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Accepted Paper:
Kenyan rural north: A gender perspective of COVID 19
Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe
(The Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo)
Paper short abstract:
How COVID restrictions have affected the pastoral livelihood in arid lands of Kenya? The paper focus on women from Pokot and Gabra communities in North Kenya, asking to understand the effects of COVID on livelihood and the effects of participation in the research project on co- researchers lives.
Paper long abstract:
Following the first confirmed Covid case that was announced in Kenya on March 13, 2020, the Kenyan Ministry of Health announced, “There is no need for alarm” but on the other hand and on the same time published precautionary measures for the public. Kenya's case study and the arid areas in northern Kenya are in between these two extremes. This case study deals with the rural areas of Northern Kenya and asks how COVID restrictions have affected the pastoral livelihood.
This research was based on a participatory unique methodology. Designing the research collaboratively with my two Kenyan co-researchers we ask how young and adult women from Pokot and Gabra communities were affected? And how is participation in the research project is evidence in co researchers lives?