Policy Briefs – National Council For Population and Development

Policy Briefs

Policy Brief No 1 of 2025 – Harnessing Kenya’s Demographic Shift for Sustainable Growth.

Policy Brief No 2 of 2025 – The Plight of Youth Not in Employment, Education or Training in Kenya

Policy Brief No 3 of 2025 – Bridging the Skills Gap: The Urgent Need to Scale Up TVET

Policy Brief No 4 of 2025 – Improving Maternal and Child Health: Addressing Short Birth Intervals and High-Risk Births in Arid Counties in Kenya

Policy Brief No 5 of 2025 – Health Financing in Kenya. The Gaps, Implications and Policy Options

Policy Brief No 6 of 2025 – The Dual Burden of Diseases, A Complex Health Challenge

Policy Brief No 7 of 2025 – Evolving Marriage and Family Patterns and their Implications on Wellbeing of the Family in Kenya

Policy Brief No 8 of 2025 – Child marriage and related harmful practices

Policy Brief No 9 of 2025 – Remittances and National Development in Kenya

Policy Brief No 10 of 2025 – Urbanization and Access to Essential Services

Policy Brief No 11 of 2025 – Harnessing Integrated Population-Health-Environment Approaches to Achieve Kenya’s 15 Billion Tree Agenda

Policy Brief No 12 of 2025 – Road Traffic Crashes: Implications and Policy Options

Policy Brief No 13 of 2025 – Bridging Population Data Gaps for Effective Planning and Policy.

ICPD30 Policy brief: Demographic Diversity in Kenya

ICPD30 Policy brief: The Future of Population Data Systems in Kenya

ICPD30 Policy brief: The future of SRH in Kenya

ICPD30 Policy brief: Future-proofing the ICPD through Science, Technology and Innovation

ICPD30 Policy brief: Climate change

FP Commodities Policy Brief

Policy Briefs-Private Sector

Policy Briefs- Public Sector

Policy Brief 71 Changes in Family Structure and Function and its implications on Children’s wellbeing in Murangá

Policy Brief 70_The Plight of Older Persons in Murang’a County Family Status in Kenya

Policy Brief 69_Voicing for Older Persons in Kwale County Family Status in Kenya

Policy Brief 68-FP Use Women 15-24 In Kenya Policy Brief Final

Policy Brief 67- COVID-19 and Older Persons in Kenya June 2020

Policy Brief 66- Manufacturing Agenda: Addressing the Youth Unemployment
Policy Brief 65- Affordable Housing
Policy Brief 64- Scaling up Nutrition
Policy Brief 63- Effects of Population Growth and Uncontrolled Land use on Climate Change in Kenya
Policy Brief 62- Improving Health Care Financing
Policy Brief 61- Why Population Issues are important

Policy Brief 60- Effects of population Growth on climate
Policy Brief 59- Increasing new HIV infections among

Brief 58 POPULATION AND FOOD SECURITY

Brief 57 ADDRESSING THE RAISING BURDEN OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN KENYA

Brief 56 YOUTH BULGE IN KENYA- A BLESSING OF A CURSE

Brief 55 YOUTH AT RISK-ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE IN KENYA

Policy Brief 54- Increase in Number of Older Persons – Is Kenya Ready

Policy Brief 53- Implication of Levels of Births Across Counties

Policy Brief 52- Health of Kenyan Children – Is It Better Today

Policy Brief 51- Engaging Men to Reduce Unmet Family Planning Need

Policy Brief 50- Harnessing Youth Potential for Economic Growth

Policy Brief 49- Investing in Education and Skills Development

Policy Brief 48 – Facilitating Fertility Decline for Demographic Dividend

Policy Brief 47 – Improving Health of Kenya’s Workforce

Policy Brief 46 – Reducing Maternal Deaths in Kenya

Policy Brief 46- Kupunguza Vifo Vya Wanawake

Policy Brief 45- Family Planning and Reproductive Health- Where are the Men

Policy Brief 45- Upangaji Uzazi – Wanaume Wako Wapi?

Policy Brief 44- Demographic Dividend – English

Policy Brief 44- Demographic Dividend – Kiswahili

Policy Brief 43- Education & Reproductive Health – English

Policy Brief 43- Education & Reproductive Health – Kiswahili

Policy Brief 42- International Conference on Population Development and Millenium Development Goals – English

Policy Brief 42- International Conference on Population Development and Millenium Development Goals – Kiswahili

Policy Brief 40 – Reaping Socio-economic Benefits from Kenya’s Population

Policy Brief 39 – Understanding Inequalities in Population and Reproductive Health in Kenya

Brief 38 – Differential Maternal Mortality in Kenya

Policy Brief 37 – Youth – Curbing Early Marriage Improves Prospects

Policy Brief 36 – Strengthening Kenya’s Health System for Better Reproductive Health

Policy Brief 35 – Accelerating Fertility Decline in KenyaPolicy

Policy Brief 34 – A Snap on Population Policy for National Development

Policy Brief 33- Population Health and Environment

Policy Brief 33- Changamoto za Idadi ya Watu, Afya na Mazingira

Policy Brief 32- Ending Female Genital Mutilation

Policy Brief 32- Kukomesha Ukeketaji wa Wanawake- Sheri

Policy Brief 31- Teenage Pregnancy is Harmful to Women’s Health in Kenya

Policy Brief 31- Mimba kwa Wasichana wa Umri Mdogo ni Hatari kwa Afya ya Wanawake Nchini Kenya

Policy Brief 30 -Addressing Sexual Reproductive Health Challeges in Kenya- The Poverty Dimension

Policy Brief 29 – Improving Sexual Reproductive Health Information and Services for Youth- Its Worth It

Policy Brief 28 – Regional Variations in Contraceptive use in Kenya-How Can the Gaps be Bridged

Policy Brief 27 – Family Planning Opportunities at County Governments Under the New Kenyan Constitutions

Policy Brief 26 – Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Kenya

Policy Brief 25 – Are Health Care Services Prepared to Serve Older Persons in Kenya

Policy Brief 24 -Child Health Services in Kenya

Policy Brief 14 – Rapid Population Growth Likely to Compound Impacts of Climate Change

Policy Brief 13 – Fulfilling Unmet Need for Family Planning Can Help Kenya Achieve Vision 2030

Policy Brief 12 – Gaining Ground – Recouping the Lost Decade for Family Planning

Policy Brief 11 – Protecting the Reproductive Health of Young People – An Investment in Kenya’s Future

Policy Brief 10 – Family Planning Inequality & Poverty

Policy Brief 9 – Maternal Deaths on the Rise in Kenya – A Call to Save Women’s Lives

Policy Brief 8 – Integrating Population, Health & Environment in Kenya

Policy Brief 7 – Environmental Factors Affecting PWDs

Policy Brief 6 – Combating Gender Violence in Kenya

Policy Brief 5 – The Other Half of the Equation – Involving Men in Family Planning

Policy Brief 4 – Migration, Urbanization, and Environment in Kenya

Policy Brief 3 – Women with Disabilities Need Reproductive Health Services Too

Policy Brief 2 – An Output Based Approach to RH – Vouchers for Health in Kenya

Policy Brief 1 – Seeking Solutions to Traditional Herbal Medicine – Kenya Develops a Policy