This policy brief highlights and examines the existing legal, policy and institutional frameworks and practices on access to continued learning by pregnant girls and adolescent mothers as part of the Adolescent Mothers’ Education Initiative (AMEI). The Initiative is a human rights advocacy and social accountability programme that seeks to ensure the right of access to education of Pregnant Girls and Adolescent Mothers (PGAMs), without restrictions. The policy briefs draw from research conducted by ISER as part of the AMEI, such as the RTEI questionnaire and the respective country briefs, household surveys, barrier analyses, applied political economy analysis, Citizens Voice and Action (CVA – is a local level advocacy methodology that transforms the dialogue between communities and government in order to improve services, like health care and education, which impact the daily lives of children and their families) data and evidence collected from twelve primary and two secondary schools and communities and lastly from engagements with the community members, local leaders, heads of school and teachers, PGAMs in Ngogwe and Najja sub-counties, Buikwe district. Finally, it makes evidence-informed recommendations to ensure the protection of the right to education of PGAMs for consideration by the responsible authorities.
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