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  Female genital mutilation practices in Kenya: the role of alternative rites of passage - a case study of Kisii and Kuria districts

  Feed the Minds, 2011

  This 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.
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  A comparison of supply chains for school food: exploring operational trade-offs across implementation models

  Home Grown School Feeding, 2012

  School feeding is a complex form of intervention that is delivered in various, context-specific models or configurations. This paper indicates that an increasing need for support and understanding of the different models and modalities has been expressed by governments to aid the design of school feeding programs.
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  New technologies for improving old public security challenges in Nairobi

  Igarape Institute, 2014

  This paper maps out the digital environment shaping public security in selected informal settlements of Nairobi. In particular, the paper considers the diverse ways in which information communication technologies (ICTs) are being adopted by Kenyan police in informal settlements.
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  The underside of political settlements: violence in Egypt and Kenya

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

    Understanding political settlements is important for addressing and mitigating violence. This policy briefing is based on case studies from Egypt and Kenya which confirm that political settlements that only focus on formal actors and spaces at the national level are crucially flawed.
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  Assessing drought displacement risk for Kenyan, Ethiopian and Somali pastoralists

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2014

  This study represents an initial attempt to assess patterns of displacement related to droughts in selected countries of the Horn of Africa, specifically the border regions of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
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  Perceptions of health stakeholders on task shifting and motivation of community health workers in different socio demographic contexts in Kenya (nomadic, peri-urban and rural agrarian)

  2014

  The shortage of health professionals in low income countries is recognized as a crisis. Community health workers are part of a “task-shift” strategy to address this crisis. Task shifting in this paper refers to the delegation of tasks from health professionals to lay, trained volunteers.
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  Roots and routes of political violence in Kenya’s civil and political society: A case study of Marsabit County

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  Struggles to influence the balance of power and the distribution of economic resources in Kenya have a long history of violence: national and local, actual and threatened, physical and psychological.
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  A conceptual flash flood early warning system for Africa, based on terrestrial microwave links and flash flood guidance

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2014

  This journal article describes a conceptual flash flood early warning system for developing countries, with a particular focus on the system that is currently being developed for Kenya.
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  The Solar Energy Centre: an approach to village scale power supply . The Solar Transition pilot project in Kenya

  University of Oslo, 2014

  Access to electricity has a positive impact on a wide range of factors influencing rural communities, from improved health, to access to communication and information, to better educational facilities, economic prosperity and improved standard of living.
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  Safe Haven. Sheltering Displaced Persons from Sexual and Gender-Based Violence. Comparative Report.

  Human Rights Centre, University of California, 2013

  Across the globe, rape and sexual torture are committed during periods of armed conflict or natural disaster. However, the risk of sexual and gender-based violence continues for many even once they have fled to a refugee or internal displacement camp. Providing protection in these insecure settings, where resources are scarce, can be tremendously challenging.

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