DR. IRENE AWUOR OWUOR

Title/Qualification: PhD, MA, BSc Position: Lecturer Department: Community Resource Management Contact Address: 43844-00100, Nairobi-Kenya Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Download Full CV

Research interest: Social Protection, Gender Equality & Social Inclusion (GESI), Social Impact Assessment, Child Protection, Community Resource Management and Public Health 

Areas of Specialization: Social Development, Community Resource Management and Leadership for Community Development

Board Membership: Advisory Board Member of Evidence Frontiers

Publication

• Owuor, I (2018) Relationship between Socio-demographic Characteristics of Motorcycle Taxi Riders and their Socio-economic Wellbeing: Case of Homa Bay County, Kenya
• Owuor, I (2009) Maternal Mortality: Can Kenya successfully reduce maternal mortality rate by 75% by 2015?, The Hague, Institute of Social Studies, 2009.

Research Conducted

• Relationship between Socio-demographic Characteristics of Motorcycle Taxi Riders and their Socio-economic Wellbeing: Case of Homa Bay County, Kenya
• Socially excluded? Kenyan Elderly and Participation
• Maternal Mortality: Can Kenya successfully reduce maternal mortality rate by 75% by 2015?
• Socio-political factors that aggravate poverty in Nyajure village of Bondo Constituency, Kenya
• Importance of exclusive breastfeeding for babies for the first six months of life.

Conference Attendance/Presentations

1. A seminar on Community Participation Towards Water Catchment for Sustainable Livelihoods-Presented at a conference in Entebbe, Uganda in June 2019  
2. A seminar on Promoting Alternative Care by Reversing Institutionalizing of Children in Kampala, Uganda in April 2016
3. Barriers to providing girls with equitable, quality education in Migori County, KenyaPresented at a conference in July 2012 in Kampala, Uganda. 
4. Challenges faced by children living in Internally Displaced Persons’ Camps in Nyanza Province during 2007/2008 Post-election Violence-Presented at UNICEF office, Kisumu in June 2008.

Administrative Positions held at the School of Public Health and Applied Human Sciences and Department of Population, Reproductive Health & Community Resource Management at Kenyatta University

• Departmental Post-Graduate Studies Coordinator
• Departmental Community Outreach and Extension Programs Coordinator
• Departmental Welfare Coordinator
• Departmental e-learning Coordinator

Membership to Organizations

Life member of Kenya Red Cross Society

Short Courses

• Scientific Writing for International Journals training. Attended from 6^th -9^th May 2019
• Water Sources Protection, Planning and Implementation. Attended in June 2019 at Water Resources Institute in Entebbe, Uganda
• Implementing Alternative Care in East Africa: Policy, Trends and Best Practices for Children Deprived of Parental Care. Attended in Kampala Uganda in August 2016
• Use of Smartboard in Teaching
• Youth-friendly Services Training