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Gender Analysis Tools for Budget Preparation, Monitoring & Evaluation
(African Women Studies Research Centre & Women's Economic Empowerment Hub, University of Nairobi, 2025-01)Since its establishment in 2011, AWSC has been a vibrant program, focused on academic programs, innovative research, and evidence-based policy advocacy to create African women's knowledge and change the mainstream, influencing ... -
Effects of Accessing Childcare Services on Women’s Economic Empowerment
(African Women Studies Research Centre & Women's Economic Empowerment Hub, University of Nairobi, 2024-09)Childcare has gained traction in recent times as the need for childcare services has increased. Globally, over 40% of all children under primary school require structured childcare but lack access to it. While taking care ... -
Contribution of Childcare Centre to the Nutritional Status and Dietary Practices of Children Aged Two to Four Years and Wellbeing of Caregivers
(African Women Studies Research Centre & Women's Economic Empowerment Hub, University of Nairobi, 2024-09)In the last twenty years, the number of women in the labour force has increased leading to heightened challenges for women engaged in formal and informal employment as they navigate the paired roles as employees and childcare ... -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Incubating Women’s Collectives / Group Businesses for Replication
(Women's Economic Empowerment Hub (WEE-Hub), University of Nairobi, 2024-02)Women’s entrepreneurship and economic empowerment are crucial indicators of global economic development as they contribute to employment creation and economic growth. In Kenya, about 36% of Small and Medium Enterprises are ... -
WEE Hub Newsletter (Vol.1, Issue 04, Jan 2024)
(Women's Economic Empowerment Hub (WEE-Hub), University of Nairobi, 2024-01)At the Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Hub of the African Women Studies Centre (AWSC), now in its fourth year of implementation, we have made substantive progress in the implementation of the program working towards the ... -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Business Incubation on Women’s Enterprises for Upscaling
(UoN, Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub, 2023-09)The University of Nairobi, Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub (UoN-WEE Hub)’s Women’s Business Incubation (WBI) project is a three-year evaluation program on how women-focused incubation models contribute to the growth of ... -
WEE Hub Newsletter (Vol.1, Issue 03, Aug 2023)
(Women's Economic Empowerment Hub (WEE-Hub), University of Nairobi, 2023-08)Welcome to Volume 1, Issue 3 of the UoN WEE Hub Newsletter. The WEE Hub is committed, through research on entrepreneurship and employment to generate data that supports continuous evidence-based development of knowledge ... -
Assessing What Works for Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in the Implementation of Kenya’s Credit Guarantee Scheme
(UoN, AWSC, Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub, 2022-01)Kenya’s Credit Guarantee Scheme (CGS) was established as part of the presidential economic stimulus package in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on medium, small and micro enterprises. In order to contain the ... -
Assessing the Contributions of the Women’s Movements & Women’s Self-Mobilization, to Women’s Economic Empowerment in Kenya Between 1963 and 2010
(UoN, AWSC, Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub, 2023)This study focused on Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in select counties in Kenya. These were Busia, Kakamega, and Kisumu in the Western region; Kajiado, Nakuru and Baringo in the Rift Valley region; Nyeri, Muranga, and ... -
Examining Strategies that Women’s Movement Used to Realize Gains in the Kenya Constitution 2010
(UoN, AWSC, Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub, 2023)Women have been excluded from decision-making institutions and processes. To eliminate gender discrimination in laws, secure equal rights for women and enact legislations that promote gender equality, women have since the ... -
WEE Hub Newsletter (Vol.1, Issue 02, Jun 2023)
(UoN, AWSC, Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub, 2023-06)Welcome to our second issue of the University of Nairobi Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Hub newsletter. The Hub is happy to continue interacting with you through this quarterly publication. The Year 2023 began in ... -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Incubating Women’s Collective/Group Businesses for Replication
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Incubating Individual Women’s Businesses for Replication
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Assessing what works in Growing Women’s Businesses through Incubation
(UoN, AWSC, Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub, 2023)The UoN-WEE Hub Women's Business Incubation (WBI) project is a three-year evaluation of how women-focused incubation models contribute to the growth of businesses and enterprises in Kenya. The overall objective of the ... -
Gender Aware Policy Analysis Guideline
(Women's Economic Empowerment Hub (WEE-Hub), University of Nairobi, 2023)Mainstreaming women in policies and programmes have been guided by different frameworks that have been developed over time. Such include: Gender Planning in the third world: Meeting Practical and Strategic Gender Needs ... -
WEE Hub Newsletter (Vol.1, Issue 01, Jan 2023)
(UoN, AWSC, Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub, 2023-01)Welcome to the Inaugural Issue of the, UON WEE HUB NEWSLETTER. This quarterly publication by the University of Nairobi Women’s Economic Empowerment (UoN WEE) Hub will bring to you updates on the research activities, ... -
Regulations & Syllabus for the Women's Business Incubation Program - Women's Economic Empowerment
(UoN, AWSC, Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub, 2022-08)The focus on women’s economic empowerment is currently a global priority. Women’s economic empowerment is the process of achieving women’s equal access to and control of economic resources and being able to make decisions ... -
Communication Strategy - Women's Economic Empowerment Hub
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Priority Agenda for Women’s Economic Empowerment
(University of Nairobi, 2022)The Priority Agenda is informed by the research carried out by the University of Nairobi (UON) WEE Hub researchers under different thematic areas, including affirmative action funds; women in informal and formal employment; ... -
Strategies that Work - Women in Politics & Constitution Making in Kenya
(African Women Studies Research Centre & Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub, University of Nairobi with the support of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2022)
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