Report Summary

Have Recent Global Campaigns on Birth Registration Enhanced Children’s Claims to Citizenship? A Critical Examination of “Count Every Child” by Plan International.

Irene K. Nyamu, a Jaslika Consulting co-associate, explores the role of civil society organisations like Plan International (Plan) in enabling children to claim their rights, including their right to citizenship.

Value-based Education in Kenya: An Exploration of Meanings and Practices.

Value-based Education in Kenya: An Exploration of Meanings and Practices.

Values are one of the three pillars of the vision and mission of the Basic Education Curriculum Framework guiding education reforms in Kenya. This study led by Dr. Sheila Wamahiu provides the evidence base for the operationalization of values in the Kenyan education system.

Continuity and Change among Adigo Women’s Roles, Status and Education: An Exploratory Anthropological Study

Continuity and Change among Adigo Women’s Roles, Status and Education: An Exploratory Anthropological Study

Few people are aware that the Digo of the southern Kenyan coast were traditionally matrilineal. Already in the mid-1980s when Dr Wamahiu conducted the study as part of her doctoral research, elements of their matrilineal heritage though visible had started to erode.

Educational Situation of the Kenyan Girl Child.

Educational Situation of the Kenyan Girl Child.

This study led by Dr Sheila Wamahiu was the first comprehensive analysis of education of the girl-child in Kenya. Though conducted over two decades ago, issues such as the gross abuse of children’s rights in schools, widening of gender disparities to the disadvantage of girls as one ascends the education ladder, their continued marginalization in STEM, and the pockets of male disadvantage in some geographical locations that were flagged in the report remain current.