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Unconditional emergency cash transfer in progress. Photo Credit: Joyce Kabue

Innovation aiding Rapid Drought Emergency Response

Drought stricken arid lands, which are ranked among the poorest counties in Kenya, are currently experiencing delayed rains leaving local communities to grapple with low access to water for household and animal use, lack of food and grazing land for their livestock and at risk of contagious...

Elizabeth Wayua,31, a domestic worker feeds the baby of her employer in Pipeline, Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya. 2016. Photo Credit/Allan Gichigi

Food Insecurity in the City a disaster in waiting: Government action is needed

Food insecurity in the urban areas is becoming serious and requires urgent intervention before it becomes disastrous. Urban areas, especially the slums have high populations. In Nairobi alone, over 60% of the city’s population (5% of Kenya’s total population) lives in the slums - About...

Jane Muthoni, 50, on the roof of her building in Kawangware, Nairobi, Kenya 2016. Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi

Urban Early Warning Early Action

Oxfam and partners, Concern Worldwide, Kenya Red Cross, Nairobi County Government through the Start Network funded intervention; Urban Early Warning Early Action (UEWEA), is working to develop early warning systems and early action responses to crises that affect the poor people living in urban...

Victor Ondieki, 10, leaves his small home in Mukuru informal settlement, in Nairobi, Kenya, to walk to school at the Jaombi Foundation School. Photo Credit: Sam Tarling

The Nairobi County Disaster and Emergency Management Act 2015

Oxfam in Kenya is leading advocacy work for the Urban Early Warning Early Action (UEWEA) aimed at developing early warning systems and early action responses to crises that affect the poor people living in urban slums

Shifting the power to local humanitarian actors

Shifting the Power project envisions supporting local actors to take up their place alongside international actors to create a more balanced humanitarian system that is more responsive and accountable to disaster affected communities.

Women, girls, boys, men and aid workers are #NotATarget

As we mark the World Humanitarian Day 2017, we call on governments and world leaders to prioritize and invest in the protection of women, girls, boys, men and aid workers caught in disasters.

Innovations aiding rapid emergency response

saving lives and in the future

Aaron Macheso, Reuben Baptist primary school, Nairobi, Kenya. Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi / Oxfam

The Fresh Life Toilets for Safe Sanitation in Schools

Addressing the sanitation crisis in informal settlements by working with schools and local communities to provide adequate toilet facilities as well as hygiene education.

Racho Dulacha, 37 year old – Mudhe. Photo Credit/Melva Consulting

A Vaccine at a time: Strengthening the resilience and livelihoods of the people of Marsabit County

I started tending to my father’s herd of cattle when I was only 10 years old. I would be sent out to look for pasture in the fields and then come back in the evening when the animals had enough to eat and drink. Back then, we would move from one area to another with our livestock in search of...

They saved our animals, story of Halkano a pastoralist from Marsabit County

The year 2015 was particularly dry and we were forced to move our Satellite herds to Huri Hills where there was pasture, leaving behind only a few animals for our families to get milk. One morning as I was walking to the pen to release the animals for grazing, I noticed that two cattle looked dull...