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I, Captain Ali Ibrahim Roba, hereby submit this manifesto of our beliefs and policy to the Mandera electorate seeking a fresh five year-term as the Governor of Mandera County Government. Download Manifesto. View All Events. Mandera County continued to register positive progress anchored on achieving Sustainable Development Goals SDGs despite challenges and the devastating effects of climate change, which saw prolonged dry spells followed by heavy rains and flooding. Floods displaced families, washed away crops and farming infrastructure and cut off roads.

This project funded by the UK government and run in partnership with Health Poverty Action has three phases: first, to understand the extent to which women in minority and indigenous communities access these health services less than women nationally and why; second, to run pilot projects to tackle the barriers that are preventing women from accessing services; and, finally, to lobby for wider adoption of the successful pilot project methods so that more women benefit from these innovations. At the time of writing we are in the first phase of this project. Some initial research focused on Mandera County in north-eastern Kenya, populated almost entirely by members of the Somali minority, has highlighted striking disparities in terms of access to essential care. Our surveys found that Somali women there were much less likely to access contraception a shocking 1. Is it any wonder that the maternal mortality ratio in Mandera County in was 3, for every , live births — more than 10 times higher than the national average for every , live births? We believe that when Somali women themselves ask the questions, the women are more honest than they would be with an external researcher about the factors that prevent them from accessing services.

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Mandera County, Kenya, Oct 19 IPS - For many women in Mandera County — a hard to reach, insecure and arid part of North Eastern Kenya — the story of life from childhood to adulthood is one about sheer pain and struggle for survival. As little girls, they undergo female genital mutilation FGM , a painful carving out of the external genitalia that leaves them with lifelong physical and psychological scars. Most girls will be married off when barely into their teens, forcing them to drop out of school, their immature bodies thrust into the world of childbearing. Mandera is an example of a marginalized community rife with internecine conflicts, pockets of extremism, poor human development and cross border terrorism , where residents are trapped in poverty, misery and desperation. Cultural norms like status of the women, FGM and child marriage makes it worse.