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  • What the New Governance Structure Means to ActionAid Kenya

    As dust settles on Kenya’s General election, the county governments are slowly taking shape. For ActionAid it is a new dawn, a new era, an opportunity to do things differently and maximize on our...
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • Devolution
    • elections
    • governance
    • Opprtunities
    • women
    • Governance
  • Strengthening Community Livelihoods

    Strengthening Community Livelihoods is a five year programme funded by the Government of Australia through Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). 
    • Campaign
    • Africa
    • Australia
    • Campaigns
    • food rights
    • livelihoods
    • women
    • Climate Change
    • Food rights
    • HungerFREE
    • Womens Rights
    • Youth
  • Women balancing Gender in new bill

    The ActionAid partner-organisation, Women’s Political Alliance Kenya (WPA) works to ensure gender balance in decision-making and new laws. Caren Gesare Oginda is coordinating the work and ensuring...
    • Campaign
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    Caren Oginda

Blogs & Comment

  • Tax Justice is our responsibility

    The Tax dialogue in many African countries has for a long time been left either to the tax collectors trying to reach their annual almost always 'bursting targets' or to the government technocrats....
    Pascaline
    by:
    Pascaline Kangethe
    Monday, 29 April 2013 – 11:50
    • Campaign
    • Education
    • Governance
    • Youth
  • A cry for sustainable peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    While attending a press briefing organized by ActionAid International Kenya, I was very moved as I watched a Congolese woman, Jeanie Bandu break down in tears while sharing the experiences of women...
    Jeanie Bandu At AAN Press Conference
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    David Habba
    Monday, 3 December 2012 – 20:46
    • Kenya
    • Rwanda
    • blogger swarm
    • Emergencies & Conflict
    • food
    • HungerFREE
    • rights women
    • Emergencies & Conflict
    • Food rights
    • Governance
    • HungerFREE
    • Womens Rights
  • Youths: Are they equipped to be drivers of Change?

    I find myself lost between a rock and a hard place when I have to articulate issues’ regarding the youth. Being a youth in this generation comes with a lot of opportunities and challenges but in a...
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    Catherine Wanjiru
    Tuesday, 7 August 2012 – 12:00
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • ActionAid activities
    • Economics, business and development
    • employment
    • International Youth Day 2012
    • Jobs
    • market
    • Market
    • Youth
    • youths
    • Income
    • Education
    • Governance
  • The path to food security in Kenya

    One year ago, Kenya among other countries in the horn of Africa was affected by the worst drought in 60 years. Suddenly we needed to scale up our emergency response. We identified an urgent need to...
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    Enrico Eminae
    Thursday, 19 July 2012 – 15:01
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • Food rights
  • One year later, there is hope

    She was a victim of the food crisis that threatened the lives of millions of people across East Africa a year ago. To her, help came in time and she survived. I have met six-year-old Sadia Abdullah,...
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    Collins Odhiambo
    Wednesday, 4 July 2012 – 08:24
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • Africa
    • community
    • drought
    • emergency
    • food
    • goats
    • health
    • hunger
    • Land and food
    • livestock
    • monitoring
    • people
    • relief
    • resilience
    • rice
    • support
    • water
    • Climate Change
    • Emergencies & Conflict
    • Food rights
    • HungerFREE
  • Children who will stop at nothing but go to school

    Adipo Lodeng’o and his younger cousin Tiliot Lonrokemer lost their dreams of ever going to school from a tender age. On the eve of ActionAid’s 40 years celebrations in Tangulbei, a thought crossed...
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    Lucy Wanjiku
    Sunday, 15 April 2012 – 17:19
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • Education
  • A woman with five goats and a mission

    The rivers are flowing and the grass is finally green in Kongelei, the pastoralist community in North Western Kenya. Here, I mostly meet women and children, as many men have left the villages in...
    Mary Kalhelan, kenya, goats, HIV
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    Soren Bjerregaard
    Tuesday, 24 January 2012 – 12:55
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • East Africa drought
    • food rights
    • goats
    • Land and food
    • market
    • Climate Change
    • Emergencies & Conflict
    • HIV / AIDS
    • HungerFREE
    • Womens Rights
  • COP17 - Show me the money

    Every year, countries that have signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) gather to discuss next steps on fighting the climate crisis.  This year, 194 countries...
    Rich countries: pay your climate debt
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    Ilana Solomon
    Monday, 28 November 2011 – 12:54
    • Africa
    • COP17
    • Climate Change
    • Food rights
    • HungerFREE
  • Sub-Saharan girls held back by child marriage and violence

    Parents’ approval of forced, under-age marriages and general acceptance of domestic violence and corporal punishment are major obstacles to girls in sub-Saharan Africa completing their primary...
    Kawaza school classroom
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    Julie Juma
    Tuesday, 22 November 2011 – 14:39
    • Africa
    • child rights
    • Child/Children
    • stop violence against girls in schools
    • Education
    • Womens Rights
  • Road to Empowerment

