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  • Multiple Stressors Shape Mothers’ Mental Health in Nairobi, Kenya

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    CODE BLUE  //  Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  March 11, 2020  //  By Sangeetha Madhavan

    14319713178_3da612f64c_oThe mental health of mothers cannot be studied in isolation, as just a psychological snapshot in time. Their complex lives both past and present must be taken into consideration. When I was researching marriage, motherhood, and social support in Korogocho, an informal settlement in Nairobi, stories I heard underscored how a range of life experiences conspire to affect a woman’s mental health. I heard life histories like this:

    When Ann was 17, she met Fredrick, got pregnant and moved in with him when she was 18. Two years later, Fredrick got arrested and was gone for two years. When he came back, she got pregnant with child No. 2 within a month but then left the relationship seven months later because of ongoing conflict. When she was about 23 with a 2-month-old and 5-year-old, Frederick shot her. Two months later, he himself was killed. Four months later, she met the man who would become her second husband. After living together for three years, he took her back to his home to meet his family. She then had her third baby.

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  • Gordon Mumbo on Water and Livelihoods in the Mara River Basin

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    Friday Podcasts  //  Water Security for a Resilient World  //  Water Stories (Podcast Series)  //  November 15, 2019  //  By Benjamin Dills

    Gordon Mumbo imageThis article is part of ECSP’s Water Security for a Resilient World series, a partnership with USAID’s Sustainable Water Partnership and Winrock International to share stories about global water security.

    “If you live in the developed world or in some urban centers, then the supply of water is guaranteed,” said Gordon Mumbo, team leader for Sustainable Water for the Mara River Basin, a project of Winrock International and USAID’s Sustainable Water Partnership, in this week’s Water Stories podcast. When you wake up, you expect water to flow from your tap. “If you don’t find it flowing, you get upset and will probably call the utility company.” But people living in the Mara River Basin don’t have that luxury. “They have to walk to the river to get water and bring it home,” said Mumbo.

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  • A Generation in Limbo: Protracted Refugee Situations in Kenya Must Be Addressed

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    August 15, 2019  //  By John Thon Majok
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    The 1951 Refugee Convention spells out refugee rights, including the right to freedom of movement. Yet 68 years later, 15.9 million people are trapped in prolonged exile, living as refugees for anywhere from 5 to 47 years and counting. The unprecedented duration of protracted refugee situations (PRS) and the increasing scale of forced migration demand a comprehensive response beyond humanitarian assistance.  

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  • Doris Kaberia on Public-Private Partnerships and Holistic Approaches to Water Management in Kenya

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    Friday Podcasts  //  Water Stories (Podcast Series)  //  January 11, 2019  //  By Truett Sparkman

    Doris Kaberia 235“You cannot separate water and health,” says Doris Kaberia in this week’s Water Stories podcast. “People need safe drinking water for them to be healthy.” Kaberia works with Millennium Water Alliance, a coalition of international NGOs working on water sanitation and hygiene around the world, where she manages a Kenyan water program.

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  • “The River Belongs to the People”: Building Cooperation in the Mara River Basin

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    Beat on the Ground  //  Eye On  //  September 25, 2018  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    This profile and photo essay by Bobby Neptune are adapted from an article published by the Sustainable Water Partnership.

    Water engineer Gordon Mumbo of USAID’s Sustainable Water Partnership grew up in the small Kenyan village of Kamuga. Year after year, he watched as frequent floods from one of Kenya’s major rivers, the Nyando, disrupted village life. After 30 years of a wide-ranging career in water, for the first time since his childhood, he has returned to his birthplace, where he leads a team building community engagement in the Mara River basin.

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  • How Family Planning Can Help Save Cheetahs

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 20, 2018  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    This article by Sophie Edwards originally appeared on Devex.

    Conservationists and development practitioners may not have always seen eye to eye, but a new partnership between a cheetah conservation charity and a network of reproductive health NGOs is making the case for why these groups need to work more closely together.

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  • Reaching the Farthest Behind: Maternal Health Innovations at the Facility Level

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  October 2, 2017  //  By Yuval Cohen
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    “Innovation happens when there are pioneers that stick with it,” said Monica Kerrigan, vice president of innovations at Jhpiego. “How can we—each one of us—be part of the change process?” Innovations will be essential to meeting Sustainable Development Goal #3, which is to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to below 70 deaths per 100,000 live births. Experts from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Jhpiego, Jacaranda Health, and Total Impact Capital came together at the Wilson Center on September 14th to discuss how maternal health clinics and other facilities can be drivers of innovation.

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  • Food Violence Shows Need for Both Development and Climate Resilience

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 31, 2017  //  By Benjamin T. Jones, Eleonora Mattiaci & Bear F. Braumoeller
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    In March, the Trump Administration released a new budget proposal that would cut funding to the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development by 28 percent. The proposal also reduces funding to the United Nations for ongoing climate change efforts. At the same time, the White House is publicly considered withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords, with a final decision anticipated any day. Critics both outside the administration and within have pointed to the drawbacks of these moves, but the sum of the policy changes could have an even greater impact than the individual parts.

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