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- Forms of Child Labour in Marsabit
- Form of Child labour Indigenous community Extent of the form of Child labour
MarsabitMarsabit is one of the thirteen districts in eastern province. It covers an area of 66,000 square Kilometres, including an area of 4,956 square kilometres. Administratively, the district is divided into six divisions, twenty-eight locations and sixty-five sub locations. Politically, Marsabit is divided into three constituencies and one local authority, Marsabit county council. A major proportion of the district is arid with only the Marsabit town forming the highland being the high potential areas. Due to extreme poverty, aridity and on-going social exclusion Marsabit has been and continue to be synonymous with natural resource-based conflicts that has of late escalated into armed inter/intra –community violence as they fight for pasture and water. This has led to the deaths of children and women. Demographic and population Profile23
Source: ROK, Ministry of Finance and Planning, Marsabit development plan (2002-08) The children comprise (0-19 years of age) 56.7 % of the population and the ratio of female to male is 100:100. The district experiences recurrent incidences of drought, that has led to the increase in natural resource based conflicts. Poverty is wide spread in the district. The District development plan states, “Poverty can be described as a situation where by individual or households cannot afford basic food and non food items. Thus, they cannot satisfy their needs such as food shelter, clothing, education and health for their children. Poverty can be classified into three types; food poverty, overall poverty and hardcore poverty. Food poverty occurs where the population cannot meet average cost of food requirement per person thereby falling below the rural poverty line. The food poor forms 86% of the district population. The population that cannot meet the minimum cost of food and non-food items for human life and fall below the national overall poverty line are considered to be absolute poor and they comprise 88% of the district’s population. The hardcore poor is the social group that is unable to meet the non food requirement after spending all their income on food alone. This forms 82% of the district population. The data are based on the 2004 welfare monitoring survey. The district contributed 1.2 % of the national poverty. This is one of the poorest districts in Kenya. The above analysis on poverty does not consider other important elements such as access to human rights, justice among others.
The participants from Marsabit attending a national workshop to assess the child labour among the pastoralists’ communities mapped out Child labour as indicated below:
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