Educational Intervention and Early Marriages Reductions in North ‘A’ District- Unguja

Abstract

High prevalence of early marriage is the most common problem worldwide, which also is reported among Zanzibar girls. This problem constitutes a gross violation of human rights, leaving physical, psychological and emotional scars for life. The aim of this study was to assess the educational interventions and early marriage reduction in North “A” District Unguja. The emphasis was to identify the contributions of educational regulations, publicity and new syllabus on reducing early marriage rate. In this study, 90 participants were selected among Teachers and District officers. The study used quantitative approach. Primary data were collected using questionnaires and analysis was done using descriptive analysis and regression. Simple random Sampling was deployed. The study has revealed that, educational interventions are a major strategy in protecting early marriage in North ‘A’ District. Publicity reduces early marriage in the community through information and knowledge provided by using media like Television, radio and publication and also new syllabus had impact in reducing early marriage when students receive knowledge about cross cutting issues and then this knowledge shared in the society, more over there is a greater contribution of educational regulations in reducing early marriage due to different opportunity obtained in this regulations for the pupils.

Key words: Marriage, Early marriage, Interventions, Educational Interventions.

DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/11-6-03

Publication date:March 31^st 2021