The present report seeks to analyze development trends in Kenya and understand the ways in which various groups in the country continue to be left behind. Analysis of the nationally-representative Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS) 2015/16 reveals that certain groups are consistently being left behind in Kenya, on account of income poverty status, gender, age, disability, area of residence, and intersecting inequalities.
The report explores how individuals and households are poor according to their resources, opportunities and choice, power and voice, and security. It contextualizes who is multidimensionally poor in an understanding of the political, socio-economic, environmental and conflict settings that affect life in the country today to get a sense of why these groups may continue to experience disadvantages on various fronts and often interlocking. The study also examine constraints and enablers of poverty reduction at a structural, contextual level and is accompanied by a related policy brief.
Authors: Vidya Diwakar and Andrew Shepherd
This policy and programming brief is designed to draw from the multi-dimensional poverty analysis (MDPA) research findings a set of actionable points for programming and for policy dialogue.
The present report seeks to analyze development trends in Kenya and understand the ways in which various groups in the country continue to be left behind.
The brief presents findings around health shocks and health as a resilience capacity from a series of 11 country studies on drivers of poverty dynamics in both Africa and Asia.
This study examines the relationship between natural hazard-related disasters and child and adolescent poverty in India and Kenya. It explores these connections through a lifecycle approach focusing on the incidence of child poverty and longer-term poverty dynamics and wellbeing.
The focus of this brief is on what those findings may mean for interventions and approaches in Kenya that aim to enable poor households to escape poverty and remain out of it.
The report investigates the resources (land, livestock, and assets), attributes (household composition and education level), and activities (including jobs and engagement in non-farm activities) of households that enable them to escape poverty sustainably and minimise the likelihood of returning to living in poverty again
This report and the policy brief were financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The report and the policy brief present the views of the authors, which are not necessarily those of Sida or the Embassy of Sweden in Nairobi.