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
Blog and related news posts
Project Team Members
Project Partners: APHRC and McGill University (CPD, ISID, and PCL)
Project Funders: Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW), IDRC, UKAid, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
APHRC Project Website
Project overview
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Project Video: Daycare in Slums
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 (McGill University)
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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 (McGill University) and Ashley DeMartini (McGill University)
Contributors: Jen Thompsons (APHRC), Margaret Amos (APHRC), and Milka Wanjohi (McGill University)
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Project Presentations
June 4, 2015. Claudia Mitchell (McGill University). Training in PhotoVoice Methodology webinar "GrOW Program: PhotoVoice - a tool for reseach and community engagement." IDRC-Participatory Cultures Lab (McGill University). (31 participants).
PhotoVoice Methodology - Participatory Cultures Lab, McGill University
June 4-9, 2015. Claudia Mitchell (McGill University). PhotoVoice Exhibit. Participatory Cultures Lab, McGill University, Montréal, Québec.
November 23, 2015. Shelley Clark (McGill University). Evidence to Action: Pathways for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Africa, Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women, IDRC, Ottawa, Ontario.
February 3-5, 2016. Claudia Mitchell (McGill University). International Research Symposium and Exhibition, Not Just an Object: Making Meaning of and from Everyday Objects in Educational Research, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Durban, South Africa.
March 7, 2016. Sonia Laszlo (McGill University) and Stella Muthuri (APHRC) made a presentation to Global Affairs Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
March 8, 2016. Shelley Clark (McGill University) and Stella Muthuri (APHRC). IDRC International Women’s Day event: Knowledge to Action: Improving Women’s Lives, IDRC, Ottawa, Ontario.
April 13, 2016. Stella Muthuri (APHRC). Regional Knowledge Management Share Fair organized by the East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community. Arusha, Tanzania. See blog post PhotoVoice for Knowledge Management as well as additional mention on blog posted, "A Growing Community for Knowledge Management in Africa."
April 15, 2016. Shelley Clark (McGill University). Inequalities and Families: Childhood as a Homeland. Research Group on Human Capital. School of Management, UQAM, Montréal, Québec.
April 19, 2016. Stella Muthuri and Milka Njeri (APHRC). Transforming dynamics in the care economy: what works?, Department for International Development (DFID), London, UK.
June 4th, 2016. Sonia Laszlo and Franque Grimard (McGill University). Women's Economic Empowerment and GrOW policy panel, at the Canadian Development Economics Study Group meeting at the annual conference of the Canadian Economics Association.
Project Highlights
PhotoVoice Training and Pilot March, 2015
In March 2015, Professor and team member Claudia Mitchell (Participatory Cultures Lab, McGill University) 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.
Photo 1: PhotoVoice training with APHRC staff: creating a PhotoVoice poster.
Photo 2: PhotoVoice pilot data collection in Korogocho: women learning to use cameras.
Photo 3: PhotoVoice pilot data collection in Korogocho: trainers and trainees.
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.
Photo 1: ECD training participants engaged in learning activity.
Photo 2: ECD training participants’ notes on how they expect to implement what they have learned.
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’s Lives
To mark International Women’s Day today, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) held the event Knowledge to Action: Improving Women’s Lives. PI Professor Shelley Clark and post-doctoral fellow Stella Muthuri participated in a panel discussing 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 (McGill Unversity), Stella Muthuri, post-doctoral fellow, African Population and Health Research Centre, and Shelley Clark, Director, Centre on Population Dynamics and Department of Sociology, McGill University.
Stella Muthuri, postdoctoral fellow, APHRC
Blog and related news posts
March 7, 2016. Stella Muthuri, APHRC. Blog post: How women who work are held back by a lack of quality daycare in Africa
May 19, 2016. Stella Muthuri, APHRC. Blog post: PhotoVoice for Knowledge Management
July 1, 2016. Midanna de Almada, Intern, APHRC. Blog post: Through the eyes of mothers: A look into the challenges faced by women in Korogocho slum
Team members and project staff
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Dr. Shelley Clark, PI. Director, Centre on Population Dynamics, |
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Dr. Sarah Brauner-Otto, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Centre on Population Dynamics, McGill University. |
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Dr. Franque Grimard Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Centre on Population Dynamics, McGill University. |
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Dr. Chimaraoke Izugbara Head, Population Dynamics and Reproductive Health, and Director, Research Capacity Strengthening, African Population and Health Research Centre. |
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Dr. Caroline Kabiru, co-PI. Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Centre. |
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Dr. Sonia Laszlo Director, Institute for the Study of International Development and Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Centre on Population Dynamics, McGill University. |
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Dr. Claudia Mitchell James McGill Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in the Faculty of Education, McGill University; Director, Participatory Cultures Lab; and Director, Institute for Human Development and Well-Being. |
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Dr. Stella Muthuri, post-doctoral fellow and project manager, African Population and Health Research Center. |
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Ms. Milka Njeri, research assistant, African Population and Health Research Center. |
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Dr. Phil Oxhorn, Associate Provost (International) and founding Director, Institute for the Study of International Development and Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University. |
Project Partners
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African Population Health Research Centre |
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Centre on Population Dynamics, McGill University |
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Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University |
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McGill University |
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Project Funders
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International Development Research Centre (IDRC) |
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UK Aid (UK Department for International Development) |
