Safe Water Sanitation And Early Childhood Malnutrition In East Africa

Author : Assata Zerai,Brenda N. Sanya
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498520843

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Safe Water, Sanitation, and Early Childhood Malnutrition in East Africa by Assata Zerai,Brenda N. Sanya Pdf

To understand safe water and sanitation in East Africa, it is important to consider the contributions of African feminist analysis. This perspective will unveil inequities in the distribution of resources, demonstrate how localized solutions which are driven by women’s collaborative work have had an impact by temporarily easing the burden, and paint a multilayered picture of the lives of women and girls who are the predominant providers of water to households. This book explores the effects of water and sanitation quality and availability on early childhood morbidity in East Africa from an African feminist sociological perspective. It presents a framework that considers the ways that the development industry, neoliberalism, neocolonial relations, gender, class, ethnicity, globalization, and other dimensions of oppression intersect to impact upon the experiences and agency of women and children accessing clean water and safe sanitation and reducing early childhood morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. This work offers a vital contribution to the social scientific literature by adapting the vibrant intellectual work of African feminists to a quantitative methodology and enlarging the scope of empirically and theoretically grounded studies within the field of environmental sociology.

Author : Assata Zerai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351363655

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African Women, ICT and Neoliberal Politics by Assata Zerai Pdf

How can we promote people-centered governance in Africa? Cell phones/ information and communications technology (ICT) are shown to be linked to neoliberal understandings of more democratic governance structures, defined by the Worldwide Governance Indicators as: the rule of law, corruption-control, regulation quality, government effectiveness, political stability/no violence, and voice and accountability. However, these indicators fall short: they do note emphasize gender equity or pro-poor policies. Writing from an African feminist scholar-activist perspective, Assata Zerai emphasizes the voices of women in two ways: (1) she examines how women's access to ICT makes a difference to the success of people-centered governance structures; and (2) she demonstrates how African women's scholarship, too often marginalized, must be used to expand and redefine the goals and indicators of democratice governance in African countries. Challenging the status quo that praises the contributions of cell phones to the diffusion of knowledge and resultant better governance in Africa, this book is an important read for scholars of politics and technology, gender and politics, and African Studies.

Author : UNICEF.
Publisher : UNICEF
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789280640502

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Progress for Children by UNICEF. Pdf

Unsafe water and lack of sanitation and adequate hygiene contribute to the leading killers of children under five, including diarrhoeal diseases, pneumonia and undernutrition, and have implications for whether children - especially girls - attend school. Thus achieving Millennium Development Goal 7, and its 2015 targets of reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, is of vital relevance for children and for improving nutrition, education and women's status. This issue of Progress for Children reports on whether the world is on course to reach MDG 7, and where efforts are falling short.

Author : Nat J. Colletta,Jayshree Balachander,Xiaoyan Liang
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821336770

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The Condition of Young Children in Sub-Saharan Africa by Nat J. Colletta,Jayshree Balachander,Xiaoyan Liang Pdf

Reviews the World Bank's experience in industrial restructuring in 46 countries during the past 14 years. The study finds that for most completed public enterprise restructuring operations, sustainability of benefits was a large problem, mainly because of fragile sector reforms and inadequate governance and management. Those completed for the private sector experienced poor outcomes from inadequate attention to country economic conditions and policy distortions. To overcome such problems, the study recommends that future restructuring operations be designed and implemented to have an impact at the firm level.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004540811

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Transforming Teaching and Learning Experiences for Helping Professions in Higher Education by Anonim Pdf

Transforming Teaching and Learning Experiences for the Helping Professions in Higher Education: Global Perspectives explores praxis, theory, methods and tools for educators, students and researchers in the helping professions in a changing world.

Author : Wanjala S. Nasong'o,Imali J. Abala,Kefa M. Otiso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666925050

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African Immigrants and the American Experience by Wanjala S. Nasong'o,Imali J. Abala,Kefa M. Otiso Pdf

"This book explores the lived experiences of African immigrants in the United States in their pursuit of the fabled American dream. It examines and documents their travails, successes, and fate vis-à-vis the problematics of race, ethnicity, and anti-Black violence"--

Author : Dean T. Jamison
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780821363980

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Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa by Dean T. Jamison Pdf

Current data and trends in morbidity and mortality for the sub-Saharan Region as presented in this new edition reflect the heavy toll that HIV/AIDS has had on health indicators, leading to either a stalling or reversal of the gains made, not just for communicable disorders, but for cancers, as well as mental and neurological disorders.

Author : Assata Zerai
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498526425

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Intersectionality in Intentional Communities by Assata Zerai Pdf

Over a decade of qualitative research, Assata Zerai has observed both incremental moves toward inclusiveness and strategies employed to accomplish long-term changes while conducting case studies of five multicultural Protestant churches in sites across the United States. With an interpretive approach, she explores these centers of worship and theorizes the conditions under which progressive social change occurs in some U.S. Protestant congregations. Understanding the daily practices of change and entrenchment in Protestant congregations and the intentional work to replace dominating structures with liberating ones may provide keys to creating multicultural, antiracist, feminist, and sexually inclusive volitional communities more broadly. Intersectionality in Intentional Communities argues that making a significant advance toward inclusion requires change in the underlying social structures of racism, sexism, heteronormativity, class, and other marginalizing influences. In order to isolate this phenomenon, Zerai conducted fieldwork and archival research among an African American and four multiracial U.S. churches. Different from a university or other public institution in which members are legally required to support diversity and related values, Zerai believes that volitional communities may provide a best-case scenario for how, motivated by higher ideals, members may find ways to create inclusive communities. Zerai’s research has a broad empirical base, encompassing five sites: a largely African American urban megachurch in the Midwest; a large Midwestern multiracial/multicultural church; a large urban multiracial/multicultural church in the eastern United States; a small, suburban Midwestern multiracial church; and an inclusive Midwestern college town church. In this book, Zerai further explores important connections between U.S. Protestant Christian congregations and political activism.

