Mwiti and Goulding (2018)

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Mwiti and Goulding

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2018

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2018

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Mwiti and Goulding

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What does the paper look at

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Gender issues and poverty in community-based organisations in Nairobi slums

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how do women cope with gender struggles

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Forming community organisations to help overcome challenges as a group

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Why do women face gendered challenges

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gendered exclusions, expectations, norms, roles and inequitable access to resources

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what are the community organisations called in Nairobi, Kenya

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Chamas

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What do feminist scholars emphasise

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the importance of looking at gender through intersectionality, as gender, race and class are combined

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when did ideas of intersectionality rise

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in the 80s

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How did women in Kenya originally lose power

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Colonialism - they became economically dependent on men. Law favours men over women.

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When was the Chama group established

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80s

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How did women in the Chama groups earn their living

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Both formal employment and running subsistence businesses in the slum, or doing casual work outside the slum

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gendered land ownership

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land ownership has only just become culturally acceptable for women in Kenya

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what is a key focus of the meetings

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to discuss business ideas that could provide income, such as buying land collectively or acquiring slum rental houses to lease out collectively

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Gendered norms and businesses

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gendered norms determine what enterprises are acceptable for women to operate

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How the Chamas have influenced government policies

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the Kenyan government has now set aside a fund to support such groups, to give them access to financial products and services to be used for various economic activities