Download or read book Basic Report on Well being in Kenya written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Basic Report on Well being in Kenya written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Constituency Report on Well being in Kenya written by Godfrey Ndeng'e and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Well being in Kenya written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Baseline review and ecosystem services assessment of the Tana River Basin Kenya written by Baker, Tracy and published by International Water Management Institute (IWMI). This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘WISE-UP to climate’ project aims to demonstrate the value of natural infrastructure as a ‘nature-based solution’ for climate change adaptation and sustainable development. Within the Tana River Basin, both natural and built infrastructure provide livelihood benefits for people. Understanding the interrelationships between the two types of infrastructure is a prerequisite for sustainable water resources development and management. This is particularly true as pressures on water resources intensify and the impacts of climate change increase. This report provides an overview of the biophysical characteristics, ecosystem services and links to livelihoods within the basin.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics written by Nic Cheeseman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya is one of the most politically dynamic and influential countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Today, it is known in equal measure as a country that has experienced great highs and tragic lows. In the 1960s and 1970s, Kenya was seen as a ''success story" of development in the periphery, and also led the way in terms of democratic breakthroughs in 2010 when a new constitution devolved power and placed new constraints on the president. However, the country has also made international headlines for the kind of political instability that occurs when electoral violence is expressed along ethnic lines, such as during the "Kenya crisis" of 2007/08 when over 1,000 people lost their lives and almost 700,000 were displaced. The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics explains these developments and many more, drawing together 50 specially commissioned chapters by leading researchers. The chapters they have contributed address a range of essential topics including the legacy of colonial rule, ethnicity, land politics, devolution, the constitution, elections, democracy, foreign aid, the informal economy, civil society, human rights, the International Criminal Court, the growing influence of China, economic policy, electoral violence, and the impact of mobile phone technology. In addition to covering some of the most important debates about Kenyan politics, the volume provides an insightful overview of Kenyan history from 1930 to the present day and features a set of chapters that review the impact of devolution on regional politics in every part of the country.

Download or read book Growth and Poverty in Sub Saharan Africa written by Channing Arndt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the economic growth renaissance in sub-Saharan Africa is widely recognized, much less is known about progress in living conditions. This book comprehensively evaluates trends in living conditions in 16 major sub-Saharan African countries, corresponding to nearly 75% of the total population. A striking diversity of experience emerges. While monetary indicators improved in many countries, others are yet to succeed in channeling the benefits of economic growth into the pockets of the poor. Some countries experienced little economic growth, and saw little material progress for the poor. At the same time, the large majority of countries have made impressive progress in key non-monetary indicators of wellbeing. Overall, the African growth renaissance earns two cheers, but not three. While gains in macroeconomic and political stability are real, they are also fragile. Growth on a per capita basis is much better than in the 1980s and 1990s, yet not rapid compared with other developing regions. Importantly from a pan-African perspective, key economies-particularly Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa-are not among the better performers. Looking forward, realistic expectations are required. The development process is, almost always, a long hard slog. Nevertheless, real and durable factors appear to be at play on the sub-continent with positive implications for growth and poverty reduction in future.

Download or read book New Challenges and Future Perspectives in Nutrition and Sustainable Diets in Africa written by Hettie Carina Schönfeldt and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-05-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is confronted with the triple burden of malnutrition; it is also faced with the triple challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment. In many African countries, large proportions of the population rely on agriculture not only for their food - but also for their livelihoods. A transformed agricultural and food system is thus a necessary condition for addressing this double-triple challenge. Additionally, post harvest and food waste and losses reduce the availability of sufficient quantities of safe, edible and preferable foods. At least one third of food produced at farm level is lost due to inappropriate storage, infrastructure and agro-processing technologies in developing countries; and one third of food purchased is wasted at household and retail level.

Download or read book The Political Economy of Development in Kenya written by Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya is a country of geopolitical and economic importance in East Africa. It shares borders with unstable states such as Somalia and Sudan while being a hub for trade, communication, finance, and transportation across the region. Although relatively stable since its independence in 1963, the country still faces poverty, inequality, and corruption. In addition, the contested election of 2007 led to severe ethnic strife that tested its political stability, leading to a new constitution in 2010. This unique survey by a leading expert on the region provides a critical analysis of the socio-economic development in Kenya from a political economy perspective. It highlights Kenya's transition from being a centralized state to having a clear separation of powers and analyzes key issues such as economic growth, urbanization, corruption, and reform. The book identifies Kenya's key socio-development problems and offers solutions to improve both governance and economic performance, making it an essential resource to researchers, academics, and policy makers working on development issues and African politics.

