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...
Strengthening Community Livelihoods is a five year programme funded by the Government of Australia through Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
