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    • Social and solidarity economy: Our common road towards decent work 

      Fonteneau, Bénédicte; Neamtan, Nancy; Wanyama, Fredrick; Morais, Leandro; Poorter, Mathieu de; Borzaga, Carlo; Galera, Giulia; Fox, Tom; Ojong, Nathaneal (2011-10)
      This chapter aims to explain the meaning and nature of the social and solidarity economy (SSE). The SSE is all around us and refers to familiar realities for everyone in the world: we are all members of at least one ...

    • Somali refugees in Kenya 

      McAteer, Boel; Amado, Patricia García; Krisciunaite, Akvile; Owiso, Michael (2023-11)
      Kenya hosts more than 500,000 refugees, most of whom live in camps. The new Refugee Act (2021), which came into force in 2022, creates potential for new policy allowing increased mobility between camp and city. This ...

    • Some positive aspects of neo-liberalism for African development: The revival of solidarity in co-operatives 

      Wanyama, Fredrick O (2013-01)
      The history of cooperative development in Africa has left a mixed conception of these organizations. Whereas some observers regard them to be neither voluntary nor members’ organizations, but extensions of the government; ...

    • Structural Violence: Moving beyond ethnicity towards and understanding of electoral violence in kenya 

      Michael Omondi Owiso (Aalborg University, 2019)
      Ethnicity has come to be widely used as an explanation to electoral violence in Kenya. Research on electoral violence has been limited to electoral related violence in relation to the manipulation of the multi-ethnic ...

    • Surviving liberalization: the cooperative movement in Kenya 

      Wanyama, Fredrick O (2016)
      The Cooperative Facility for Africa (CoopAfrica) is a regional technical cooperation programme of the ILO contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the promotion of decent work in Africa ...

    • Taking stock of socio-economic challenges in the Nairobi Slums 

      Olang' Sana, Okoth Okombo (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2012)
      Kenya s post-2007 elections violence was a landmark event in the country s political history and led to the death and displacement of over thousand people. The Nairobi slums are one area that was adversely affected by the ...

    • Voting without institutionalized political parties: Primaries, manifestos and the 2007 general elections in Kenya 

      Frederick Wanyama (Society for International Development and Institute for Development Studies-University of Nairobi, 2010)
      This chapter discusses the impact of institutional capacity of political parties on the organization of party primaries and formulation of manifestos for the 2007 general elections in Kenya. The discussion also assesses ...