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Climate shocks should not mean losing access to safe water💧In Isiolo County, droughts and floods often damage community ...
02/10/2026

Climate shocks should not mean losing access to safe water💧

In Isiolo County, droughts and floods often damage community water systems, leaving families, schools, and health facilities without reliable access to clean water when they need it most.

And this week, Oxfam Kenya, together with Britam Foundation, Davis & Shirtliff, MID-P KENYA, the County Government of Isiolo, Isiolo Water & Sewerage Company-IWASCO (IWASCO), and other partners, launched the WASH Climate Risk Insurance Project to help change that reality.

Through this initiative, seven community water systems will be protected under climate risk insurance, ensuring that when disaster strikes, resources are available to restore water services quickly and keep communities connected to safe water.

The project will also support 1,400 households through HospiCash, providing financial relief when a loved one is hospitalised and helping families cope with unexpected health costs.

Beyond insurance, the project will invest in preventive and curative maintenance of water systems, reducing breakdowns and keeping water flowing for the communities that depend on it every day.

Together, we are building resilience, protecting livelihoods, and ensuring that climate-related shocks do not become long-term crises for vulnerable communities.

Mercy Kieni Oduor Everlyne Situma

This week, Nairobi hosted the 4th Kenya Social Protection Conference, convened by the Ministry of Labour and Social Prot...
01/10/2026

This week, Nairobi hosted the 4th Kenya Social Protection Conference, convened by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection through the State Department for Social Protection and Senior Citizen Affairs and the National Social Protection Secretariat. Policymakers, county governments, UN agencies, civil society, the private sector and beneficiary representatives met under the theme Re-imagining Social Protection in an Evolving Socio-Economic Landscape and Climate Change. They took stock of progress since 2023 and looked at the gaps that remain.

On the final day, Oxfam Kenya was part of two conversations that matter to communities living with climate shocks and displacement.

In Breakout Room 1, our Executive Director, Mwongera Mutiga, gave the keynote on Building Resilience in Kenya's Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: Lessons from the Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP). Oxfam was among the organisations that worked with communities, government and partners to help conceive and launch the HSNP in its early years. At the time, many doubted that predictable cash transfers could work in remote pastoralist areas. Communities proved them wrong. They used the cash to protect livestock, keep children in school, access healthcare and keep their dignity through hard seasons.

"People do not lack resilience. Too often, what they lack is the resource buffer that allows them to withstand shocks without falling deeper into poverty." Mwongera Mutiga

He set out four lessons:

Resilience is built through systems, not projects.
The next frontier is scale.
Institutionalisation matters even more than innovation.
Localisation is not optional; it is essential.

Bernadette Nzomo (PBORA) moderated the session. The panel included , NDMA Kenya, Kenya Red Cross Society and World Food Programme.

In Breakout Room 2, Bessie Nikhozi, Oxfam Kenya's Social Protection Lead, moderated a session on the case for including refugees and host communities in Kenya's social protection system. Andrew Agumba gave the keynote, and the panel included the Department of Refugee Services, the REFUGEE CONSORTIUM OF KENYA (RCK), World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and UNICEF.

The conference closes today with a Joint Call to Action. In Mwongera's words: resilience is not built when a crisis arrives. It is built long before.

Ten women's rights organisations. Two cities. One thing they share: the women running them decide what their communities...
30/09/2026

Ten women's rights organisations. Two cities. One thing they share: the women running them decide what their communities need, and the funding follows.

Four of them no longer get a shilling from the Women's Rights Fund.

They came anyway.

Badili Africa . The Association of Women in Agriculture Kenya - AWAK. The for Women in Energy and Extractives in Kenya. Indigenous Resource Management Organization - IREMO. Funding ended; the work didn't. That is what the Women's Rights Fund is built to do, hand over flexible money and the power to decide how it is spent, then let organisations outgrow you.

Last week took us to Nairobi and Mombasa. We met women who survived violence and now run the services that catch the next woman. Grandmothers. Young mothers finishing school with babies on their hips. Women farming, mining, organising.

Then two days in one room on safe programming and gender transformative approaches. What works, what is hard, what nobody has figured out yet.

We finished at Mombasa Young Mothers' fourth anniversary, watching students graduate.

Trust the organisations. Fund them properly. Get out of the way.

In the room: Build and Enlighten communities Initiative-Beci · Dignity Foundation · Africa · Young Mothers · Association of Women in Agriculture Kenya · Desire Youth Initiative · Twaweza Empowerment Campaign Kenya · Her · for Women in Energy and Extractives in Kenya · Resource Management Organization · Centre for Domestic Training and Development

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Stronger local leadership starts with stronger local systems.The County Strategic Workshop on Climate and Disaster Finan...
28/09/2026

Stronger local leadership starts with stronger local systems.