Download or read book Measuring Poverty around the World written by Anthony B. Atkinson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality—a critically important examination of poverty around the world In this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world’s great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe? The persistence of poverty—in rich and poor countries alike—is one of the most serious problems facing humanity. Better measurement of poverty is essential for raising awareness, motivating action, designing good policy, gauging progress, and holding political leaders accountable for meeting targets. To help make this possible, Atkinson provides a critically important examination of how poverty is—and should be—measured. Bringing together evidence about the nature and extent of poverty across the world and including case studies of sixty countries, Atkinson addresses both financial poverty and other indicators of deprivation. He starts from first principles about the meaning of poverty, translates these into concrete measures, and analyzes the data to which the measures can be applied. Crucially, he integrates international organizations’ measurements of poverty with countries’ own national analyses. Atkinson died before he was able to complete the book, but at his request it was edited for publication by two of his colleagues, John Micklewright and Andrea Brandolini. In addition, François Bourguignon and Nicholas Stern provide afterwords that address key issues from the unfinished chapters: how poverty relates to growth, inequality, and climate change. The result is an essential contribution to efforts to alleviate poverty around the world.

Download or read book Food systems transformation in Kenya Lessons from the past and policy options for the future Loading Files Full Book 7 78 MB pdf Chapters List 73 KB pdf Authors Breisinger Clemens Keenan Michael Mbuthia Juneweenex Njuki Jemimah Date Issued 2023 12 20 Language en Type Book Review Status Peer Review Access Rights Open Access Open Access Usage Rights CC BY 4 0 Metadata Sha written by Breisinger, Clemens and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new Kenyan government faces a complex domestic and global environment, and it is widely expected to address key food and agricultural challenges with a new set of policies and programs. This policy brief presents key recommendations from a forthcoming book, Food Systems Transformation in Kenya: Lessons from the Past and Policy Options for the Future, which provides research-based “food for thought and action” to support the Kenyan government’s efforts to improve food security.

Download or read book Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis written by Alejandro Grimson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamics of the "middle-class global rebellion" born of the frustration at declining living standards. Addressing narratives constructed by different social and political agents and groups, it examines contexts of social crisis in Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, understanding the middle classes as a set of complex and conflicting political relationships. With attention to the manner in which people create "situated habits", consolidating new expectations and desires through a concrete biography, it analyzes continuities and changes in classed self-perceptions based on performative use. With new perspectives, including historical and intersectional approaches, Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis transcends disciplinary boundaries to explore the hybridity of research methods and techniques and challenge established analytical frameworks. It will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in class and questions of class identity.

