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

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Ivana Sekol and David P Farrington - Journal of Social Work,

This research examined psychological and background correlates of bullying in adolescent residential care. Young people aged 11–21 (N = 601) from 22 residential institutions in Croatia completed an anonymous self-reported bullying questionnaire, the Basic Empathy Scale, the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale and the Big Five Personality Inventory.

Udayan Care,

The ICEB Editorial Board invites submission of abstracts (500 words or less) on topics relating to research and exploration of work with institutionalised children and with children in other alternative modes of care. 

Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Victor Cebotari, Valentina Mazzucato, Melissa Siegel - Child Indicators Research,

This study empirically measures the perceptions towards maternal and paternal migration of male and female children who stay behind in Ghana.

Edited by Benjamin Davis, Sudhanshu Handa, Nicola Hypher, Natalia Winder Rossi, Paul Winters, and Jennifer Yablonski – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The United Nations Children’s Fund, and Oxford University Press,

This book published jointly by FAO, UNICEF, and Oxford University Press presents the findings from evaluations of the Transfer Project, a cash transfer project undertaken in the following sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.  It concludes that cash transfers are becoming a key means for social protection in developing countries. 

Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

The Post and Courier,

This opinion piece from the Post and Courier, a South-Carolina, USA-based periodical, highlights the need to better regulate “re-homing” practices in South Carolina. “Re-homing” is the process by which adoptive parents seek to relinquish their adopted children and find new guardians who will take those children in. 

Mercy Shoko & Latifat Ibisomi - Child Indicators Research,

This study explores the relationship between orphanhood prevalence, living arrangements and orphanhood reporting. 

Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.