News

New MAMBO! : "Conflicts over water around Lake Turkana" by Marine Le Ster [Article]

1-2 December 2011: International Conference "Diversity in Society: Theory and Practice", organised by IFRA (Kenya) and GRER-ICT (Université Paris Diderot, France). It will be held at IFRA-Nairobi (Kenya). [Programme]

24-25 November 2011: "Child Victims, Vulnerable Children, "Violent" Youth in East Africa (Burundi, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda)". This seminar is organised within the framework of the research programme on Childhood in Eastern Africa. It will be held at IFRA [Programme].

21-23 November 2011: "Heritagisation of Biodiversity and Governance of Natural Resources in the Light of Environmental Stress". This seminar on natural resources management in the context of environmental stress is due to take place at IFRA and Kenyatta University [Programme].

6-7 April 2011: Conference on "the challenges in the implementation of slum upgrading projects in Nairobi" at Alliance Française, organised by the French Institute for Research in Africa. IFRA aims at reinforcing collaborations between the different stakeholders, academics and practitioners involved in slum upgrading projects in Nairobi. [Read the programme]

25 February 2011: Seminar : ‘Critical Studies of Childhood and Childcare’, 9-12am, BIEA/IFRA conference room

ANR research program 'Enfants vulnerables, jeunesse violente' by Prof. Mildred Ndeda

“Conflicting realities: Kenyan childhood ethos and the CRC* ethic” by Dr Yvan Droz

“Intimacy and inequality: investigating local childcare chains in Nairobi”by Dr.Ambreena Manji

27-29th of January : New Trends in Kenyan Politics? Workshop at IFRA on Tuesday 8th of February.

17-18 January 2011: Regional Workshop on the "Second Circle" of Heritage in East Africa

IFRA held a regional workshop on Heritage in East Africa dealing with the challenges of the heritagisation and heritage valorisation of neglected sites. It brought together academics and research project managers from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, as well as practitioners and heritage professionals, and representatives of national and international research organizations. The objective of this meeting was to come up with a commun research project.[read the report]

East African elections observatory : Contributionby Alexander Makulilo and Consolata Raphael: The 2010 general election in Tanzania ; Contribution by Aurélie AGAY: Histoire des élections au Burundi;

UN-Habitat /IFRA cooperation on the mapping of Nairobi: IFRA cooperates with UN-Habitat on the creation of a map of Nairobi neighborhoods classified following socio-economic status.