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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Children's Rights Director for England,

Report is based on a survey of 316 children and discussions with a further 46 children on their experiences as children in care.

International Social Service and SOS-Kinderdorf International,

Contains facts regarding children in alternative care globally as well as suggested lobbying activities for the promotion and adoption of the UN Guidelines on Alternative Care

UNITE for Children UNITE Against AIDS,

Short video illustrating the ways social protection safeguards children and their families – including those affected by AIDS – at every level from communities to entire countries and beyond.

DFID, Help Age, Hope and Homes for Children, IDS, ILO, ODI, Save the Children UK, UNDP, UNICEF and World Bank.,

Joint statement among UN agencies and NGO partners to build greater consensus on the importance of child-sensitive social protection.

Government of Zambia,

This Act provides for the co-ordination and registration of non-governmental organisations in Zambia.

Better Care Network,
Jody Heymann and Rachel Kidman - AIDS Care,

This study uses recent data from published studies in sub-Saharan Africa to illustrate deficits and document community responses for children who have lost parents to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Comité des droits de l’enfant,

Le droit de l’enfant d’être entendu

Clare O'Brien and Tata Chanturidze ,

This report assesses progress in the reform of child welfare services in Georgia between 1999 and 2009.

Stephen Ucembe,

This report is the result of a workshop held with a group of young care-leavers drawn from ten different charitable children’s institutions or rehabilitation centres and of a questionnaire carried out on the young care-leavers.