In its latest deal, Garissa County government has signed a long-term mutual work plan with the Unicef Kenya branch to build MCAs’ individual capacity to play the oversight roles and improve general accountability in the area that concerns constitutionally granted children rights.
Signing the new deal on Thursday, UNICEF's country director Mr Werner Schultink stated that the partnership would entail supporting and drafting of related bills and legislation on matters children’s rights.
He added that over 1.2 million school-going children ranging between the ages of six to thirteen were out of school despite concerted efforts to retain them in their respective learning institutions.
Werner also revealed that at least 40 percent of them were from the arid and semi-arid counties which apparently Garissa county lies.
The new development emerges even as gross enrollment ratios stand at 40 percent for the primary schools and seven percent for the secondary schools in Garissa.
Compared to the national averages which currently stand at 93 percent for the primary schools and 63 percent for secondary.
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