    Sakota Guyo has witnessed years of cyclic droughts and the devastation that seeps in with them. He is sixty years old, and as people in other arid parts of Kenya queue for relief food to help them...
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    Monday, 17 October 2011 – 17:06
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • small holder farmers
    • Climate Change
    • HungerFREE
  • I was forced to abandon my wife and son in the bush

    I could feel the sweat trickling down my neck.  It was 8 am in the morning and the scorching sun of Northern Kenya was high above me; the heat wave seeping energy from every living thing in...
    Child in Daadab refugee camp; East Africa Drought
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    Collins Odhiambo
    Wednesday, 28 September 2011 – 14:24
    • blogger swarm
    • Daadab
    • East Africa drought
    • Emergencies & Conflict
  • No river in Sericho for 3 years

    During our days assessing the impact of the drought in Sericho District, we stayed in a town called Modogashe. It is a sleepy town that is divided by a large sand bank riddled with large craters....
    Joseph Elmilim, Ngaremara Village, Isiolo
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    Ssanyu Kalibbala
    Tuesday, 12 July 2011 – 10:12
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • East Africa drought
    • river
    • water
    • Education
    • Emergencies & Conflict
    • Food rights
  • Seeing the food crisis first-hand

    We’re on our way to drought-stricken Isiolo from Nairobi to see the work that ActionAid is doing in response to the drought. In the past couple of hours, the view out of our car window has changed...
    Joyce Masah Muthiye, Kenya, Eastern Africa food crisis
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    Ssanyu Kalibbala
    Thursday, 7 July 2011 – 16:34
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • East Africa drought
    • food crisis
    • Emergencies & Conflict
    • Food rights
  • Making a mark with feeder schools

    When ActionAid set up an office in Kwale district in 1999 one of the biggest challenges was lack of access to schools. With an enrolment rate of merely 10 percent and literacy levels of seven percent...
    Making a mark with feeder schools
    by:
    Melvin Chibole
    Wednesday, 27 April 2011 – 16:05
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • Education
  • Don’t evict my people for biofuels

    My name is Joshua Kahindi Pekeshe and I’m a village elder from the Watha Tribe living in Kenya’s coast region. My people are poor. But we live in a rich natural habitat called the Dakatcha Woodlands...
    Joshua Kahindi Pekeshe at his farm in the Dakatcha Woodlands
    by:
    Joshua Kahindi Pekeshe
    Wednesday, 16 March 2011 – 15:00
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • Europe
    • Biofuels
    • Land and food
    • land rights
    • Food rights
    • HungerFREE

Spotlight

  • Rays of Hope beam on Mwingi Central

    Mwingi Cental, in Kitui County, Kenya locally referred as Ukambani, has over the years been known for recurrent droughts and crop failure. During last year’s drought season, Ukambani was the hardest...
    • Climate Change
    • Food rights
    • HungerFREE
    • Womens Rights
    Margaret Kanini
  • Fighting famine in Isiolo, farming is the way to go

    Gitonga Johnson Steve is a happy man. For the three years that he has worked as the Local Project Advisor for the Kambi Sheikh Self Help group, in Isiolo county, Kenya he has seen his fellow...
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • East Africa drought
    • Emergencies & Conflict
    • Food rights
    • HungerFREE
    Gitonga Johnson Steve Food for Assets Isiolo
  • Frontline SMS: pastoralists check stock prices on their mobiles

    Sellina Narumbe is a pastoralist from Isiolo, northern Kenya.  Reliant on her livestock for her survival, she has been hit hard by the ongoing drought sweeping parts of the country.  Lack...
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • East Africa drought
    • women smallholder farmers
    • ICT4D
    • Emergencies & Conflict
    • HungerFREE
  • Information helps combat food insecurity in Kenya

    In any emergency, be it natural disaster or man-made, long- or short-term, people's lives are turned upside down. Knowing what's happening, where to go for assistance and who to call for help is...
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • East Africa drought
    • Freedom Fone
    • ICT4D
    • Emergencies & Conflict
    • HungerFREE
  • Stories of hope

    Haretha Hussein, Chairlady of the Widows and Divorcees Association, an ActionAid supported women’s group in Ijara District, Kenya explains how her members have avoided the worst effects of the...
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • East Africa drought
    • education for all
    • Woman/Women
    • Emergencies & Conflict
    • HungerFREE
    58 year old Haretha Hussein is Chairlady of the Divorcees and Widows Association
  • Farming in fear

    Drought has left women farmers like Fatuma Wario in fear for their lives despite access to a fertile area to grow food on.
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • East Africa drought
    • women farmers
    • Emergencies & Conflict
    • HungerFREE
    • Womens Rights
    49 years old Fatuma Wario with orange scarf
  • School meals

    When 10-year-old Badasa Hussein’s dad ran away, he was left to look after his mother and four sisters. School meals are all that keep his family alive.
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • Child/Children
    • East Africa drought
    • food
    • Land and food
    • Emergencies & Conflict
    • Food rights
    Badasa Hussein survives on School Feeding, Sericho, Northern Kenya
  • Nipe Nafasi - Give me a chance

    Evidence shows that for girls around the world, exercising their right to education can be a very risky enterprise.
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • Climate Change
    • Womens Rights
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