Interventions for Keeping Adolescent Girls in School in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review

Background: Adolescent girls dropping out of school may lead to gender inequality, high illiteracy levels, single motherhood, unemployment, and many more undesirable outcomes that inhabit human capital development for girls. It is therefore important put measures in place support adolescent stay school. The objectives the scoping review were identify describe types studies conducted assess interventions keeping these low- middle-income countries. Methods Results: A comprehensive search was done Epistemonikos, Social Science Citation index, Embase, OVID Medline, Campbell Collaboration Library, CENTRAL March 2020. yielded 3,295 which 18 eligible inclusion. All included primary studies, 12 randomized controlled studies. other study designs mixed-methods longitudinal design, random evaluation, cross section, etc . categorized as follows: provision funding, school-based learners, community-based interventions, education systems intervention. Provision fees, supplies have shown evidence reducing dropouts, increasing enrolments attendance, while like hygiene promotion water treatment a Kenya found no significant observed effect on attendance. Conclusion: several been keep However, there need research be done. Therefore, authors propose conduct systematic sanitary towels retention