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Kenya School Fires: Who’s Responsible?

Strikes, political demonstrations, and industrial actions by workers are not a foreign phenomenon in Kenya.

Bench Marking Policies and Strategies for Healthier Food Environments

Africa is experiencing a nutritional transition. Dietary patterns are changing as globalization contributes to food environments that are teeming with tempting but unhealthy choices that

Countdown 2030 Analysis Workshop in Eastern and Southern Africa

The Countdown to 2030 regional initiative for Eastern and Southern Africa convened its second data analysis workshop in Naivasha, Kenya, July 9-13. In total, 37

Annual Report- 2017

Message from the Executive Director In mid-2016, we initiated a consultative process with all staff to answer what on the surface seemed like a simple

Why Funding Alone Can’t Shake up Kenya’s School Transition Rate

Via The Conversation Students in a Nairobi slum school. There are more than monetary barriers for parents from poor neighbourhoods. EPA/Dai Kurokawa Ten years ago

On World Population Day, a Plea for a $9 Commitment to Family Planning

Just US$9 would cover the annual costs of fully meeting the need for modern contraception, safe abortion, and maternal and newborn care in developing regions,

African Universities Are Ignoring a Rich, Invaluable Resource: Their Alumni

Universities across Africa are sitting on – and ignoring – a potential gold mine: their graduates. Research from the global North, where tracking and keeping

Why Maasai Women and Their Children Go Hungry

Via The Conversation Food and nutrition security exists when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy

Healthy Communities in Western Kenya: From Research to Practice

What do you get when you bring together high-level county officials from Western Kenya? An opportunity to shift one’s mind set on where county governments

Lies We Tell Ourselves: Urban Advantage

In the field of international development, there are a number of fallacies circulating, or, to speak bluntly, let’s call them lies. The so-called urban advantage

Creating Paths as They Go: Nakuru and Kampala Make Poop Matter

Sanitation comes third to Water and Hygiene where targeted funding and interventions in the WASH (Water, Sanitation, Hygiene) sector are concerned. This is also evident

Who is Responsible for Nurturing a Reading Culture Among Our Children?

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him.” Maya Angelou