{"id":41688,"date":"2024-10-11T07:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T07:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=41688"},"modified":"2024-10-14T07:58:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T07:58:01","slug":"from-stateless-to-citizens-the-journey-of-the-shona-community-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/from-stateless-to-citizens-the-journey-of-the-shona-community-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"From Stateless to Citizens: the journey of the Shona community in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This policy brief examines the socioeconomic progress of the Shona community in Kenya since gaining citizenship in 2020-21. Previously stateless, the Shona faced barriers to formal employment, financial services, and social protection. Citizenship has enabled 86% of the community to obtain national IDs and significantly increased financial inclusion, with bank account ownership rising from 9% to 35%. Health insurance coverage has nearly tripled, and overall economic participation has improved. Despite these gains, the Shona community\u2019s employment rates remain below pre-pandemic levels, particularly for women. The report provides policy recommendations to further support the Shona and other stateless communities globally, highlighting the transformative power of legal recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Cite as: Rahman, Masud; Okute, Samwel Ochieng; Fix, Jedediah Rooney (October 2024). From Stateless to Citizens: the journey of the Shona community in Kenya (English). Nairobi: UNHCR.<\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/data.unhcr.org\/en\/documents\/details\/111718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/data.unhcr.org\/en\/documents\/details\/111718<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This policy brief examines the socioeconomic progress of the Shona community in Kenya since gaining citizenship in 2020-21. Previously stateless, the Shona faced barriers to formal employment, financial services, and social protection. Citizenship has enabled 86% of the community to obtain national IDs and significantly increased financial inclusion, with bank account ownership rising from 9% [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-intergovernmental-bodies","type-reports","item-year-695","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41692,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41688\/revisions\/41692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}