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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UNICEF Innocenti,

L'article 20 de la CDE souligne que l’obligation de garantir la protection adéquate de l’enfant revient à l’Etat. Un grand nombre des pays examinés ont pris des mesures pour rendre leur législation conforme à ces principes.

Kingdom of Cambodia,

This document includes the Minimum Standards on Alternative Care for Children set out by the Government of Cambodia, including both the Minimum Standards for Residential Care for Children and the Minimum Standards on Alternative Care for Children in the Community.

International Social Service,

Explores the principles of the Draft UN Guidelines governing the prevention of resort to alternative care and provides a short case study on successful programming

United Nations High Commission on Refugees,

Provides a formal mechanism to determine the best interests of the child as a mechanism within a child protection system

Glynis Clacherty,

A qualitative study of children living with grandmothers in the Nshamba area of northwestern Tanzania

Lacey Andrews Gale,

Examines the challenges posed in monitoring and ensuring child protection in informal and formal fostering in post-conflict areas.

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre,

A great change is coming over childhood in the world’s richest countries. Today’s rising generation is the first in which a majority is spending a large part of early childhood in some form of out-of-home child care. This Report Card discusses the opportunities and risks involved in the child care transition, and proposes internationally applicable benchmarks for early childhood care and education.

Shihning Chou, Kevin Browne & Melanie Kirkaldy,

Investigation of intercountry adoption agencies on the internet and their compliance with the UNCRC.

Shihning Chou and Kevin Browne,

Explores causal relationship between increased international adoption and increase in institutional care of children in Europe.

Helen C. Armstrong for Free the Slaves,

A manual for starting and improving rehabilitation and recovery services for freed slaves, including child victims of slavery, trafficking, the worst forms of child labor, and forced marriages.