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Securing Communities’ Right to ‘Free Prior and Informed’ Consent in Kenya’s Extractive Sector

Extractive resources, when well-managed, have the potential to trigger broad based socio-economic transformation as they often result in windfall revenues and other economic benefits such as jobs and support for industrialisation. When these resources are poorly managed, they often result in socio-...

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...

Rebecca Ndeto,Kawangware,Nairobi Kenya.Photo credit:Eyeris Communications

Tax and Gender

Accountability a voice for the people.

Volunteer Azulu Adeba, 44, describes the poor drainage in his community, where he carries out tax monitoring work with the National Taxpayers Association in Kiambiu, Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya. 2016. Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi

Mobilising Progressive Domestic Resources for Quality Public Services in Kenya and Vietnam

‘I got involved with the project because I started wondering where my taxes go. Our constitution guarantees the right to information. That includes whatever [law] is passed by our leaders. We have a right to know how the taxes we pay are being used. It is important to follow up on taxes, because we...

Lokwamusing, a village in Turkana county of Kenya. Photo Credit/Blandina Bobson

A leaf from my diary- the 13th of February 2019

I am Lokwamusing, a village in Turkana county of Kenya. Long ago, some pastoralists came with their herds…I had abundant pasture for their cattle to graze. Some stayed back and some moved on to other places. I am known to be the notorious village, where cattle raiding causes human fatalities...

Black Gold

Black gold is such a depressing name for something considered so lucrative. A name coined for oil because of its black colour when it comes out of the ground and ‘gold’ because of the perception that it makes everyone in the oil industry rich. So much is the craze of this oil in Turkana that there...

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.

Operational levies affecting Rebecca's business

Programme Information The informal sector in Kenya plays a significant role in the economy and is said to account for close to 50% of GDP. The Government of Kenya has been seeking ways to broaden the tax base and consequently net in those operating in the informal economy. However, there are still...

The power of people against poverty