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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...

Mary Kwamboka,26, in her kiosk in Kawangware, Nairobi, Kenya. 2016. Photo Credit:Allan Gichigi/Oxfam

Current Kenya Tax System is not Fair! Kenyans say

This baseline report on the tax justice project gives detailed findings on the existing legislation on taxation, public participation, resource mobilization, allocation and expenditure in Turkana, Wajir and Nairobi Counties. The report proposes practical solutions to addressing citizens concerns in...

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

Finding a Solution to Food Insecurity in the Urban Slums of Kenya

Urban informal settlements in Kenya host approximately 2.5 million slum dwellers representing 60% of the Nairobi population (report of the Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey (NCSS) 2012. Nairobi: APHRC). The slums are characterized by poor infrastructure, crowded tin and wood shanties, poor...

Mary Kwamboka in her kiosk. Photo Credit: Allan Gichigi

Against all odds

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...