1. Adolescents in Kenya face challenges like lack of life skills training, rescue centers for girls, and policies supporting vulnerable groups. Organizations discussed partnering to address these issues through empowering parents, information sharing, and advocacy. 2. Access to friendly health services, basic hygiene needs, and support for behavior change and decision making were also gaps. Partnerships and lobbying were proposed to improve affordable access. 3. Early marriage, sexual debut, stigma, and discrimination were additional challenges. Outreach, counseling, and curriculum changes were suggested to provide information and support to young girls.

1. Adolescents (boys and girls) with parenting responsibilities
Kenya Chapter round table meeting
23rd
August in Nairobi, Kenya. (Responses from CRECHE, Child line Kenya, Woman’s Hope, CHF, Psychosocial Support
Center and Rafikistry.
Challenges/gaps Solution: What you are doing about it/ prevention/
recommendations
Organization/ Individual:
who is offering this solution/who
can we partner with
1. Technical support in training adolescents’
life skills and lack of rescue centers for
girls in crisis either as young mothers and
when they find out they are pregnant).
Partnerships with likeminded organizations that have the
expertise
To empower parents of teenagers economically and
with skills to support their children better.
PAN, Hope for teenage mothers,
Young Mothers Kenya.
2. Lack of policies supporting this vulnerable
group. A lot if parents are illiterate and not
able to consume messages.
Information sharing, literacy opportunities for parents
and involving both mothers and fathers.
Relevant government departments,
PAN,
3. Friendly Health services for adolescents,
access to basic hygiene needs like
sanitary towels, technical support for
behavior change training and life skills for
better decision making
Partnerships with other organizations, lobby for
affordable basic needs, family and youth friendly
services
Hospitals, Government, Girl Child
Network, TSC, churches and other
stakeholders skilled with technical
skills in life skills.
4. Stigma and discrimination, early
marriages, sexual debut at a very early
age.
Conducting outreach activities in program areas
targeting the young girls, counseling sessions, sexual
and reproductive health information to be included in
school curricular
PAN secretariat for technical
support, children’s department,
ministry if education and TSC.

2. Challenges/gaps Solution: What you are doing about it/ prevention/
recommendations
Organization/ Individual:
who is offering this solution/who
can we partner with
5. Economic empowerment for adolescents,
Lack of positive role models to work with,
stigma and discrimination
Strengthen access to economic support from youth
fund, banks etc and make them friendly to both boys
and girls. Formation of support groups to strengthen
resilience enrolling girls in vocational training to earn a
living for themselves and children.
Relevant Government departments,
ministry of youth affairs. PAN for
technical support. ,