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On going community baraza in Turkana County. Photo Credit: Jeremy Mutiso

The Early Oil Pilot Scheme: A Litmus Test of Kenya’s Oil Governance

The Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS) remains an important yardstick for how the government and the project proponent manage Kenya’s precious oil resources when commercial production starts. All effort…

Rose Wasiaya, 39, at her chapatti business in Korogocho, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo Credit: Katie G. Nelson/Oxfam

Women and Unpaid Carework

The Care work study was part of a four year broad programme funded by the European Union and spearheaded by Oxfam in partnership with SITE Enterprise Promotion, National Organization of Peer…

Nakaale Lopodo 22, a resident of Lokichar in Turkana County Northern Kenya. Photo Credit/Jeremy Mutiso

Sub-National payments in Kenya’s oil industry

This paper aims to give an overview of revenue benefit sharing in the context of Kenya’s oil development in Turkana. It outlines the importance of revenue sharing; what the different proposed…

Roda Lokaale, fetching water at an Oxfam supported water point in Turkana. Photo Credit: Joy Obuya

Sustaining universal access to water for all: Reflections from Oxfam WASH interventions in Kenya.

Oxfam is keen on working with communities, national and county government and local partners in exploring models that will ensure functionality of the water schemes embedded within citizen-led social…

The chaos, noise, and density of the slum is neatly juxtaposed with the orderly calm green of the Royal Nairobi Golf Club, which opened in 1906. Unequal Scenes - by Johnny Miller

Taxing for a more equal Kenya

The gap between the richest and poorest has reached extreme levels in Kenya. With 7,500 new millionaires set to be created over the next decade, it appears that a minority of wealthy individuals and…

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