Body Politics

By 2050, 70% of the world’s population will be living in towns and cities. One third of the urban inhabitants will live in densely populated informal settlements “slums”. Women and girls are often excluded from formal urban governance processes.

 

This collection of digital stories is co-created with (young) women in Nairobi, Kenya and Shillong, N-East India as part of the research methods research on women and girls empowerment. The stories are narrated and created by the women with facilitation by me and my Kenyan and Indian colleagues. The women strived to have their personal and moving stories heard by the government.

 

Collaboration:

India: In Shillong I worked with Banri Kynti Shisha Diengdoh, Chongneithem-Lhouvum, Darisuk Kharlyngdoh, Lipekho Moses Saprii, Preetha Prabhakaran and Sandra Albert of the Indian Institute Public Health (IIPH) Shillong.

Kenia: In Nairobi Emmy Kageha and I co-facilitated the digital story telling creative process.

 

Publications

• Oosterhoff. P., and Kageha Igonya, E. (2015) Constitutional Reforms and Access to HIV Services for Women in Low-Resource Settings in Nairobi, Kenya, IDS Evidence Report, Brighton: IDS

• Oosterhoff, P., Dkhar, B. and Albert, S. (2015) Understanding unmet contraceptive needs among rural Khasi men and women in Meghalaya, Culture, Health and Sexuality, 17: 9 1105-1118, DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2015.1042918

• Oosterhoff, P., Saprii, L., Kharlyngdoh, D. and Albert, S. (2015) When the Hen Crows: Obstacles that Prevent Indigenous Women from Influencing Health-care Policies – A Case Study of Shillong, Meghalaya, India, IDS Evidence Report 119, Brighton: IDS