How TTT training has empowered groups to work for positive change in their communities. Youth-led activism against drug and substance abuse in Kangemi-Gichagi Alcohol and drug abuse continue to pose the biggest threat to health and well-being. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Drug Report, 2018; and WHOs Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health…
Insecure land rights for women are a very big threat to women empowerment and the fight on gender equality. Cases of women being disinherited after losing a spouse are common in Kenya. This has contributed to women and children being left destitute and vulnerable, compromising the lives of once happily settled families. After the promulgation of the 2010 Kenyan constitution…
Globally, accessing justice and protecting rights is a daily struggle for widows, alongside bread-and-butter issues that have become more difficult in the pandemic times, including the greater need for enhanced protection against health and human rights violations? In Kenya, a 2017 report by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics fails to mention widows at all, and it was not until 2019 that…
Land constitutes a productive asset and is a major source of capital for the poor in the rural and even urban centers, land is wealth. The importance of land and its unequal distribution between male and female has called for a rethinking of land reforms and women’s land rights in Malava sub county and other parts of western Kenya. Despite…
Africa Center for Nonviolence and Sustainable Impact- AfriNov is a peace-building and nonviolence training and advocacy organization based in Kenya working with grassroots groups and communities. Through the support of local and international development partners. AfriNOV has been carrying out community activities that improves and transforms the lives of people in some targeted communities. AfriNOV’s theory of change has the…
