Kenya and Gender
- Capital:
Nairobi - Population:
40046566 - Size:
582650.0 Km2
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Content from selected partners can be found by following the relevant links in the central panel below - or check out our editor's selection of the best sector specific information from other websites.
- BRIDGE
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Search BRIDGE's database of gender-focused material
- The BLDS gender collection
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Search for the latest gender-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Making Care Visible: Women’s unpaid care work in Nepal, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya
- D. Budlender; R. Moussie / ActionAid International, 2013
- This report documents Action Aid's multi-country programme on women's unpaid care work. The programme, which is based in Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Uganda, recognises that while all women, regardless of class, race, caste and ethn...
- Women and political leadership in Kenya: ten case studies
- N. Kamau / Heinrich Böll Foundation North America, 2010
- This study, published by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, examines the perceptions, experiences, and achievements of ten female Kenyan politicians. The study reveals that women political leaders face challenges that include competing fam...
- Gender: A key dimension linking agricultural programs to improved nutrition and health
- R Meinzen-Dick / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- Empirical evidence shows that increasing women’s control over land, physical assets, and financial assets serves to raise agricultural productivity, improve child health and nutrition, and increase expenditures on education, as ...
- Study examining vulnerable people's use of information dissemination pathways in semi-arid Kenya
- V. K. Cherotich; O. Saidu; B. O. Bebe / African Crop Science Society, 2012
- Despite being projected to face the greatest impact of climate change, vulnerable people of the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa have inadequate access to the support services and information they need to build their adaptive c...
- Mobilising men in practice: challenging sexual and gender based violence in institutional settings
- A Greig; J Edstrom / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2012
- This document brings together stories, tools and lessons from the work of the Mobilising Men programme, a partnership looking at ways of engaging men as gender activists. Set up in 2009, the programme involves country partners in Keny...
- Livelihood sustainability through raising community capacity for fisheries/coastal management (RACCOM) in Lamu Archipelago, Lamu District, Kenya
- J. Kareko / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
- The goal of this project was to enhance livelihood sustainability through participatory planning and management of coastal fisheries resource utilization and conservation. Its main purpose was to strengthen the capacity of communities...
- Bride Price: Modern day slavery?
- Centre for Rights Education and Awareness, 2010
- A baseline survey conducted jointly by Center for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW) and MIFUMIBride Price Network to determine the nature and significance of bride price and the role it plays in perpetuating domestic violence in ...
- Arguing traditions... | World Bank
- A Harrington / World Bank, 2010
- Two major approaches on how to address women‘s land security can be identified: reforming the formal legal sector and embracing informal community practices. However, through research conducted among Kenya‘s agricultural com...
- Promoting gender equality in responses to climate change: the case of Kenya
- C.I. Speranza / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2011
- The recent UNFCCC Conference of Parties in Cancun, Mexico, was able to demonstrate, among other achievements, that the importance of gender in climate change responses is increasingly being acknowledged. Climate change affects women a...
- Defying the Odds: Lessons learnt from Men for Gender Equality Now
- Å Eriksson (ed) / African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2012
- In 2001, the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) took the first steps towards creating an African network of male activists against gender-based violence. In a regional consultative meeting which was o...
- Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW)
- Since Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) is culturally accepted in Kenya, CREAW is committed to transforming society and achieving for women, a just and dignified environment, in which their relation with men is equal, and their rights and freedoms are respected and realized.
- Gender Governance Programme, Kenya
- The overall goal of the GGP is to transform leadership and governance at all levels in Kenya in order to deliver on poverty reduction, access to basic needs and equality between and among persons. The Gender and Governance Programme is in its third phase, and it is a multi-stakeholder programme formulated to deepen the gains of the Engendering Political Process Programme (EPPP) in ensur...
- African Centre for Women, Information and Communications Technology (ACWICT)
- East African regional women's ICT organisation
- Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development (Acord)
- Alliance addressing rights and social justice in Africa
- African Women's Development & Communication Network (FEMNET)
- Enhancing NGOs contribution to gender mainstreaming, human rights and equality
- FAWE Newsletter (FAWE)
- Updates on the education of women and girls in Africa
- Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)
- African NGO aiming to improve education for girls and women
