In recent years, the public and private sectors have realised the need to address the growing
trend of adolescent pregnancy. Key agencies have set in place policies to prevent and solve
the problem, but they still lack an integrated approach, which has created redundancies
and gaps in the process. The databases used by agencies to monitor the situation have yet
to be integrated. As a result, there are no key indicators covering teenage pregnancy, no
clear method for measurement and a lack of universal standards for sources of information.
In addition, common goals and targets have not been set for all agencies, especially in
terms of finding ways to cut teenage pregnancy rates, time frames for goals, how to achieve
them, monitoring and evaluating the results, mechanisms to be used to coordinate between
agencies on both the national and provincial level, and how to ensure the law is effectively
enforced.
Consequently, the National Health Assembly’s consensus to help solve the problem of
unplanned pregnancy among teenagers in 2010, despite getting approval from the Council
of Ministers, was not effectively executed because the involved agencies did not feel a
sufficient sense of responsibility as stakeholders in the initiative (Sitaporn Youngkong and
group, 2013).
There have also been pilot programmes to tackle teenage pregnancy launched by public
and private sectors, as well as research projects set up by scholars in educational institutions
to improve methods and guidelines. However, it is still not clear how the results from these
programmes can be effectively incorporated into the daily operation of agencies once they
are completed.
This chapter will prop