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Participatory methodology: Rapid Care Analysis
Oxfam, 2013Although care is at heart a public good, responsibility for unpaid care work falls predominantly on women, contributing to their extreme poverty and social exclusion.DocumentThe health of women and girls in urban areas with a focus on Kenya and South Africa: a review
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014This thematic review examines the literature focuses on a range of health challenges faced in particular by women and girls living in low-income urban settlements in expanding cities in Kenya and South Africa.DocumentTurning information into empowerment: strengthening gender and energy networking in Africa
ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2008Mainstream energy policies fail to apply a gender-sensitive approach, and have largely ignored the crucial roles that rural women play in energy systems. This report follows a two and a half year-long project: Turning Information into Empowerment: Strengthening Gender and Energy Networking in Africa (TIE-ENERGIA).DocumentMaking the urban poor safer: lessons from Nairobi and Maharashtra
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013Mumbai and Nairobi have acutely unequal urban development, with respectively 40 per cent and 60 per cent of their urban population living in slums. The most impoverished neighbourhoods are characterised by severe lack of service provision and poor access to employment opportunities.DocumentA demographic dividend for Sub - Saharan Africa: Source, magnitude, and realization
Program on the Global Demography of Aging, 2013The population of is growing more rapidly than that in any other region of the world. The United Nations (UN) Population Division medium-fertility scenario projects that Sub-Saharan Africa’s population will more than double in less than four decades, from 901 million today to 2.07 billion in 2050.DocumentMissing the point: violence reduction and policy misadventures in Nairobi's poor neighbourhoods
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013Violence and crime are part of everyday life in many of Nairobi’s poor urban neighbourhoods. While wealthier enclaves of the city are heavily guarded by private security firms, violence and protection provided through criminal organisations and vigilante groups has become commonplace in the poor neighbourhoods.DocumentClimate Change Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Garissa County, Kenya
CARE International, 2013In Garissa County, the impacts of climate change are already being felt by communities, who are seeking ways to adapt to the changes and to build resilient livelihoods. These changes are combined with other environmental, economic and political factors to create a situation of increasing vulnerability for poor and marginalized households.DocumentPushed to the limit: Evidence of climate change-related loss and damage when people face constraints and limits to adaptation
United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2013Research report assessing climate change related loss and damage and evidence of subsequent societal impacts.DocumentMaking the law count: a five country judicial audit
Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2009This document gives an overview of ACORD’s audit of the legal frameworks around sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, DRC and Burundi. In each of these countries the audit assessed: • How and where the legal frameworks locate SGBV • How judicial officers interpret the law on SGBVDocumentFinal report. FOKUS: External evaluation of the East African Program for the Empowerment of Grassroot Women (EAGWEN).
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2013Norwegian Women and Family Association (NWF) has a history of supporting organisations whose main focus is on vulnerable groups.Pages