Kenya and Children and young people
- Capital:
Nairobi - Population:
40046566 - Size:
582650.0 Km2
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- The BLDS children & young people collection
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- Search for the latest children & young people-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Formal schooling undermines the basis of a pastoral livelihoods
- S. Kratli / World Bank, 2001
- This research article was carried out under the umbrella of the Learning and Research Program on Culture and Poverty of the World Bank. The Program’s objective is to learn about the relationship between culture and poverty, and p...
- Coping with prime age adult AIDS-related illness and death
- C. Desmond; K. Michael; J. Gow / Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
- This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath. It e...
- Debt relief in Kenya must be addressed to free up resources for social service provision
- N. N. Nafula / WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
- This study critically reviews the education sector in Kenya and the challenges facing the sector in achieving universal primary schooling. The study argues that the introduction of cost sharing system in Kenya has resulted in h...
- Economic incentives have powerful effect on work behavior of women with children in Kenya
- M. M. Lokshin; E. Glinskaya; M. Garcia / Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
- Paper analyses the effect of childcare costs on households' behaviour in Kenya. For households with children three to seven years of age, they model mothers' participation in paid work, participation in paid work of other household me...
- Benefitting the education of 30,000 Kenyan school age children in refugee camps
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2000
- This article discusses the aims and level of success of two programmes piloted in Kenyan refugee camps aiming to enrich education: an environmental education, and a peace education programme. Some of the projects aims were to: ...
- Determinants of educational achievement and attainment in Africa: findings from nine case studies
- R.G. Ridker / Africa Bureau Information Center, USAID, 1997
- This paper presents an overview and discussion of nine studies that attempt to explain educational achievement, attainment, and participation in different African countries. Available information on school, household, child, and commu...
- What can be done to improve the status of HIV/AIDS affected children in Kenya?
- Human Rights Watch, 2001
- This article explores the problem of HIV/AIDS among the childhood population in Kenya. The article finds that: HIV prevalence in the population of Kenya increased steadily and consistently by about 1 percentage p...
- When and where to intervene
- Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2000
- This article looks at ways of using food aid as an intervention to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS. Impacts include: people infected with HIV/AIDS are frequently unable to work for increasingly long periods of time, u...
- Was OXFAM (Kenya)'s relief work in Wajir successful?
- M. Buchanan-Smith; D. Barton / Oxfam, 1999
- OXFAM (UK & I) Kenya was engaged in relief work in Wajir District from September 1996 until October 1998. These interventions were undertaken in response to a series of natural disasters including both the drought of 1996/97 and t...
- Improving impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa
- P. Bonnard / Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 1999
- Study provides information on program and policy options. The findings and recommendations are based on an extensive review of the literature as well as interviews with researchers, USAID managers and other development and donor organ...
- Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE)
- The Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE) was founded in 2006 and has been working in the coastal region of Kenya. It was established to address democratic governance, socio?economic and youth concerns with a focus on the coast of Kenya.
- African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect Kenya Chapter (ANPPCAN)
- Prevention and protection against child abuse
