scholarly journals Household livelihood diversification and gender: Panel evidence from rural Kenya

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 156-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Alobo Loison
Keyword(s):  
Livelihood Diversification ◽  
Rural Kenya ◽  
Household Livelihood ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Tungiasis in Western Kenya: Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices of Household Heads – A Crossectional Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Andrew Okoth Aballa
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Modified Technique ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Exact Test ◽  
Rural Kenya ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Household Heads ◽  
And Gender

Background: According to reports of AHADT Kenya, tungiasis afflicts four million Kenyans with 10 million more at risk of severe infestation. Anecdotal reports suggest that lack of knowledge and retrogressive beliefs and practices of household heads, them being the key decision makers in rural homes, might be barriers to the control of tungiasis. Objective: To assess the knowledge, perceptions, and practices of household heads regarding tungiasis in Kenya Methodology: A crossectional study was done in Otwenya Location, Maseno Division, Kenya. Seventy-eight (78) homes were visited and all their household members checked for the presence of tungiasis. Structured pretested questionnaires were used to collect the socio demographic data of household heads and the knowledge, perceptions, and practices around tungiasis evaluated. Data analysis was done using version 21 of the Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) software. A modified technique by Memon et al. was used to compute the knowledge and attitude scores. Fisher’s exact test with Cochran Mantel Haenszel statistics was used for data analyses at 95% CI. Results: Our data was collected in Urudi Rata (39.7%), Mbeka (35.6%), and Mariwa (24.4%) villages. Most houses had iron sheer roofs (93.6%) and floors plastered with dung or cement (60.3%). Household heads were mainly female (71.8%) with primary level education (67.9%). Tungiasis was found in 39.7% of households. Earth floors (OR=11.1, P<0.01) and overcrowding (OR=3.4, p=0.04) were risk factors for tungiasis. Most respondents (75.7%) had a moderate knowledge of tungiasis with it being lowest among heads with no formal education (OR=35.56 (1.7 to 732.6), p=0.02). The knowledge of tungiasis did not influence its occurrence in homes. (p=0.49). Most respondents (82.1%) had poor perceptions of tungiasis, which did not vary by the age, education, and gender of household. However, odds of infestation was over 4.9 times higher in homes where household head had negative perception of tungiasis (OR=4.9 p=0.03). The extraction of fleas (91.1%) was the commonest treatment option. Conclusion: Tungiasis is a common ectoparasitosis in rural Kenya with a prevalence of 19.5%. Household heads are knowledge about tungiasis. However, retrogressive beliefs, negligence, and stigma are barriers for its control.

scholarly journals Sharing the burden: Shifts in family time use, agency and gender dynamics after introduction of new cookstoves in rural Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 101413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirstie Jagoe ◽  
Madeleine Rossanese ◽  
Dana Charron ◽  
Jonathan Rouse ◽  
Francis Waweru ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Family Time ◽  
Rural Kenya ◽  
Family Time Use ◽  
And Gender

Gender Relations and Household Economic Planning in the Rural Philippines

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. Eder
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Economic Planning ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Livelihood Diversification ◽  
The Future ◽  
Household Livelihood ◽  
Role Of Women

This paper lies at the intersection of the considerable scholarly literatures on household livelihood strategies and on the role of women in Southeast Asia. Focused ethnographically on rural Philippine households engaged primarily in various combinations of fishing and farming activities, and analytically on how gender relations figure in the decisions that the co-heads of these households make regarding their economic plans for the future, it considers how the livelihood diversification that characteristically accompanies rural development affects – and is in turn affected by – the conjugal relationship.

scholarly journals M-PESA: A Socio-Economic Assemblage in Rural Kenya

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Jerop Komen
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Telephony ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Rural Kenya ◽  
Money Transfers ◽  
And Gender ◽  
A Site

