The Kenyan national response to internationally agreed sexual and reproductive health and rights goals

A case study of three policies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14950554
AutoresRose Oronje (0000-0001-9717-6392, African Institute for Development Policy, autor de correspondencia), Rose N Oronje
Año2013
Volumen21
Número42
Páginas151-160
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReproductive Health Matters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0968-8080 • E-ISSN: 1460-9576
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/s0968-8080(13)42749-0
PMID24315071
OpenAlexW2075163338
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas6

While priorities for, and decision-making processes on, sexual and reproductive health and rights have been determined and led mainly at the international level, conflicting power dynamics and responses at the national level in some countries have continued to pose challenges for operationalising international agreements. This paper demonstrates how these conflicts have played out in Kenya through an analysis of three policy-making processes, which led to the Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development Policy (2003), the Sexual Offences Act (2006), and the National Reproductive Health Policy (2007). The paper is based on data from a broader study on the drivers and inhibitors of sexual and reproductive health policy reform in Kenya, using a qualitative, case study design. Information was gathered through 54 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with governmental and civil society policy actors and an extensive review of policy documents and media reports. The paper shows that the transformative human rights framing of access to sexual and reproductive health, supported by both a strong global women's rights movement and progressive governmental and inter-governmental actors to defeat opposition to sexual and reproductive health and rights at the international level, has not been as influential or successful at the national level in Kenya, and has made comprehensive national reforms difficult to achieve

Civil society · Economic growth · Environmental health · Geography · Global health · Health care · Human rights · Kenya · Political science · Politics · Population · Qualitative research · Reproductive health · Reproductive rights · Sexual and reproductive health and rights · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Gender Politics and Representation · Human Rights and Development · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Sex work and related issues · Health Policy