Author : Abu Bakarr Bah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786997890

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Post-Conflict Institutional Design by Abu Bakarr Bah Pdf

Since gaining independence from colonial rule, most African countries have been struggling to build democratic and peaceful states. While African multiparty politics may be viewed as a democratic system of governance, in reality it is plagued by ethnic and regional political grievances that undermine meaningful democracy. By examining post-conflict institutional reforms in several African countries, this book sheds light on the common causes of violent conflicts and how institutional design can affect the conditions for peace and democracy in Africa. Focussing on conceptual and practical questions of designing ethnically and regionally inclusive state institutions and the way institutions are perceived by the citizenry Post-Conflict Institutional Design addresses political autonomy and control over resources, issues which are often key sources of ethnic and regional grievances. Crucially, it examines the meanings of institutional reforms as well ethnic and regional representation.

Author : Emmanuel Skoufias,Katja Vinha,Ryoko Sato
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781464813979

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All Hands On Deck by Emmanuel Skoufias,Katja Vinha,Ryoko Sato Pdf

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the scale of undernutrition is staggering; 58 million children under the age of five are too short for their age (stunted), and 14 million weigh too little for their height (wasted). Poor diets in terms of diversity, quality, and quantity, combined with illness and poor water and sanitation facilities, are linked with deficiencies of micronutrients—such as iodine, vitamin A, and iron—associated with growth, development, and immune function. In the short term, inequities in access to the determinants of nutrition increase the incidence of undernutrition and diarrheal disease. In the long term, the chronic undernutrition of children has important consequences for individuals and societies: a high risk of stunting, impaired cognitive development, lower school attendance rates, reduced human capital attainment, and a higher risk of chronic disease and health problems in adulthood. Inequities in access to services early in life contribute to the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Recent World Bank estimates suggest that the income penalty a country incurs for not having eliminated stunting when today’s workers were children is about 9†“10 percent of gross domestic product per capita in Sub-Saharan Africa. Much of the effort to date has focused on the costing, financing, and impact of nutrition-specific interventions delivered mainly through the health sector to reach the global nutrition targets for stunting, anemia, and breastfeeding, and interventions for treating wasting. However, the determinants of undernutrition are multisectoral, and the solution to undernutrition requires multisectoral approaches. An acceleration of the progress to reduce stunting in Sub-Saharan Africa requires engaging additional sectors—such as agriculture; education; social protection; and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)—to improve nutrition. This book lays the groundwork for more effective multisectoral action by analyzing and generating empirical evidence to inform the joint targeting of nutrition-sensitive interventions. Using information from 33 recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), measures are constructed to capture a child’s access to food security, care practices, health care, and WASH, to identify gaps in access among different socioeconomic groups; and to relate access to these nutrition drivers to nutrition outcomes. All Hands on Deck: Reducing Stunting through Multisectoral Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa addresses three main questions: • Do children have inadequate access to the underlying determinants of nutrition? • What is the association between stunting and inadequate food, care practices, health, and WASH access? • Can the sectors that have the greatest impact on stunting be identified? This book provides country authorities with a holistic picture of the gaps in access to the drivers of nutrition within countries to assist them in the formulation of a more informed, evidence-based, and balanced multisectoral strategy against undernutrition.

Author : Dennis B. Warner,Carmela Green Abate
Publisher : Catholic Relief Services
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781614920328

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Guidelines for the Development of Small-Scale Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Projects in East Africa by Dennis B. Warner,Carmela Green Abate Pdf

This document constitutes general technical guidelines for the planning and implementation of small-scale water supply and sanitation activities in rural East Africa, which includes both projects funded under the USAID Title II (Food for Peace) Program and projects funded by other donors. It is intended to assist Catholic Relief Services and its partners in improving the effectiveness, environmental protection and long-term sustainability of water and sanitation activities in the rural, and often food-insecure, areas of East Africa.

Author : Andrea L. Stanton,Edward Ramsamy,Carolyn M. Elliott,Peter J. Seybolt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1977 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412981767

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Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa by Andrea L. Stanton,Edward Ramsamy,Carolyn M. Elliott,Peter J. Seybolt Pdf

These volumes convey what daily life is like in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Entries will aid readers in understanding the importance of cultural sociology, to appreciate the effects of cultural forces around the world.

Author : Lisa C. Smith,Lawrence James Haddad
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896296343

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Overcoming Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries by Lisa C. Smith,Lawrence James Haddad Pdf

Although the percentage of children who are malnourishes has declined in many countries of the developing world in recent years, the absolute number of malnourished children is rising in some regions, particulary in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims to determine which of the various causes of mal nutrition are most important for the developing countries as a whole and by region, thus enabling policymakers to prioritize their investments and make the besy use of available resources to reduce malnutrition now and in coming years.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000138275361

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Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2015 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1857431863

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Central and South-Eastern Europe 2004 by Europa Publications Pdf

Comprises: a general survey of the region; country surveys; political profiles of the region; and information on international and regional organizations, and research institutes.