Biography
I am Associate Professor of Social Policy at The International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. My scholarship centers on the relationship between policy, practice and theory for children, youth and their families in contexts of risk and marginalization. My research and teaching revolve around the themes of education, including care and development in the early years, child vulnerability, and child-sensitive social protection, (adolescent) sexuality and reproductive health with a specific focus on Eastern Africa. My scholarship building privileges research that is attentive to epistemic diversity, highlighting the need to foreground-situated accounts, which are often marginalized by the dominant narrative. In this endeavor of pursuing epistemic justice, I have built alliances with scholars in the region in nurturing and mentoring emerging researchers on Afrocentric, situated approaches. My current research outputs include a co-edited volume, Early Childhood Care and Education on the Margins: African Perspectives (Forthcoming 2018, Routledge); An Edited Volume, Social Protection for Vulnerable Children and Youth in Africa (Forthcoming 2018, CODESRIA Books); Ongoing research on young motherhood in Kenya/Uganda and an edited volume on Sexuality and Reproductive Health and Rights in Uganda. I am co-editor of the Routledge/ISS-EUR Gender and Sexuality Book Series. Using this scholarship to improve policy and practice, I have been involved in coordinating several externally funded research, development and capacity building projects in Eastern Africa. I am currently the Lead Researcher for Tanzania of a two-year Oak Foundation-funded research project “Adolescent Perceptions on Healthy Relationships in Tanzania and Bulgaria.” I am also the Overall Director of the four-year (2016-2020) Netherlands Government funded EUR-ISS project, “Strengthening Education and Training Capacity in Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SET-SRHR) in Uganda. ÂÂÂ
International Institute of Social Studies
- okwany@iss.nl
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Work
- D Boyco, W Elbers & Auma Okwany (2020) - How inclusive is the disability movement? The case of North-West Cameroon - [link]
- Auma Okwany & Elizabeth Ngutuku (2020) - Teaching and Researching in a Broken Vessel: The Gender Question
- Emma Frobisher, Willem Elbers & Auma Okwany (2019) - Gendered disability advocacy: Lessons from the Girl Power Programme in Sierra Leone - [link]
- Hasina Banu Ebrahim, Auma Okwany & Oumar Barry (2018) - Early Childhood Care and Education at the Margins: African Perspectives on Birth to Three - doi: 10.4324/9781351185158 - [link]
- Auma Okwany & HB Ebrahim (2018) - Creating visibility for birth to 3 in Africa: A push from the margins - doi: 10.4324/9781351185158 - [link]
- Auma Okwany (2018) - Evaluative Study of Eardrop Foundation's Early Intervention Programme in Kenya - [link]
- K Adalbertus, E Nyankweli & Auma Okwany (2018) - Governance dynamics in the provision of community based social protection services in Tanzania - [link]
- Elizabeth Ngutuku, A Munene, E Ombagi & Auma Okwany (2018) - Sexual and Reproductive Health Information and Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth In Kenya: A perspective on Contested Pathways - [link]
- Elizabeth Ngutuku, A Munene, E Ombagi & Auma Okwany (2018) - Sexuality and Reproductive Health of Deaf and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth in Kenya : Infantilising and Di(s)abling Discources - [link]
- Auma Okwany & Elizabeth Ngutuku (2018) - Social protection and citizenship rights of vulnerable children: a perspective on interventions by non-state actors in Western Kenya - [link]
- Auma Okwany & A (Annah) Kamusiime (2017) - Foregrounding the tensions and silences in education policies for student-mothers in Uganda and Kenya - Childhood in Africa, 4 (1), 57-69
- Kristen Cheney & Auma Okwany (2017) - Introduction: Toward social justice for children and youth in East Africa - Childhood in Africa, 4 (1 (Spring)), 4-10 - [link]
- Auma Okwany (2017) - Social Protection for Vulnerable Children and Youth in Africa
- Elizabeth Ngutuku & Auma Okwany (2017) - Youth as researchers: Navigating generational power issues in adolescent sexuality and reproductive health research - Childhood in Africa, 4 (1), 70-82 - [link]
- Auma Okwany (2016) - ‘Every mother dances her baby’: Contextually responsive narratives of early childhood care and education in Kenya and Uganda - South African Journal of Childhood Education, 6 (2) - doi: 10.4102/sajce.v6i2.464
- A Munene & Auma Okwany (2016) - Interrogating the ‘artificial’ divide between health and education for children aged 0–3 years in urban poor locales in Kenya - South African Journal of Childhood Education, 6 (2) - doi: 10.4102/sajce.v6i2.465
- Auma Okwany (2016) - Dislodging dominant ways of framing ECCE: A scholar-activist perspective - [link]
- Auma Okwany & HB Ebrahim (2016) - Epistemic Justice in Early Childhood Research in Africa (Keynote Address)
- Auma Okwany & R Wazir (2016) - Changing Social Norms to Universalize Girls' Education in East Africa. Lessons from a Pilot Project - [link]
- Auma Okwany, Kristen Cheney & A (Annah) Kamusiime (2018) - Adolescent Participatory Research: A Proactive Approach to Violence affecting Young People (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Kristen Cheney & Auma Okwany (2018) - Overcoming the Adult Gaze in Participatory Research with Young People (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Kristen Cheney & Auma Okwany (2017) - Childhood in Africa (Journal) (Editor)
Activiteit: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Auma Okwany (2015) - Diversity of Voice in ECD: Listening to Counter-narratives from the Margins (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Kristen Cheney & Auma Okwany (2013) - Neocolonialism and Homophobia in Uganda (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Auma Okwany (2009) - Children and Poverty: Notions of Childhood in Development Discourses and Policies (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Professional - Auma Okwany (2006) - Free primary Education: Are we postponing Exclusion? (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Professional
Board of Examiners
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-BOE-24-25
General Information
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISSGENERAL-24-25
3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-3105-24-25
5401 Research Paper
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-5401-24-25