A survey undertaken by Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) Agile 2.0 Nairobi Cohort 2024 has revealed that intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most prevalent form of violence, affecting at least 28.4 percent of partnered young women.
According to the survey findings, within the year 2024 young women affected by IPV have been reporting physical and sexual assault cases while those suffering from non-partner sexual violence (NPSV), which is less common, were 5.8 percent.
Releasing the findings, the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, Research and Extension at the Technical University of Mombasa, Prof.
Peter Gichangi, said the survey has shown that one in five young women in Nairobi have experienced physical violence yet over 20 percent remained silent. "Nearly one in five partnered young women reported that they experienced physical violence while over one in five reported sexual violence in the past year," said Prof.
