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State Capture: On Kenya’s Inability to Fight Corruption

In May last year, the Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG) published State Capture – Inside Kenya’s Inability to Fight Corruption, a report that hit the country like a meteor. Perspectives spoke to Gladwell Otieno, AfriCOG’s director and long-time anti-corruption campaigner, about what motivated them to take a fresh view in the analysis of corruption, and what this means for civil-society action.

Publications

Energy Efficiency in Kenya: Public Awareness, Strategies, Challenges & Opportunities

Publication

This study is published in the framework of the transformAfrica program: Towards and ecological and social transformation in Africa. The study presents an analysis of the state of art of the energy efficiency in Kenya, in particular at the householder’s level, citizens and civil society actors.

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People and Power: Stories of Small Scale Renewable Energy Entrepreneurs in Kenya

New Publication

“People and Power: Stories of Small Scale Renewable Energy Entrepreneurs in Kenya” documents 11 renewable energy projects that highlight how decentralised renewable energy is empowering people across the country, and especially in rural areas which rely heavily on biomass energy sources due to the lack of grid connections.

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Sustainable Development

Capturing transformations in Africa: Artistic contest

Call for Contributions

In the framework of the transformAfrica Programme, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung (hbs) in collaboration with Le Cube, is looking for creative and artistic contributions capturing socio-ecological transformations in Africa. The artistic contributions are supposed to raise awareness on environmental challenges, and showcase best practices as well as successful ecological initiatives contributing to an inclusive and sustainable transformation in Africa.

Gender Democracy

Paying homage to Binyavanga Wainaina

Article

If life was a highway, then Binyavanga drove on the fast lane.

If he skidded, he hardly took the gas off the pedal. "(Ferdinand Omondi, BBC)

Dialogue and Civic Spaces

Civic Voices on the State of Eritrea

Report

Hbs Nairobi supported the convening of a diverse group of 16 Eritrean professionals and intellectuals in December 2018 to discuss the implications of the sudden amelioration of the relationship between Eritrea and Ethiopia earlier in the year. Over the 6 months which followed the workshop, participants engaged in intense consultations and decided to publish their joint reflections just a day ahead of Eritrea’s Independence Day on 24 May 2019.

Food Rights

#ToxicBusiness Twitter Chat

Article

Join us on Twitter (see poster for details) using #ToxicBusiness as we call on the Government to immediately withdraw pesticides containing active ingredients that are toxic to human health and the environment, and that threaten food security and food safety in the country.