guardians on the roles and obligations and a mechanism to be put in place to obligate parents to fulfill their school parental responsibilities of giving child education legal provisions to be put in place to impose sanitations against parents and guardians who fall to keep girls at school and introductions to those girls who can’t attain school.