However, due to their greater availability of services and economic opportunities, urban counties like Nairobi and Mombasa had the lowest poverty rates, with 16.5% and 27.0%, respectively.

The findings of the 2022 survey revealed a significant variation in overall poverty rates at the county level, ranging from a low of 16.5% in Nairobi City to a high of 82.7% in Turkana.

with counties in ASAL areas recording higher poverty rates Nairobi and Mombasa had the lowest poverty rates, with 16.5% and 27.0%, respectively, attributed to improved access to economic opportunities ...

According to Mikaela Mwangura, Nairobi County G100 chair, one such way is through supporting entrepreneurship in communities with high poverty rates. G100 is an influential group of 100 women ...

Poverty-environment mainstreaming is an important part of institutional change process to integrate poverty environment linkages into policy and planning, budgeting and implementation processes at all ...

Nairobi. The apartments are part of the Kibera Slum Upgrading Project, September 2016. [Jacob Otieno, Standard] Over the years, Africa has had countless poverty alleviation initiatives with ...

Esther Musavi at Polycom Development office in Kibera, Nairobi. Joyce Wambui was happy when she got married and looked forward ... Read: Damp pads, itchy discomfort: A slum girl's menstrual struggles ...

In 2008-09, ethnographic fieldwork documented the daily lives of four teenagers in New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, and Ankara. In 2021, we followed up with them for updates on their situation.

At a time of rising populism and increasing opposition worldwide to immigration from countries wracked by poverty and civil ...

Yet behind [its] beautiful façades, there were hidden ugly things – violence, greed, poverty, and ecological destruction. While there, we became interested in the visuals and language of utopia and ...