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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This presentation was given at the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005.

This presentation was given at the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005.

This presentation was given at the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005.

Mateo Naiveli, Manager Residential Services and Juvenile Justice - Ministry of Women, Social Welfare and Poverty Alleviation,

This presentation was given at the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005. It provides an overview of the situation of children without parental care, or primary caregivers, in Fiji and the child welfare system in the country.

Ministry of Civil Affairs, China,

This presentation was given at the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005. It provides an overview of the situation for children without parental care in China, the legal framework for child protection in the country, and the social welfare institutions that support children's care.

This presentation, delivered at the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005, provides an outline of alternative care in the Philippines.

This presentation, delivered at the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005, provides an outline of alternative care in the Philippines. 

Katharine Houreld - Red Orbit,

"Many rogue orphanages are 'recruiting' Liberian children from their families and keeping them in appalling conditions in order to increase the aid they receive," according to this article from Red Orbit.

Nick Richardson, Leah Bromfield, and Daryl Higgins - National Child Protection Clearinghouse,

The aim of this report was to examine the recruitment, retention, training, assessment and support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people caring for children removed from their parents.

This presentation, delivered at an Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005, provides an outline of alternative care in Laos.