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APHRC Corporate Onbording
(APHRC, 2013-05)The video highlights APHRC and our culture. How we use African solutions to solve African problems. It also shows how we elevate African voices and solutions. -
2014 Annual Report Championing Evidence Use Changing Lives
(APHRC, 2014-05)2014, the halfway mark of our 2012-2016 Strategic Plan, was a time for taking stock and reenergizing our efforts towards what we set out to achieve three years ago. We maintained our focus on the Center’s three core ... -
Effects of Fee-Funding and School-Based Management Training on Schooling Outcomes: Impact Evaluation Report
(APHRC, 2015-12)This report describes the final findings of the external evaluation of the Supporting Complementary Schools in Equitable Education (SUCSEED) intervention in two Nairobi informal settlements of Mukuru and Korogocho. The ... -
Strategic Plan 2017-2021
(APHRC, 2017-07)The APHRC 2017-2021 Strategic Plan outlines a bold agenda predicated on four strategic objectives, and supported by four cross-cutting guiding principles that aim to maximize our impact. They reflect our ambition to be ... -
Impact Evaluation of Tayari School Readiness Program in Kenya: Endline Report Long Version
(APHRC, 2018-12)This report describes the endline findings of an external evaluation of the Tayari preschool program. Tayari is an early childhood development and education (ECDE) pilot intervention in Kenya funded by the Children’s Investment ... -
Healthy Food Environment Policy Index Country Scorecards and Priority Recommendations for Action in Kenya
(APHRC, 2019-03)Background Like other African countries, Kenya is experiencing rapid urbanization, accompanied by increasing levels of obesity and other diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs); with higher levels among urban ... -
The Potential of the Baby-Friendly Community Initiative to Improve Early Child Development Outcomes and the Feasibility of Integrating Care for Child Development into the Package
(APHRC, 2019-04)The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) model, was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to globally promote optimum breastfeeding in maternity wards in line with the International Code of Marketing ... -
Dietary Transitions in Kenyan Cities: Leveraging Evidence for Intervention and Policy to Prevent Diet-related Non-Communicable Diseases
(APHRC, 2019-05)Kenya is experiencing a nutrition transition with some evidence of changes in dietary habits in urban areas. As a consequence, obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases (DR-NCDs) are rapidly increasing and ... -
Leaving no Woman or Child Behind: Addressing Health Inequalities in Zambia
(APHRC, 2019-07)Zambia remains one of the countries in the sub-Sahran region with the highest maternal and child mortality ratios. Although Zambia has made progress in reducing maternal deaths from the estimated 729 per 100,000 live ... -
The interplay of top-down and bottom-up strategies to improve learning outcomes.
(APHRC, 2020)Top-down, bottom-up, and incremental approaches are usually applied to the implementation of policies (DarlingHammond, 2000). Top-down strategies refer to a more linear, unitary and rational process where decisions are ... -
Insights from Kenya: How to keep children from poorer homes in School. Nairobi: Conversation Africa.
(The Conversation, 2020)It is widely recognised that education is a public good, which should be accessed by all, as a human right - irrespective of someone’s gender and socioeconomic or disability status. It is a goal that’s enshrined in the fourth ... -
Explaining educational disparities in Diourbel and Kaffrine.
(JSTOR, 2020)In Senegal, adolescents aged between 10 and 19 years, and young adults aged 20-24 represent 22.5% and 9% of the general population respectively (ANSD, RGPHAE 2013). Senegal is one of five countries globally with the lowest ... -
Advancing Learning Outcomes and Leadership Skills among Children Living in Informal Settlements of Nairobi through Community Participation Endline Report:
(APHRC, 2020)Education has always been a key priority area for all development agendas and as such is a crucial tenet of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Indeed, education is considered one of the most significant human ... -
Annual Performance Report 2020: Navigating the New Normal
(APHRC, 2020)In preparing the 2020 annual report, we reflected on a year that was like no other. This report therefore highlights, not just the Center’s achievements but our experience navigating troubled waters. Despite the ... -
The State of Education and Implications of SRHR on the Education of Adolescent Girls in Senegal.
(APHRC, 2020)In Senegal, adolescents aged between 10 and 19 years, and young adults aged 20-24 represent 22.5% and 9% of the general population respectively (ANSD, RGPHAE 2013). Senegal is one of five countries globally with the lowest ... -
Equity and inclusion: Towards an accelerated action to enhance learning in East Africa (being designed). Briefing Paper. Nairobi: APHRC
(APHRC, 2020)Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania are signatories to the national laws, regional and international conventions which reassert the role of the State to ensure the rights of children, particularly in education, are protected and ... -
Advancing Learning Outcomes for Transformational Change: Lessons Learnt from Six Year Implementation and Evaluation of An Education Program in Nairobi
(APHRC, 2020-01)Education is often seen as the key to developing an economically successful society (Deng & Gopinathan, 2016). Evidence suggests that there is a growing recognition of the need for education systems to prepare children ... -
Afya Kwa Ukoo: Engaging Cultural Institutions and Culturally-Sensitive Facility-Based Delivery on Maternal and Newborn Health Service Utilization in Garissa
(APHRC, 2020-01)Governments across the globe have committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by the year 2030, by putting in place systems that safeguard the well-being of all. Of note are Articles 3.1 and 3.2 (under ... -
APHRC Newsletter: January 2020 Edition
(APHRC, 2020-01)Reflection and hope as APHRC opens the doors to Ulwazi Place. Accelerating the promise: It also highlights the international conference on population and development. Then Meet Daniel Laster, APHRC’s new Board ... -
Lagging Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trends and Patterns in Selected Countries
(APHRC, 2020-03)The demographic transition— a shift from high fertility and mortality to low fertility and mortality— in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) does not reflect trends in other parts of the world. The process has been both irregular ...
