Technical Paper: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Building the Evidence for Improved Infant and Young Child Complementary Feeding Practices Among the Urban Poor in Sub-Saharan Africa
(APHRC, 2020-03)Malnutrition is the leading cause of death among children under five years, yet its prevalence remains high (WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group, 2006). The joint child malnutrition estimates by UNICEF, WHO ... -
Data, Social Determinants, and Better Decision-Making for Health
(The 3-D Commission, 2021)In April 2020, The Rockefeller Foundation and Boston University School of Public Health launched the Commission on Health Determinants, Data, and Decision-Making (3-D Commission) with the aim of creating a common language ... -
Quality of Post-Abortion Care in Nigeria
(APHRC and Ebonyi State University, 2020-11)Women in Nigeria face a high rate of unwanted pregnancies, with more than half of these resulting in induced abortions, which are often unsafe. About 40% of women who resort to abortion experience complications that are ... -
Advancing Learning Outcomes for Transformational Change III (A Lot-Change III)
(APHRC, 2021-05)At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, about 1.6 billion learners (94% globally) from pre-primary to higher education were affected by the partial or total closure of schools (UN, 2020). As shown in Table 1, projections ... -
Kenya – National Adolescent Mental Health Survey (K-NAMHS)
(APHRC, 2022-10)Little is known about the prevalence of mental disorders among Kenyan adolescents. This is a critical gap in knowledge as studies have shown that mental disorders during adolescence, particularly those that remain untreated ...
