Press release

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...

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...

Tabitha Nyambura of NGEC and Elizabeth Mueni Oxfam during the launch of the #VoteADada campaign. Photo Credit: Solomon Kihara

Vote A Dada Launch

Working together towards increased women participation and representation in the 2017 General elections. Oxfam, FIDA-Kenya and Youth Agenda with financial support from the European Union on 30th August launched “Vote A Dada” campaign calling for increased women participation and...