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Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty in Kenya

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  Child growth in urban deprived settings: does household poverty status matter? At which stage of child development?

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012

  This paper uses longitudinal data from two informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya to examine patterns of child growth and how these are affected by four different dimensions of poverty at the household level namely, expenditures poverty, assets poverty, food poverty, and subjective poverty.
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  Urbanization and education in East Africa

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012

  The objective of this book is to pull together contributions on how education provision is affected by the rapid urbanization and to highlight the practice and policy gaps in the education of those who live in the urban areas.
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  Status report on the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents living in urban slums in Kenya

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2013

  In Kenya, adolescents make up a considerable proportion of urban populations, and many of them live in the numerous informal settlements—or slums—in Nairobi.
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  Coping strategies among urban poor: evidence from Nairobi, Kenya

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014

  In Kenya, it is estimated that 60 to 80% of urban residents live in slum or slum-like conditions. This study investigates expenditures patterns of slum dwellers in Nairobi, their coping strategies and the determinants of those coping strategies.
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  Urban health in Kenya - Key findings: the 2000 nairobi cross-sectional slum survey

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012

  In the year 2000, APHRC conducted the first Nairobi Cross-Sectional Slum Survey that examined health profiles of urban slum residents comparing them with those of rural residents in Kenya.
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  Valuing and compensating caregivers for their contributions to community health and development in the context of HIV and AIDS: an agenda for action

  Huairou Commission, 2010

  This paper concerns the valuation and compensation of caregivers for their ongoing contribution to community health and development in the context of HIV and AIDS.
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  Home-Based Care Alliance policy brief: debunking myths

  Home-Based Care Alliance, 2013

  The Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA) represents more than 30,000 caregivers organised into multi-district HBCAs in twelve African countries, caring for over 200,000 neighbours and friends, and with a history of organising around HIV/AIDS and its effects.
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  Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA)
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  Social protection for older Kenyans: options for implementing the National Social Protection Policy

  HelpAge International, 2012

  There has been growing recognition in Kenya in recent years that social protection is essential for achieving poverty reduction and inclusive growth.
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  Making Care Visible: Women’s unpaid care work in Nepal, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya

  ActionAid International, 2013

  Collecting data on all women’s work, both paid and unpaid, is critical to improving the design of social policies and the allocation of resources to address poverty and inequality. This report documents Action Aid's multi-country programme on women's unpaid care work in Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Uganda.

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