NAIROBI, Kenya, April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Refugees in Kakuma refugee camp in the scrubland of northwestern Kenya now have access to higher education, following the launch by Jesuit Refugee Service of a distance-education project in collaboration with U.S. universities. The Jesuit Commons -- Higher Education at the Margins project offers a dynamic and flexible model of higher education to refugees, promoting education as a fundamental human right. In Kakuma, at least 100 refugees are expected to participate in the new program during the first year.
... and institutions of higher education, a vibrant press and civil society, political spac... has worked by using the lure of joint access to state resources to bring opponents into an agre...
...e. Ethiopia f. Kenya g. Somalia h. Sudan 2. Environmental and Natural D... increased morbidity and mortality, loss of access to common property, and social disintegration. (13... problems, and less access to education and jobs. (251) . These arguments, of course, forc...
... is by providing new tools for providing access to information and knowledge management as well as...(2004) in his study of distance education in Kenya showed that the students in the four universities ...
... plasmodium falciparum malaria epidemics in Kenya (Weekly Epidemiological Record, 1998). Similarly, ... control, health facilities, health education and research related to malaria. But the fact is t...Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB and Access to Essential Medicines, Working Group on Malaria h...
LIVERMORE, Calif., July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fellows of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation helped form a team that has been selected as grant recipients to participate in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge" (RTTC), announced at the AfricaSan conference in Rwanda as part of more than $40 million in new investments launching its Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene strategy. The winning "Biochar Group" is a volunteer collaboration including Hertz Fellows from MIT, Caltech, the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. The group is one of eight winning teams from a field of 22 universities invited to compete in the Gates Foundation challenge to develop a 21st century toilet without links to water, energy, or sewer lines that costs users unde...
... of the 2.6 billion people who don't have access to safe sanitation, we not only must reinvent the ... the Fellows in their graduate education, the Foundation provides unique seminars, workshop...
... Bangladesh, Mexico, and most recently in Kenya. A new publication, the ECP Handbook: Introducing ... percent had a college/university-level education. (Separate Population Council research in Banglade...
This study examines social inequalities in intimate partner violence (IPV) among women of reproductive age in Kenya. A sample comprising 3,696 women was retrieved from the Kenyan Demographic and Health Survey of 2003. The study design was cross-sectional. Chi-square tests and logistic regression were used to analyze the data. Results indicated that while high education among women reduced the risk of IPV exposure, both being employed and having a higher education/occupational status than her partner increased a woman's vulnerability to IPV. Age differences between the partners, illiteracy, and lack of autonomy and access to information increased the likelihood of IPV. Finally, being in polygamous relationships was associated with IPV exposure. The findings indicate demographic, social, ...
Developing countries have rapidly increased access to primary school, but the quality of education ha...Thus, a third project, conducted in rural Kenya, was set up to assess the importance of the two fa...
Markel presents a historical perspective of the British model for countering insurgencies. He also contrasts the two successful operations to the US experience in Vietnam and determines that the main lesson to be derived from those counterinsurgencies is that physical control of the contested segment of the population seemed essential.
... were able to deny the communist insurgents access to recruits, food, and military supplies. It also ...This strategy was liable to abuse. In Kenya, against the contemporary Mau Mau rebellion, the B..., ensuring access to medical care and education. Another key difference was that the squatters now...
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