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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CPC Learning Network and the International Institute for Child Rights and Development,

On September 24, 2015, the CPC Learning Network hosted a webinar about measuring the separation of children from their families in emergency settings.

Mary Mann - The Village Green,

Family Connections, a local non-profit organization in Essex county, New Jersey in the United States, has developed a program called Reunity House, which is designed to help permanently reunify children in foster care with their parents.

Stela Grigoras & Florence Martin - GSSWA Blog,

This post on the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance blog, by Stela Grigoras from Partnership for Every Child, Moldova, and Florence Martin, director of the Better Care Network, provides an overview of the situation of children's care in Moldova and ways that community level workers are engaged in helping to reform the care system.

CPC Learning Network,

The CPC Learning Network will host a webinar on the latest reports of the Measuring Separation in Emergencies (MSiE) project on Thursday, September 24, 2015 from 9am to 11am EDT.

Better Care Network and UNICEF,

This video gives an inside look at an assisted family setting in Ghana where children with disabilities live with their foster mothers. It highlights the increased risk of family separation faced by children with special needs and advocates for the provision of quality family-based care to children who cannot be with their parents or extended families.

QIC-AG,

The presentation slides outline the webinar entitled Child Welfare in the 21st Century: The Need for a Pre-and Post-Permanence Service Continuum, which discusses the direction of child welfare in the 21st Century. 

Child Trends and Social Trends Institute,

This annual report of the World Family Map Project shares the latest data on 16 indicators of family structure, family socioeconomics, family processes, and family culture in multiple countries as well as an original essay focusing on one important aspect of contemporary family life.

Human Rights Council Side Event,

Este evento paralelo del Consejo de Derechos Humanos incluyó presentaciones en separación familiar en los contextos africanos, asiáticos, europeos, y latinoamericanos.

Human Rights Council Side event,

This Human Rights Council Side event included presentations on family separation in the African, Asian, European, and Latin American contexts. 

Human Rights Council Side event,

This Human Rights Council Side event included presentations on family separation in the African, Asian, European, and Latin American contexts.