Uzalendo Afrika Initiative

04/05/2026

📌At Uzalendo Afrika Initiative we are intentional about shifting mindsets because accountability is not just a concept, it is a practice.
When young people understand how to use tools like community scorecards, when they can track how resources are used, and when they feel confident to engage leaders something powerful happens.

Before, we thought oversight was for leaders. Now we know it belongs to us too.”
This is the kind of reflection we heard from a Senate grassroots oversight committee member after our recent sessions under the Political Lab.

Accountability Lab Kofi Annan Foundation Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Kenia Kettering Foundation Feminist for Peace Rights and Justice Centre Femnet Secretariat

02/05/2026

📌We were proud to participate in the Time to Care Project workshop by Oxfam Kenya where we had our very own Tom Kazungu and our feminist policy fellow Fatma Mohammed Abdillahi .

We asked ourselves What if the work that holds our families and communities together was finally seen, valued, and supported? It was clear that women carry the largest burden of unpaid work care in Kenya almost over 80% .

As Uzalendo Afrika Initiative, we are committing to:
✔ Integrate care work into our advocacy and programming.
✔ Champion community conversations that challenge harmful gender norms.
✔ Push for county-level investment in social infrastructure
✔ Advocate for the ratification of ILO Conventions 189 & 190
Care work is sustaining our economy it's time policy reflects that.

Oxfam Kenya Feminist for Peace Rights and Justice Centre Nile Youth Development Actions Fight Inequality Alliance Femnet Secretariat Kettering Foundation

28/04/2026

📌 The power of sustained collective advocacy.

Yesterday marked more than just a groundbreaking ceremony it was the result of years of consistent community advocacy, youth engagement, and collective action.

We are happy that the efforts that were contributed through our work at Uzalendo Afrika, especially under the program (2022–2023) finally yielded results . young people and grassroots leaders in Kongowea refused to stay silent. They organized, they engaged, and they kept the conversation alive around the urgent need to upgrade Kongowea Health Centre.

From sustained dialogue forums to grassroots committee actions and most recently, through our collaboration with the Office of the Senate this has been a journey powered by community voices.

Yesterday, as the Governor of Mombasa laid the foundation for Kongowea Health Centre to be upgraded to a Level 4 facility, we were reminded of one thing:

Impact doesn’t happen overnight it is built through persistence, partnerships, and people who care enough to keep showing up.

This milestone belongs to the people of Kongowea. To the young advocates. To every voice that refused to be ignored.

To the sustained dialogue teams from kongowea ,to the grassroots Senate oversight committees,to the collective voice of the coast civil society and most importantly to the community of Kongowea we are proud of you 👏.

Accountability Lab Kettering Foundation Nile Youth Development Actions Kofi Annan Foundation Feminist for Peace Rights and Justice Centre

25/03/2026

Uzalendo Afrika Initiative was honored to be part of the Accountability Lab Fundraiser in Nairobi.

The evening brought together inspiring individuals and organizations dedicated to strengthening accountability, transparency, and good governance. It was a meaningful space for connection, learning, and reaffirming our shared commitment to building just and accountable societies.

A lot of solidarity demonstrated in the space to rethink our work as practioners .

We remain committed to advancing citizen-driven accountability and working collaboratively towards a more equitable and transparent Africa.

Model Africa Union -Ethiopia

22/02/2026

21/02/2026

African Languages Week ( 21st - 28th February, 2026)

Commemorated annually, African Languages Week is a time dedicated to celebrating, protecting, and restoring African languages; the living carriers of our history, knowledge systems, spirituality, and identity.

It begins with International Mother Tongue day on 21st February and ends on the 28th. It takes place within the broader Decade of African Languages (2022–2032) declared by the African Union; a ten-year continental commitment to revitalise, standardise, fund, and mainstream African languages in education, governance, media, and technology.

It matters because language is power.

Colonialism did not only take land and labour; it attacked the African tongue. Children were punished for speaking their mother languages. European languages were elevated as “official,” while African languages were marginalised. This was a strategy of control.

When a language is silenced, memory is silenced.
When memory is silenced, power is weakened.

That is why African Languages Week is not just celebration, it is a call for reparative justice. Reparations must include restoring our languages in schools, policy, scholarship, and public life. Speaking our languages is not backward. It is resistance. It is restoration. It is sovereignty.
Please look out for activities throughout the week.

To decolonise Africa, we must decolonise the tongue!

19/02/2026

19/02/2026

📌 Strengthening the mandate of youth in the Senate oversight grassroots committees for effective delivery of their mandate.

We successfully convened Session 3 & 4 of the Political lab Cohort 4 in partnership with the Office of the Senator Hon Faki Mwinyihaji with the support of through the Kofi Annan Foundation

These sessions centred on Community Score Cards and Social Accountability as participatory governance tools that enable citizens to directly monitor public service delivery, institutional performance, and budget responsiveness.

Through this political education space, Senate grassroots oversight committees, young journalists, and youth in civil society are being equipped to:

✔️Institutionalize community feedback mechanisms
✔️Track public resource utilization
Facilitate evidence-based dialogue with duty bearers
✔️Advance transparency, accountability, and responsive leadership.

Together, we are building a new generation of accountable and collaborative leaders .

Nile Youth Development Actions Kettering Foundation Accountability Lab Fight Inequality Alliance European Union in Kenya Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Kenia Feminist for Peace Rights and Justice Centre

19/02/2026

Many thanks for being part of this

05/12/2025

📌As we begin the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence Uzalendo Afrika stands firmly behind this year’s global theme:

“UNiTE to End Digital Violence against All Women and Girls.”

Digital violence is rising and its impact is real. From online bullying and harassment to non-consensual image sharing and the silencing of feminist voices, women and girls across Kenya, including the Coast region, are facing new forms of harm.

Together with our feminist policy fellows in project, we are working with young women, community leaders, tech users, and grassroots movements to:

✨ Build awareness on safe digital practices
✨ Call for the implementation of the Malabo convention and ratification of the African Union convention on ending gender based violence .
✨ Strengthen reporting mechanisms in communities
✨ Advocate for safer, more accountable online spaces
✨ Create platforms where women and girls feel seen, heard, and protected

This is our moment to say: violence has no place in our digital lives.

Let’s keep raising our voices.
Let’s support survivors.
Let’s demand safer, inclusive digital spaces for all women and girls because online safety is a Feminist issue .

Join us, share widely, and be part of the change. 💜✊🏾

Femnet Secretariat Kofi Annan Foundation
Swahilipot Hub Feminist for Peace Rights and Justice Centre International Center for Peace, Human Rights and Development-IPHRD Africa