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What are the Factors Enabling and Constraining Effective Leaders in Nutrition? A Four Country Study
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014Leadership has been identified as a key factor in supporting action on nutrition in countries experiencing a high burden of childhood undernutrition.DocumentEvolving customary institutions in the Drylands: an opportunity for devolved natural resource governance in Kenya?
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014Improved governance of natural resources is crucial for building climate resilient livelihoods and economies in Africa’s drylands. This paper looks at why the authority and capacity of customary natural resource management institutions has been weakened, and how this impacts on resource governance and climate resilience.DocumentHandbook for cultural and religious leaders to end FGM
African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2014What action can you take to address FGM? This handbook, produced by the African Women’s Development and Communications Network (FEMNET) is a behaviour change communication tool intended to expand the engagement of men in religious and cultural institutions to reach out to their communities to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) in Meru and Tharaka, Kenya.DocumentLinking small holder agriculture to school food provision
Home Grown School Feeding, 2010Home grown School Feeding (HGSF) in Sub-Saharan Africa is seen as a key tool in the transition towards nationally owned school feeding programmes. However, to support the transition from externally driven school feeding to HGSF, the Partnership for Child Development (PCD) - a global consortium of concerned organisations and experts - has launched a new programme.DocumentHGSF working paper series #2: linking agricultural development to school feeding
Home Grown School Feeding, 2010Home-grown school feeding (HGSF) approach is conceived of as combining two distinct policy objectives: a social protection objective focused on the health and nutritional status of school-age children, and a focus on the economic and technical transformation of small-scale agriculture.DocumentDeveloping rations for Home Grown School Feeding
Home Grown School Feeding, 2010This paper discusses how to set the goals for school meal rations based on educational and nutrition outcomes. The paper points that school feeding programs do not significantly improve the nutritional status of school children unless the staple food is fortified. Consequently, parents need to be educated to continue to feed the same amounts of food at home.DocumentThe 2013 elections in Kenya and Zimbabwe: lessons for Africa and beyond
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014The 2013 elections in Kenya and Zimbabwe took place in the context of both optimism and fear. Held under new constitutional dispensationsDocumentFood provision in schools in low and middle income countries: developing an evidenced based programme framework
Home Grown School Feeding, 2010This paper aims to develop an evidence based rationale for school feeding programmes. The paper clarifies that school feeding is a popular programme that has been used to support the education, health and nutrition of children living in vulnerable food-insecure areas.DocumentHome Grown School Feeding and social protection
Home Grown School Feeding, 2010This paper argues that Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes have great potential to deliver various social protection benefits, not only for schoolchildren and their families but also for food supplying farmers.DocumentFemale genital mutilation practices in Kenya: the role of alternative rites of passage - a case study of Kisii and Kuria districts
Feed the Minds, 2011This study seeks to better understand female gential mutilation (FGM) as it is practised by the Kuria and Kisii communities in Kenya, in order to enable agencies working there to devise more effective interventions encouraging the abandonment of FGM.Pages