Case Study: Overcoming Child Wasting in Africa’s Mandera Triangle

Child wasting—that is, low weight for height, reflecting acute undernutrition—is the most dangerous form of malnutrition. Affecting 13.7 million children a year worldwide, wasting is responsible for up to 20 percent of deaths of children under the age of five (Osendarp et al. 2025).

A Closer Look at Hunger and Undernutrition in Kenya

A Mixed Picture: Poverty Reduction, Rapid Population Growth, and Extreme Weather

Community Resilience in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa

Extremely poor people, Concern believes, have few assets or achieve little return on the assets they own. They cannot escape extreme poverty because of structural inequalities and because of risks and vulnerabilities.

How Food Price Spikes and Volatility Affect the Urban Poor: Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya

The following case study by Concern Worldwide gives some insight into the real and insidious impacts of food price increases and volatility in the slums of Nairobi.

Linking Women’s Economic Empowerment and Tackling Hunger - The Complexities of Work and Care in Korogocho slum, Nairobi, Kenya

For Concern Worldwide, gender mainstreaming is an integral component of all projects and programmes. It is a cross-cutting issue which relates to all decision-making processes and affects all fields of activity at all levels.