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Identifying and tackling the social determinants of child malnutrition in urban informal settlements and slums: a cross national review of the evidence for action
Institute of Education, University of London, 2011Urbanisation can bring many benefits the rate of change but in many developing countries the rate of change has been so fast and so dramatic that many cities have been unable to cope.DocumentTiming and sequencing of events marking the transition to adulthood in two informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2011Young people living in poor urban informal settlements face unique challenges as they transition to adulthood.DocumentChild growth in urban deprived settings: does household poverty status matter? At which stage of child development?
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012This 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.DocumentUrbanization and education in East Africa
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012The 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.DocumentStatus report on the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents living in urban slums in Kenya
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2013In Kenya, adolescents make up a considerable proportion of urban populations, and many of them live in the numerous informal settlements—or slums—in Nairobi.