Assessment of Challenges Facing Police Gender Desks in Addressing the Adolescent Pregnancy in Geita Region, Tanzania.

Mkama, Alex Sospeter (2024) Assessment of Challenges Facing Police Gender Desks in Addressing the Adolescent Pregnancy in Geita Region, Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study sought to assess of challenges facing police gender desks in addressing the adolescent pregnancy in Geita region. The study relies on both interpretivism philosophy and positivism, The researcher used an interpretive approach and employed a descriptive case study design. The target population was young people from the Geita region of 229,099 respondents; therefore, 399 respondents were the study's sample size. The sampling techniques used were probability sampling methods and non-probability sampling methods. The questionnaire method and interview method were used to collect data. The collected data were analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics. The findings revealed that Poverty, stigma and discrimination are among the challenges that pregnant girls face at a young age. Survivors of childhood pregnancies were ostracized, shamed, stigmatized and stigmatized by their communities once it was known that they were pregnant. Forced sex against young girls is the main cause of pregnancy. The media has not been used effectively in the police gender desk in disseminating information about child pregnancies and other gender-based violence. The results have identified that in the initial stages of acts of sexual violence there is no courage to report sexual violence. The study recommends that In order to reduce the wave of increase in childhood pregnancies in the society, there is a need for the police force in coordination with the central government, informants and stakeholders of gender issues to evaluate an ambitious and effective plan to determine the problems of the gender desk in the police force. Gender desks deal with problems related to teenage pregnancy and other incidents related to gender-based violence. The results of the study indicated that there is a high rate of teenage pregnancies and an increase in the number of police gender desks dedicated to dealing with the problem of teenage pregnancies. So it is good for the government to increase efforts to deal with these problems.

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