Book Description
Conducted in collaboration with 18 community-driven organizations making up the AMPLIFY Girls network, this report synthesizes data from 382 adolescent girls in East Africa, who were school-going prior to COVID-19. Girls were asked about their pandemic-related experiences, their challenges in returning to school and their recommendations for action. At the highest level, our findings suggest that pregnancy is the primary driver of girls’ dropout from school during the pandemic, but that pregnancy is a symptom of underlying, acute, economic vulnerabilities and is augmented by situations of social and physical isolation that are often mutually reinforcing. This data is among the first of its kind and scope, reporting on girls' lived experiences during the Global Pandemic.