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Partnership

Oxfam/NGEC forge strategic partnership to drive gender equality and social inclusion

Billionaire wealth surges by $2 trillion in 2024, three times faster than the year before, while the number of people living in poverty has barely reduced since 1990

Oxfam predicts there will be at least five trillionaires a decade from now. 204 new billionaires were minted in 2024, nearly four every week. Sixty percent of billionaire wealth is now…

Daudi

Scottish Government pledges Ksh 48 million to Kenyan project to support ASAL communities facing climate change-induced loss and damage-Oxfam

The Scottish Government has today announced Ksh 48 million (GBP 250,000) of funding to support communities living in the arid and semi-arid region of Kenya to address the losses and damages created…

Flood Insurance

Britam partners with Swiss Re & Oxfam to launch index-based flood insurance solution

Britam Holdings Plc, in partnership with Oxfam in Kenya and global re-insurer Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd, has launched an Index-Based Flood Insurance solution in Kenya to cushion small-scale…

Millionaires from 13 countries petition world leaders at Davos to tackle the problem of extreme wealth as new analysis shows that the number of ultra-rich in Kenya has more than doubled in the last decade

As the World Economic Forum continues in Davos, Switzerland, over 200 millionaires from 13 countries have urged global leaders to face up to one of the world’s most neglected forms of extremism -…

As many as 28 million people across East Africa at risk of extreme hunger if rains fail again

As many as 28 million people across East Africa face severe hunger if the March rains fail. With theunfolding crisis in Ukraine taking their attention, there is a real danger that the…

Civil society groups celebrate IFC's divestment from profit-driven school chain Bridge International Academies

The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has quietly divested from New Globe Schools, better known as Bridge International Academies (BIA), a for-profit school chain operating in four…

Government must walk back on austerity to address worsening inequality

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed millions into poverty and dramatically increased inequality and poverty in Kenya. Approximately 2 million people were pushed into poverty in the first year of the…

Kenyan ASAL counties face a looming disaster as drought intensifies

Joint statement by the ASAL Humanitarian NetworkNairobi, 13 July 2021Following yet another below-average long rain season between March and May 2021, food security in the Arid and Semi-Arid Land (…

European Union Ambassador signed grant to transfer €5 million to assist 80,000 vulnerable Kenyans in ceremony moderated by Waihiga Mwaura

THIS Thursday, June 11, 2020, European Union Ambassador for Kenya, Simon Mordue signed a €5 Million grant that will enable a consortium of NGOs to provide cash transfers to 80,000 vulnerable Kenyans…