The County Strategic Workshop on Climate and Disaster Finance Governance and Locally Led Humanitarian Leadership workshop in Garissa is bringing stakeholders together to examine financing, governance and accountability gaps, co-create advocacy priorities, and strengthen locally led responses to climate and humanitarian risks.

Through collective learning, evidence- based dialogue and joint action, the two-day wotkshop seeks to build a shared agenda to strengthen climate and disaster finance governance, improve accountability, and increase quality humanitarian funding managed by local actors in Kenya.

Local leadership is the foundation of effective and sustainable humanitarian action and local actors must be empowered with the resources, authority, and capacity to lead.

The meeting is jointly convened by the Institute of Public Finance and Oxfam Kenya with funding from the government of Netherlands 🇳🇱.

We're at the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa 2026 ( ) in Mauritius this week, pushing for ratification of the Malabo...
28/09/2026

We're at the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa 2026 ( ) in Mauritius this week, pushing for ratification of the Malabo Convention, the African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection, alongside CIPESA and the African Parliamentary Network on Internet Governance (APNIG).

Join our two panels, online and in person:

🔹 Shaping Our Digital Future Together: Pan-African Lessons on Civil Society Initiatives for Rights-respecting Digital Governance
📅 Wed, 30 Sept | 10:30 AM–12:00 PM EAT

🔹 Enforcing Digital Rights for Civic Participation in Africa
📅 Thu, 1 Oct | 9:45–11:15 AM EAT

Free registration: https://internetfreedom.africa/

ReCIPE is co-funded by the European Union.

25/09/2026

Local organizations are already leading crisis response in Kenya, but true localization requires more than implementation roles. It's time to shift authority, decentralize funding, and share risk management so local actors can lead sustainable, community-driven solutions.

We set out to establish real cost of locally led actions during disasters in Kenya.

24/09/2026

Floods don't have to become disasters. 🌧️

As Kenya braces for potentially above-average rainfall linked to El Niño, we urge communities, especially in ASAL regions like Marsabit, to stay alert and prepare for possible flooding.

Through the B-READY (Building Resilient, Adaptive and Disaster-Ready Communities) project, Oxfam and partners are helping vulnerable households act before disasters strike through anticipatory cash support, protecting livelihoods, assets, and futures.

Every $1 invested in anticipatory cash can help families avoid up to $7 in losses.

Extreme inequality is not inevitable. It is the result of policy choices, and different choices can build a fairer Kenya...
22/09/2026

Extreme inequality is not inevitable. It is the result of policy choices, and different choices can build a fairer Kenya.

Just 125 of the wealthiest Kenyans hold more wealth than 42.6 million citizens, nearly 77% of the population.

Meanwhile, 7 million more Kenyans have fallen into extreme poverty since 2015, surviving on less than KES 130 a day. It is a national catastrophe lying in wait!!

This is not just an economic crisis. It is a question of justice and morality 🤔.

The good news? 🫠 Change is possible. Reducing inequality by just 2% each year, alongside 2% economic growth, could cut extreme poverty three times faster than growth alone.

Kenya needs bold fiscal and economic policies that put people before privilege, invest in public services, and ensure the wealthiest pay their fair share.

Economic growth means little if it leaves millions behind.In Kenya, nearly half the population survives on less than KES...
16/09/2026

Economic growth means little if it leaves millions behind.

In Kenya, nearly half the population survives on less than KES 130 a day. Extreme inequality continues to widen the gap between the rich and the poor, making it harder for economic growth to reduce (read report 🔗 https://kenya.oxfam.org/latest/publications/kenyas-inequality-crisis)

Women who farm the land often lack ownership rights. Families face crushing healthcare costs. Rural and ASAL communities remain disproportionately affected by poor infrastructure, climate shocks, and limited access to quality services.

A fairer Kenya requires investments in public education, healthcare, climate resilience, and economic opportunities for those who need them most. It also requires a tax system that does not place a heavier burden on the poorest households.

Reducing inequality is not just about fairness. It is one of the most effective ways to fight poverty.

15/09/2026

Who taught you that care is a woman's job?

In many homes, one person carries almost all of it, and we rarely say it out loud.

In this film, faith leaders in Mombasa come together with women's groups, young people and partners to reshape the message their communities hear about who care belongs to. Because the places that shape our beliefs from childhood can also help share the load. 🎥 Watch and share.

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