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Stranded pedestrians in a flooded street in Nairobi. Credit | Eastleigh Voice

Before the Storm Breaks: Why the World Must Act on Disasters Before They Happen

June 24, 20260

Anticipatory action (AA) is deceptively simple: it is the practice of releasing pre-arranged funding and delivering assistance before a predictable disaster strikes, rather than scrambling to respond after the damage is done. It connects early warning systems — weather forecasts, drought indices, flood models — to pre-agreed plans and pre-committed money, so that when a trigger threshold is crossed, help moves automatically.

Ajay Banga is the World Bank President. Credit | Connecting Africa

Beyond Grants: How Kenyan NGOs Can Reinvent Their Financial Future

June 19, 20260

By Wahome Ngatia For decades, development funding worked like a relay race. Donors carried the baton. NGOs ran the programs. […]

Beyond Wealth: How the Chris Kirubi Foundation Is Turning a Business Icon’s Legacy Into Social Impact

June 17, 20260

By Wahome Ngatia When Kenyan entrepreneur Chris Kirubi died in June 2021, tributes poured in for the billionaire industrialist who […]

Kipchumba Murkomen, CS of Interior and National Government oversees gave PBOs in Kenya one more year to transition to the new PBO Act. Credit | Ministry of Roads

Adapt or Die: Kenya’s NGO Revolution Has a Deadline — and Most Are Still Asleep

April 29, 20260

The May 13 deadline is not a bureaucratic inconvenience. It is the moment Kenya's civil society separates the institutions built to last from the ones built to invoice. When that date passes, the government's collaboration language will mean something concrete for those who registered, restructured, and showed up — and absolutely nothing for those who did not.

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Job Opportunity at KCDF

April 28, 20260

Location: Nairobi, KenyaApplication Deadline: 8th May 2026 KCDF is seeking a qualified and experienced Senior Accountant to support financial management, […]

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We’re Hiring: Global Programs Connect Consultant

April 28, 20260

Organization: Equality FundLocation: Remote (Global)Duration: 2–3 monthsBudget: CAD 70,000Deadline: May 4, 2026 Role: Support coordination and delivery of global programs, […]

Irungu Houghton is the Executive Director of Amnesty International Kenya. Credit | Amnesty International

Kenya’s Shrinking Freedoms: A Mirror of East Africa’s Deepening Crisis

April 24, 20260

What distinguishes Kenya, and East Africa more broadly, is the degree to which repression has become both institutionalised and, in some cases, exported. Kenya is not a military junta, nor a post-conflict state clinging to fragile authority. It has functioning courts, a vocal civil society, and a constitution widely praised at its 2010 drafting. That the state is nonetheless deploying anti-terror laws against protesters and directing autopsies to be contradicted by police press releases suggests something more troubling than a governance failure. It suggests a deliberate choice.