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  Africa’s youth employment challenge: new perspectives | IDS Bulletin Vol 48, No 3

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017

  Youth and employment concepts are not new to development discourse in sub-Saharan Africa but over the last decade interest has increased dramatically, becoming a much more important focus for policy, intervention and research throughout the continent (and globally).
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  Provision of social protection services by non-state actors in Nyanza Region Kenya : assessing women empowerment

  Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, 2015

  In Kenya, women are more likely than men to suffer poverty and its associated vulnerabilities, mainly because they are excluded from decision-making on economic issues, they have limited access to the factors of production, particularly land, and traditional customs allocate them undervalued roles and constrain their voice and mobility.
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  Pro-Poor Access to Green Electricity in Kenya

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  Is Kenya on track to follow an electrification strategy that is green and pro-poor? What are the main challenges to following this path? The two questions guiding this study are particularly relevant in a country with exceptional renewable energy resources, but where 80 per cent of the population lacks access to electricity and 50 per cent lives in poverty.
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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, 2011

  Urbanisation 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.
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  Social Protection for the elderly as a development strategy: a case study of Kenya's old persons cash transfer programme

  Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (IESE), 2016

  Kenya has made progressive investments in social protection forthe ageing, providing lessons and existing opportunities for similar programmes. In Kenya, there has been a paradigm shift from universal social protection schemes targeted at formal employees to inclusive schemes including both formal and informal sectors, corporations and individuals.
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  Feminist Africa e-spaces:e-politics

  African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2013

  Feminist Africa (FA) is a continental gender studies journal that provides a platform for intellectual and activist research, dialogue and strategy. Currently based in Cape Town, South Africa, FA is guided by a profound commitment to transforming gender hierarchies in Africa, and seeks to redress injustice and inequality in its content and design.
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  How does a national poverty programme influence sexual debut among Kenyan adolescents?

  Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2016

  Cash transfer programmes have recently emerged as promising interventions for HIV prevention among adolescents in Africa. However, the precise mechanisms through which risk reduction occurs are not well understood.
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  Empowering drylands women

  Drylands Development Centre, UNDP, 2014

  The Integrated Drylands Development Programme (IDDP) is a global UNDP initiative to promote sustainable development in the drylands, and advance the implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. This topic brief highlights the important role that gender plays in this context of sustainable development, in particular the role of women in the Arab States and Africa.
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  Age and gender effects on time discounting in a large scale cash transfer programme

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  Inter-temporal choice represents one of the most fascinating topics in economics. Understanding its determinants can provide vital in sight into decisions ranging from savings and financial investment to smoking, obesity and human capital accumulation.
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  Carbon intensification and poverty reduction in Kenya: lessons from the Kenya agricultural carbon project

  2012

  This paper focuses on the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project, implemented by the NGO Vi Agroforestry, which is designing and implementing climate finance projects in the agricultural sector.

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