The role of information communication technologies in development is contested between those who view it as facilitating broad based human development (Waverman et al., 2005; Jack, Suri and Townsend 2010) and those that  view it as counterproductive (Donner 2008, Castel et al 2007). Mobile telephony, in particular, is seen as the most techno-social transformation to occur. For instance, at a macro level, Waverman et al. (2005) note that ‘mobile telephony has a positive and significant impact on economic growth and this impact may be twice as large in developing countries’. Kenya’s M-PESA is a case in point. This paper looks at M-PESA as a site of inclusion and exclusion, focusing on two elements:  emerging accounts of M-PESA usage, and security on money transfers. The paper presents M-PESA as a social assemblage by adopting DeLanda’s (2006) assemblage theory, which opens up macro and micro dichotomies. Data obtained from ethnographic interviews shows that although M-PESA is meeting some needs, it also has deterministic tendencies, such as power and gender hierarchy distributions, though complex in nature. The paper has studied mobile money as a socio-economic assemblage that shows the dynamics of social change not as given, but as constantly forming and reforming.

scholarly journals Household livelihood diversification in rural Africa

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Musumba ◽  
Cheryl A. Palm ◽  
Adam M. Komarek ◽  
Patrick K. Mutuo ◽  
Bocary Kaya
Keyword(s):  
Livelihood Diversification ◽  
Household Livelihood ◽  
Rural Africa

scholarly journals My Mobile Phone, My Life: Deconstructing Development (Maendeleo) and Gender Narratives among the Marakwet in Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Jerop Komen
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mobile Telephony ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
The People ◽  
Rural Kenya ◽  
Alternative Conceptualization ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Growth Change

The increased adoption of mobile telephony for development is based on the assumption that mobile telephony has the potential to foster social change. To some, such technology can aid most developing countries to leapfrog stages of development. Yet to others, the technology is at most counterproductive: development has been understood differently by the developed in comparison to the underdeveloped. Missing in this narrative is the people’s own conceptualization of the term development as well as their gender roles, often a component of development programs. This study presents findings on an alternative conceptualization of development, dubbed maendeleo, a Swahili term that denotes process, participation, progress, growth, change, and improved standard of living—as defined by the people or women themselves as they interact with mobile telephony in rural Kenya. Using Manuel DeLanda’s assemblage theory to analyze interviews, this study proposes an alternative conceptualization of development. This different perspective on development denotes both process and emergence, through the processes and roles that mobile telephony plays in the techno-social interactions of users, context, and other factors as they form social assemblages that are fluid in nature, hence challenging the Western proposition that new technologies produce development understood as social transformation.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting the Level of Rural Households Livelihood Diversification in Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Wanno Wallole ◽  
Yishak Gecho ◽  
Tewodros Tefera
Keyword(s):  
Rural Households ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Rural Household ◽  
Southern Ethiopia ◽  
Livelihood Diversification ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Household Livelihood ◽  
Household Heads

Livelihood diversification is enchanting a significant effect in generating household’s income. The livelihood diversification includes:on-farm, non-farm and off-farm strategies which are undertaken to get extra income and moderate hazard and insecurity. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors affecting the level of rural household livelihood diversification in Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia. The study was conducted by using a cross-sectional research design. It is a quantitative dominant concurrent mixed research methodology where the qualitative research is complemented with interpretations and triangulation. By applying multi-stage random sampling technique, a sample size of 400 household heads from 6 sample villages was selected and data were collected using interview schedule and via key informant interviews and focus group discussions. Descriptive statistics were analyzed and presented by using tables, graphs and figures while chi-square-test and F-test were employed to make statistical inferences. Tobit model was employed to identify the intensity of factors affecting of rural household’s livelihood diversification. Out of the 14 hypothesized explanatory variables, 6 variables namely age, education, access to extension, media access, distance to urban centers and training were found to have significant effect in rural household livelihood diversification decision. Therefore, the findings of this imply that rural households’ development policies should consider these factors in designing rural household livelihood diversification strategy.

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