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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...

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...

Clarice Akinyi, 35, Domestic Worker by a water tank in Mathare Ward, Mashimoni Village, Nairobi, Kenya. Photo Credit: Katie G. Nelson/Oxfam

Funding Mechanisms to Incentivize Sustainable and Inclusive Water Provision in Kenya’s Arid Lands

In the context of Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs), NGOs and donors, as well as private sector players, are exploring how they can help vulnerable populations to prepare and build resilience to extended drought sequences and climate volatility. The use of solar-powered water pumps (SWPs) is...

Leading from the front

Oxfam in Kenya awarded the most collaborative NGO by Kenya Revenue Authority for its work on Fiscal Justice. Tax Justice has been an anchor pillar of work under the Governance and Accountability programme for Oxfam in Kenya since 2015 with the rollout of the new Country Strategy. Recognizing the...

Fatuma Juma, her husband and last born daughter outside their makeshift house. Photo credit/Jeremy Mutiso

Recovering from floods

“These toilets have helped us maintain basic hygiene and prevent diseases because before that we were helping ourselves in the nearby bush which is dehumanizing,” Fatuma Juma. ALDEF, WASDA and Oxfam, under the ADAPT Consortium, with financial support from Sweden International Development Agency (...

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...