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Ezra J. Kottler, Kurt Shanebeck, S Collinge, Gillian Bowser, Pamela H. Templer , et al. · 2023

Prospects • Employment opportunities and academic programsCover picture: Each year, vast numbers of photographs are uploaded to online citizen-science biodiversity platforms such as iNaturalist.But within these image libraries, species-lev…

The wearing of face masks in African countries under the COVID-19 crisis: luxury or necessity? Open

Zohra Aloui, Lahcen El Youssfi, Kingsley Badu, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Damaris Matoke-Muhia , et al. · 2020

The unforeseeable global crisis of the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused almost all affected countries to adopt a range of protective measures as recommended by the World Health Organization. However, the speed, type…

Intergenerational Dialogue, Collaboration, Learning, and Decision-Making in Global Environmental Governance: The Case of the IUCN Intergenerational Partnership for Sustainability Open

Melanie Zurba, Dominic Stucker, Grace Mwaura, Catie Burlando, Archi Rastogi , et al. · 2020

This article provides evidence and a rationale based on adaptive governance studies for why creating meaningful youth engagement should be understood in terms of intergenerational dialogue, collaboration, learning, and substantive decision…

Kenya’s Youth Agricultural Livelihoods and the Land–Water–Environment Nexus Open

Grace Mwaura · 2019

Kenyan youth have started to embrace agriculture as a viable livelihood source following a decade of the ‘youth-in-agriculture’ narrative that promotes, among other things, agribusiness as a viable youth employment opportunity. Among the m…

Formal‐sector employment and Africa's youth employment crisis: Irrelevance or policy priority? Open

James Sumberg, Justin Flynn, Philip Mader, Grace Mwaura, Marjoke Oosterom , et al. · 2019

Motivation Youth employment has risen to the top of Africa's development agenda. But there is an often‐ignored tension between the current focus of policy and implementation on self‐employment and entrepreneurship, and the ability of emplo…

Women in the gig economy Paid work, care and flexibility in Kenya and South Africa Open

Abigail Hunt, Emma Samman, Sherry Tapfuma, Grace Mwaura, Rhoda Omenya , et al. · 2019

The gig economy is expanding globally, with exponential growth forecast in traditionally female-dominated sectors - notably on-demand household services including cooking, cleaning and care work. But little research to date has focused on …

Youth Employment and the Private Sector in Africa Open

Alison Norwood, Beth Richard, Gary Edwards, Ayodele Ibrahim, Monica Lambon-Quayefio , et al. · 2018

Globally, governments, development agencies, and inter-governmental institutions have invested heavily in skills-building interventions seeking to enhance the employability of youths. However, policy actors are becoming more aware of the s…

The Side-Hustle: Diversified Livelihoods of Kenyan Educated Young Farmers Open

Grace Mwaura · 2017

Side-hustling – the engagement in diverse income-earning activities – has become a common phenomenon among Kenyan educated youth who are increasingly faced with formal employment uncertainties. In this article, I examine how aspirations an…

A New Framework for Diversified Work Opportunities for Kenyan Youth Open

Grace Mwaura · 2017

As the number of educated unemployed youth in Kenya increases, most are responding to the unemployment challenge by diversifying their livelihood options in multiple ways that are unique to their abilities and circumstances. It is critical…

Educated youth in Kenya : negotiating waithood by greening livelihoods Open

Grace Mwaura · 2015

The burgeoning scholarship on African youth indicates that young people are experiencing difficulties in attaining social adulthood and spend extended time in waithood – a period of economic and job insecurities that is becoming a permanen…

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