Kenya

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 44.86 million
  • Population under 15: 42%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 62 years
  • Human Development Index: 145 out of 188
  • World Bank Status: Lower Middle Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 5.3%
  • Mean Household Composition: 3.9 members
  • Female-Headed Households: 32%
  • Early Marriage (% of girls married by 15 years): 29%

Sources: World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP HDR 2015, DHS 2014
Highlighted Documents
Kenya Country Brief on Children's Living Arrangements
Kenya Country Care Review

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A Series on Alternative Care: Foster Care
Udayan Care and UNICEF,

This booklet covers the latest legal and policy framework on Foster Care in India, which has been presented in an easy-to-understand style so that it can be used as an effective reference material by all stakeholders.

Together for Children: A Community's Journey
The Leher Team (Richa Nagaich, Tasha Koshi Kajol Menon, Nicole Rangel Menezes, and Nipa Bhansali),

In 2014, Leher partnered with Sarvo Prayas Sansthan (SPS) to develop and implement a community based preventive child protection initiative in the district of Madhubani in Bihar, India. This report presents the learning from that initiative.

Kinship Care: State of the Nation 2016
Agnes Gautier, Sarah Wellard and Ryan Workman - Grandparents Plus,

This report is based on the largest ever national survey of kinship carers. It explores the experience of kinship families, and draws comparison with findings from a 2010 Survey.

Labour rights for migrant workers: A child rights perspective
Destination Unknown, Draft version for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development,

This paper is the sixth of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

Interaction of international mechanisms of migrants’ rights protection: A child rights perspective
Destination Unknown, Draft version for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development,

This paper is the fifth of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

Rights of migrant women: A child rights perspective
Destination Unknown, Draft version for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development,

This paper is the fourth of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016). It examines specificities affecting children on the nove and other children affected by migration related to migrants stranded in distress.

Migrants stranded in distress: A child rights perspective
Destination Unknown, Draft version for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development,

This paper is the third of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

Engagement of diaspora and migrant associations: A child rights perspective
Destination Unknown, for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development,

This paper is the second of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

Leave no one behind: the first year of the SDGs for children on the move and other children affected by migration.
Destination Unknown for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the GFMD,

This paper is the first of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

Child Rights Bridging Papers – 2° edition
Destination Unknown, Draft version for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development,

These series of 6 papers are the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

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