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Improving Childcare Options for Women

Project overview: Improving childcare options to create better economic opportunities for women in Nairobi slums

Project Video: Daycare in slums

Fact Sheet: Daycare in a Nairobi informal settlement

Policy Brief: Exploring the challenges in combining work and care for young children: Use of PhotoVoice with mothers from an urban Nairobi slum

Project Presentations: Conferences, workshops, and other events

Project Highlights: Photos of key project milestones

Project Partners: APHRC and 麻豆AV (CPD, ISID, and PCL)

Project Funders: Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW), IDRC, UKAid, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

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Project overview

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Project Video: Daycare in Slums

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Fact sheet: Daycare in a Nairobi informal settlement

Authors: Isabel Pike (APHRC), Stella Muthuri (APHRC), Milka Njeri (AHPRC), Caroline W. Kabiru (APHRC), and Shelley Clark (麻豆AV)

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Policy brief: Exploring the challenges in combining work and care for young children: Use of PhotoVoice with mothers from an urban Nairobi slum

Authors: Stella Muthuri (APHRC), Danielle Doughman (APHRC), Claudia Mitchell (麻豆AV) and Ashley DeMartini (麻豆AV)
Contributors: Jen Thompsons (APHRC), Margaret Amos (APHRC), and Milka Wanjohi (麻豆AV)

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Project Presentations

June 4, 2015. Claudia Mitchell (麻豆AV). Training in PhotoVoice Methodology webinar "GrOW Program: PhotoVoice - a tool for reseach and community engagement." IDRC-Participatory Cultures Lab (麻豆AV). (31 participants).

PhotoVoice Methodology - Participatory Cultures Lab, 麻豆AV

June 4-9, 2015. Claudia Mitchell (麻豆AV). PhotoVoice Exhibit. Participatory Cultures Lab, 麻豆AV, Montr茅al, Qu茅bec.

November 23, 2015. Shelley Clark (麻豆AV). Evidence to Action: Pathways for Women鈥檚 Economic Empowerment in Africa, n, IDRC, Ottawa, Ontario.

February 3-5, 2016. Claudia Mitchell (麻豆AV). International Research Symposium and Exhibition, , University of KwaZulu-Natal. Durban, South Africa.

March 7, 2016. Sonia Laszlo (麻豆AV) and Stella Muthuri (APHRC) made a presentation to , Ottawa, Ontario.

March 8, 2016. Shelley Clark (麻豆AV) and Stella Muthuri (APHRC). IDRC International Women鈥檚 Day event: Knowledge to Action: Improving Women鈥檚 Lives, IDRC, Ottawa, Ontario.

Arijit Nandi, Stelle Muthuri and Shelley Clark

April 13, 2016. Stella Muthuri (APHRC). organized by the .听Arusha, Tanzania. See blog post as well as additional mention on blog posted, "."

April 15, 2016. Shelley Clark (麻豆AV). .听 Research Group on Human Capital. School of Management, UQAM, Montr茅al, Qu茅bec.

April 19, 2016. Stella Muthuri and Milka Njeri (APHRC). Transforming dynamics in the care economy: what works?, (DFID), London, UK.

June 4th, 2016. Sonia Laszlo and Franque Grimard (麻豆AV). , at the meeting at the annual conference of the .

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Project Highlights

PhotoVoice Training and Pilot March, 2015

In March 2015, Professor and team member Claudia Mitchell (Participatory Cultures Lab, 麻豆AV) and two research assistants provided training in PhotoVoice methodology to three APHRC staff and two fieldworkers and conducted a pilot test with four women from Korogocho.

PhotoVoice training with APHRC staff: creating a PhotoVoice poster

Photo 1: PhotoVoice training with APHRC staff: creating a PhotoVoice poster.

Photo 2: PhotoVoice pilot data collection in Korogocho: women learning to use cameras.

PhotoVoice pilot data collection in Korogocho: trainers and trainees

Photo 3: PhotoVoice pilot data collection in Korogocho: trainers and trainees.

PhotoVoice focus group with women participants and Korogocho community stakeholders discussing PhotoVoice posters

Photo 4: PhotoVoice focus group with women participants and Korogocho community stakeholders discussing PhotoVoice posters.

ECD Training November, 2015

As part of the quality arm of the project daycare intervention, 32 daycare centre caregivers were provided with four days (November 24th to 28th) of early childhood development training by the Aga Khan Foundation-Madrasa Early Childhood Programme - Kenya.

ECD training participants engaged in learning activity

Photo 1: ECD training participants engaged in learning activity.

ECD training participants鈥� notes on how they expect to implement what they have learned

Photo 2: ECD training participants鈥� notes on how they expect to implement what they have learned.

ECD training participants displaying materials that they developed during the course of the training

Photo 3: ECD training participants displaying materials that they developed during the course of the training

Korogocho Field Visit January 2016

In January, 2016, PI Professor Shelley Clark visited several daycares participating in the project.

PI Professor Shelley Clark chatting with a daycare owner

IDRC Women's Day 2016. Knowledge to Action: Improving Women鈥檚 Lives

To mark International Women鈥檚 Day today, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) held the event Knowledge to Action: Improving Women鈥檚 Lives. PI Professor Shelley Clark and post-doctoral fellow participated in a panel discussing the role of the care economy in women's economic empowerment.

Panel on the role of the care economy in women's economic empowerment

L-R: Arijit Nandi, Centre on Population Dynamics, Institute on Health and Social Policy, and Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health (麻豆AV Unversity), Stella Muthuri, post-doctoral fellow, African Population and Health Research Centre, and Shelley Clark, Director, Centre on Population Dynamics and Department of Sociology, 麻豆AV.

Stella Muthuri, postdoctoral fellow, APHRC

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Blog and related news posts

Stella Muthuri Post-Doctoral Fellow APHRC March 7, 2016. Stella Muthuri, APHRC. Blog post:

May 19, 2016. Stella Muthuri, APHRC. Blog post:听

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Children Korogocho July 1, 2016. Midanna de Almada, Intern, APHRC. Blog post:听

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Single mother working with 16 month old child — Image by William Davies .

September 21, 2016. NewsDeeply. Women & Girls Hub. News article:听. Journalist and photographer:

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Team members and project staff

	Dr. Shelley Clark, PI. Director, Centre on Population Dynamics, Professor, Department of Sociology, 麻豆AV and Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Global Health.
	Dr. Sarah Brauner-Otto, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Centre on Population Dynamics, 麻豆AV.
	Dr. Franque Grimard Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Centre on Population Dynamics, 麻豆AV.
	Head, Population Dynamics and Reproductive Health, and Director, Research Capacity Strengthening, African Population and Health Research Centre.
	, co-PI. Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Centre.
	Dr. Sonia Laszlo Director, Institute for the Study of International Development and Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Centre on Population Dynamics, 麻豆AV.
	James 麻豆AV Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in the Faculty of Education, 麻豆AV; Director, Participatory Cultures Lab; and Director, Institute for Human Development and Well-Being.
	, post-doctoral fellow and project manager, African Population and Health Research Center.
	, research assistant, African Population and Health Research Center.
	, Associate Provost (International) and founding Director, Institute for the Study of International Development and Professor, Department of Political Science, 麻豆AV.