An Exploration of Boy Students’ Opinion on Girl-Child Empowerment Campaign in Kiambu West District in Kenya

Most of the problems that girls encounter are as a result of exploitative and oppressive laws, policies, cultural and religious practices, social-economic structures that undermine the human rights of girls and women. The empowerment of the girl-child in Kenya is the key to transformation from these experiences. In the recent past many organizations both government and non-government have come up with programmes that are tailored to give support to young girls and women towards economic, educational, social and political development. However though the empowerment campaign was necessary for the girl child, too much attention was given to her that resulted to the boy student feeling left out and indeed neglected. This study was conducted in Kiambu West District in Kenya, among boy students to explore their opinion on the girl child empowerment campaign. The study utilized the quantitative methodology with the descriptive survey design. The study was conducted in Kiambu West District which is made up of three Divisions. These are Lari, Limuru and Kikuyu Divisions. The District has nine Boys’ Secondary Schools. The target population was form three and four boys’ students in these schools. These were about three thousand five hundred in number. The researchers used cluster random sampling in each of the three divisions of Kiambu West District with the study population divided into two clusters; mixed schools and boys’ only schools. The study had a sample size of two hundred and forty students. From each division and each cluster one school was selected, this was a total of six schools from which forty students were randomly selected using the class register. Questionnaires were utilized to gather information from the students. Data analysis was done through descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentages and later displayed using tables and bar graphs