Kenya and Participation
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Nairobi - Population:
40046566 - Size:
582650.0 Km2
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- What is the best tool to measure the gender impact of new agrictultural technologies?
- D. Andima / Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kenya, 2002
- This case study documents the development and testing of a gender-sensitive tool for impact evaluation of agricultural technology appropriate to conditions in Kenya. It also presents the findings of the impact evaluation conducted usi...
- How do East African pastoralist women adapt to living in towns?
- I. Nduma; P. Kristjanson; J. McPeak / International Livestock Research Institute, 2000
- This article explores how women adopt new town-based income generation activties as they settle around market centres. The study focuses on this process among East Africa pastoralists. The study finds that: while settli...
- Participatory research: a fertile methodology for improving disease control among Kenyan pastoralists?
- A. Catley; P. Irungu / Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2000
- This report describes small-scale participatory research on bovine trypanosomosis with Orma pastoralist communities in Tana River District (Kenya). The research aimed to combine the perspectives of researchers and livestock keepers to...
- Case studies of participation in privatised community animal health services
- T. Leyland; D., Akabwai; P. M Mutungi / Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1998
- The paper examines the sustainability of privatised community animal health services (CAHS) for remote areas in East Africa. Using a series of case studies from Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Malawi, Afghanistan, Chad and Somalia the authors...
- Strengthening nomadic pastoral livelihoods in Wajir: a manual
- Oxfam, 2000
- This manual was written in order to capture the wide body of knowledge and experience on development of Pastoral Associations which has emerged in Wajir (Kenya). This manual aims to: serve as a comprehensive ...
- Effects of Agricultural Commercialization on Food Crop Input Use and Productivity in Kenya
- P.J. Strasberg; T.S. Jayne; T. Yamano; J. Nyoro; D. Karanja; J. Strauss / Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
- Analyses the effects of smallholder commercialization on foodcrop input use and productivity in rural Kenya. The main research issues were: To examine the determinants of smallholder fertilizer use on food crops, with ...
- Broadening the debate : the Tharaka participatory action research project
- Guido Giarelli / Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1996
- Can we distinguish different types of indigenous knowledge? What are the main characteristics of such types? What is the meaning of sustainable development seen in this light? And how does this affect the research approach used? After...
- Submission to the World Bank by the Kenyan Government outlining plans for poverty relief
- Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2000
- The strategy states that the primary development goal for Kenya is to achieve a broad-based, sustainable improvement in the standards of welfare of all Kenyans. The paper stresses the role not only of Government but of the the private...
- Soil fertility policies must be relevant to all stakeholders
- H.C.K. Kinyanjui / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2000
- This paper analyses the way in which certain soil fertility policies have evolved, and how stakeholders perceive them. It attempts to understand better the tools and processes involved in formulating and implementing policies and meth...
- Systematic Client Consultation in Development: The Case of Food Policy Research in Ghana, India, Kenya, and Mali
- S.C. Babu; L.R. Brown; B. McClafferty / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998
- Successful food policy implementation is preceded by a defined policymaking process drawing from a sound information base. Yet too often the knowledge generated through food policy research does not become part of the local body of in...
- Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU (IPST)
- A participatory approach to improving veterinary services in Africa