Download or read book Exploring Health and Wellbeing in a Low to Middle Income Country written by Elizabeth Onyango and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent past has witnessed an increased interest in the concept of wellbeing both in academia and public policy. Governments and international organizations have developed a policy agenda with the broad goal of improving individual and collective wellbeing; positioning it as the desired outcome of, and the benchmark with which to evaluate social and economic progress, and the effectiveness of governments and their policies. The majority of such efforts have been conducted in Euro-American nations with limited efforts in developing countries. In the low-to-middle income countries where such efforts exist, they are based on experiences and indicators from the high-income western countries. As such, limited initiatives that aim to understand how wellbeing is conceptualized in time and place exist in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs) as societal progress in these resource-constrained areas are persistently assessed by econometric measures such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP). To address this gap, the present thesis explored indicators for constructing a healthy population index, an important domain of societal wellbeing in the context of LMICs. As part of the global index of wellbeing project, this thesis set out to understand how Kenyans socially construct their health and wellbeing across place, socio-demographic characteristics, and over their life-course. Using an explorative study design, the thesis employs the social constructionists' perspectives and the eco-social theory to answer three specific research questions. First, the thesis responds to the question, what are the perceptions, meanings and determinants of societal health and wellbeing that matter most to Kenyans and are there differences and similarities by gender and region? Second, how do the youth (15-24 years), the middle-aged (25-49) and the seniors (≥50 years) in Kenya socially construct their health and wellbeing? Third and lastly, what are the indicators of a healthy population domain of wellbeing that matter in the context of Kenya and are there potential secondary data sets that could be used to evaluate progress in health over the past years and into the future? In answering these questions, this thesis adopted qualitative research methodologies - including in-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs). The IDIs with representatives of youth groups (male and female), women, and men groups, representatives of Community-Based Organizations (CBO), and with policy makers (i.e., Member of County Assembly) were conducted to explore their work and lived experiences of health and wellbeing in their respective communities. Focus group discussions (FGDs) with lay participants were conducted to understand their perceptions, meanings, determinants and the social construction of societal health and wellbeing and to determine similarities and differences by gender and across place. The thesis also highlights the indicators of the healthy population domain that matter to Kenyans as revealed in the collected data and suggest potential data sources for evaluating progress. Using the constructs of embodiment and pathways of embodiment of the eco-social theory, the thesis provides a framework with which to map population health indicators for wellbeing assessment in the context of LMICs. The social constructionists' viewpoint on the other hand, is employed in this thesis to explore the social production of knowledge about societal health and wellbeing. The findings reveal that concepts of healthy community and a good life (a proxy of wellbeing) are used interchangeably and are defined using similar concepts. Additionally, having a healthy community and a good life is shown to be dependent on the ability of the community to meet the basic needs for all its members. Specifically, six themes emerge as critical descriptors of a healthy community and a good life in Kenya: a) community health status and quality of healthcare; b) economic and living standard factors; c) social relationships; d) the state of the environment; e) political and governance issues; and f) cultural and societal values, beliefs, norms and practices which influence perceptions and meanings of population health and wellbeing. These contextual factors and the individual and immediate factors interact to create social hierarchies based on gender, age, social class, and regional power imbalances which limit accessibility to resources to certain groups of people. For example, the findings show that gender-based violence (GBV) is a key social determinant of health which disproportionally affects women because of the preexisting cultural structures that act to disempower them. Moreover, the findings reveal that the politics and governance structures - including real engagement in political decision-making, tribalism, corruption and electoral violence are important factors that propagate health inequalities in communities, thus influencing perceptions and meanings of health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the results of this thesis reveal that across their life-course, Kenyans adopt unique social constructs to explain their lived experiences of health and wellbeing. The youth (15-24 years) for example, consider themselves as - "bleeding bodies", "untrustworthy bodies", "culturally disadvantaged bodies" and "bodies at risk". The middle-aged (25-49 years), on the other hand, construct health and wellbeing around issues of domestic violence, whereas the seniors (≥50 years) narrate how they embody distress associated with care for their children and grandchildren in contexts characterized by economic poverty and socio-cultural erosion. According to the participants' narratives, the indicators for the healthy population domain range from health outcome indicators such as the prevalence and incidence rates for infectious diseases (e.g. HIV and the opportunistic diseases), non-communicable diseases (e.g. cancer, hypertension, diabetes and unintentional injuries), mortality rates as well as accessibility, effectiveness and acceptability of healthcare services, lifestyle and behavior, and indicators of public health programs. Theoretically, this study provides the wellbeing literature with a rudimentary framework premised on the social constructionists' perspectives and the eco-social theory for understanding the healthy population indicators that matter in LMICs. In so doing, it highlights socially, geographically and culturally relevant indicators thus allowing for evidence-based policy and policy evaluation across time and space. For example, this research reveals that even though constructs around community health status and quality of healthcare services remain frequent descriptors of the health and wellbeing of populations, social and cultural inclusion, issues such as GBV, socio-cultural erosion and care responsibilities are some aspects of the community that need to be included in evaluation of progress in health and quality of life. This information is important in formulation of relevant health policies and interventions.

Download or read book Gimme shelter Social distancing and income support in times of pandemic written by Aminjonov, Ulugbek and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assets Livelihoods and Social Policy written by Anis A. Dani and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the lack of adequate universal social welfare for those unable to find jobs in the salaried formal sector, the livelihoods and well-being of most poor people depends heavily on their asset base. This includes their ability to access and accumulate assets, obtain decent returns from these assets, and use their asset base to manage risks. 'Assets, Livelihoods, and Social Policy' discusses the diverse strategies adopted by people in different contexts to accumulate assets through migration, housing investments, natural resources management, and informal businesses. An asset-based social policy can strengthen asset accumulation strategies as well as help the poor overcome the constraints of unfavorable institutional environments. To a considerable extent, asset accumulation strategies depend on the agency exercised by people themselves through individual or collective action. At the same time, the status of policies and institutions can enable or hinder these strategies and affect livelihood outcomes. In synthesis, the case studies lead to the differentiation among three different types of policies: - policies that affect outcomes by directly influencing access to assets by the poor such as land, housing, natural resources, or credit. - policies and public investments that change the nature of returns on assets such as investments in rural roads, agricultural inputs, and market development. - policies that transform the value of assets held by the poor by virtue of administrative decisions that increase or reduce value such as re-classification of land from arable or pasture to protected lands, land use regulations affecting resource use, or modification in regulations governing labor rights or migration. The chapters, originally commissioned to re-examine major gaps in knowledge and development practice ten years after the Copenhagen Summit on Social Development, are authored by leading scholars from economics, anthropology, sociology, geography, and development studies. This book is part of a new series, New Frontiers in Social Policy, which examines issues and approaches to extend the boundaries of social policy beyond conventional social services toward policies and institutions that improve equality of opportunity and social justice in developing countries. Other titles in the series include Inclusive States: Social Policy and Structural Inequalities, and Institutional Pathways to Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps.

Download or read book Survival of the Fittest Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa written by Mary Kirkbride and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2008 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Out of Poverty Comparative Poverty Reduction Strategies in Eastern and Southern Africa written by Flora Lucas Kessy and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the poverty strategies of three Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, and three non-HIPCs, Botswana, Kenya and Namibia. Considers the main economic, social and political factors influencing poverty generation and/or reduction during the period 1990-2006.