Reporting to the International Fundraising Director, this exciting new position within the International Fundraising Team will require the ideal candidate to:
Enable ActionAid country programmes to sustain and increase their income through providing great supporter care for child sponsorship and other individual fundraising products; Achieve the ambitious targets and change agenda the international fundraising strategic plan; Manage a team of international fundraising coordinators to build the capacity and capability of national operations. Deadline: 31 July, 2007

Most Kenyans support the creation of a United States of Africa, a recent research says. Kenya has the highest number of people supporting the idea at 57 per cent, followed by Tanzania at 51 and Uganda at 50, says the Steadman Group study. The idea is being pushed by Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi.

CEDAW), the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Kenya-based legal advocacy group Federation of Women Lawyers release a fact-finding report documenting decades of serious abusive treatment, including verbal attacks, sexual assault, flagrant neglect and filthy conditions suffered by women in the country’s maternity facilities.

“Onyo! Onyo! Onyo! Warning! Warning! Warning! … A warning has been issued to the people who are not from this region! This is our land from before! … Time has come for you to leave our land and return to yours! … Whoever disobeys will die! The Rift Valley Land Owners & Protectors army is ready to fight for its right till the last blood drop is shed!”

Frequent antiretroviral therapy (ART) switches in HIV-infected Kenyan urban adults might limit the efficacy of ART, according to the findings of an observational study published in the July 1st issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The authors sound the alarm that this is a potentially serious threat to the sustainability of HIV treatment programmes in Kenya and other developing countries.

The 2nd Annual Connecting Rural Communities Africa Forum 2007 will bring together African government officials, senior figures from African regulatory authorities and international ICT experts who are leading the private sector connectivity drive to discuss key challenges, opportunities and benefits of connecting rural Africa. The event runs from 21st – 24th August 2007.

Sometimes, numbers speak louder than words. Six years ago, the Kenya Women Finance Trust (KWFT) was losing around US$290,000 a year. By 2006, it was posting annual profits of US$1.87 million and changing the lives of more than 100,000 poor women. By any standard, this is a remarkable turnaround. But behind the numbers lies an even more remarkable story.

Politicians from leading parties and prominent human rights activists all seem to agree that the time has come for Kenya to abolish capital punishment. But as they continue to talk, courts continue to pass down death sentences, swelling the numbers on death row. On June 21, Justice and Constitutional Affairs Assistant Minister Danson Mungatana told journalists here that the government was committed to abolishing the death penalty.

The Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT (CIAT-TSBF) is an autonomous international agricultural research institute directed at the development of sustainable soil fertility management practices. TSBF-CIAT is seeking a qualified candidate to fill the position of a Research Assistant. The incumbent will be based in TSBF-CIAT’s office in Maseno, Western Kenya and shall occasionally be required to backstop work in Nairobi. Applications will be considered until 27 July 2007.

It is now settled that Kenya ’s public debt portfolio of US$10 billion is a matter of concern. That a substantial portion of it – over US$1 billion – relates to uncertain commercial creditors is a matter of urgent national importance. That by the admission of senior Treasury officials, some of the entries of commercial debt are falsified is a national scandal, says corruption watchdog, Mars Group.

An estimated 80 percent of Kenya's land mass is dedicated to pastoralism - a system primarily based on raising livestock in arid and semi-arid areas - yet it remains a much misunderstood way of life, according to participants in a workshop on pastoralism in Africa, held on 9-11 July in the eastern town of Isiolo.

In April 2007, equalinrights facilitated and supported a five day workshop for 21 representatives of grassroots organisations in Vihiga, Kenya. The main theme was: ’Empowering rural grassroots stakeholders to confront poverty through human rights-based approaches‘

Research Matters is recruiting a Program Officer to join the team, based out of IDRC’s Nairobi office. S/he will develop and implement projects and activities approved under the Research Matters project description and Governance, Equity and Health (GEH) prospectus, with particular emphasis on liaison with research users and close collaboration with SDC staff and partners in the field and in Berne. Closing Date is July 19, 2007.

Three United Nations agencies are seeking $32 million from donors to help cut malnutrition rates which they warned have reached “crisis levels” among children under five living in refugee camps in Kenya.

The Kenya government is launching a Digital Village Project to establish information and communications technology centres throughout the country. To jump-start the process, the programme is designed to train 1,000 digital village managers to manage the centres in the 210 constituencies in the country.

APC-Africa-Women, in partnership with Women'sNet, invite you to submit an application to participate in a digital storytelling workshop. This workshop is aimed at women who document (as content developers, librarians, archivists, journalists, mediators, translators, information activists etc.) the lives of women affected by violence in Africa.

Deadline 19th July

For more information see the APC website at:

Cost of living in Nairobi slums higher than minimum taxable income

Four Kenyan women, who were set to share their personal stories about undergoing abortion, had to pullout of a discussion forum at the last minute following threats and intimidation from anti-abortion activists.The forum, organised to initiate discussion on unsafe abortions, was disrupted by activists claiming to represent the rights of unborn children.

Something is brewing at the Kenya Police Airwing and it’s not smelling too good, writes Mwalimu Mati Documents have come to light regarding the award of a US$12.8 million (Ksh 840 million) contract to overhaul 4 Russian built helicopters operated by the Kenya Police Airwing.

It would appear that 9 years after they were bought in 1998, these 4 helicopters have consumed close to US$ 15 million each and Kenyans are now being asked to spend an additional US$ 12.8 million to overhaul them. This calls for an immediate explanation from the Government of Kenya as to why we are throwing good money after bad, servicing these second hand helicopters which have done nothing to improve either our debt or security situation.

Kenyans are also entitled to know what action is contemplated against the public officers (Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and Police Commissioners) over the years who have charged our collective account with what is clearly a bad deal worth over US$ 60 million or Ksh 4.2 billion.

Until these documents surfaced, as far as we knew, the matter of the junk helicopters was at a rest. The position, as we knew it to be, was that as of June 30th 2006, the outstanding debt related to the helicopters remained at just under Ksh 350 million and that this debt was recorded as being owed to J.S. Schroder Bank. It was our hope that the investigations by Kenya Anti Corruption Commission and the special assignment of Price Water House Coopers would eventually reveal the truth about these expensive helicopters, and which public officers and their associates we would be demanding to see punished for the misadventure.

What we could never have imagined is that in 2007, the helicopters would still be used to appropriate even more tax money (actually Ksh 840 million) in what is a dubious contract to overhaul them.

Productivity among workers in the private sector who receive antiretroviral therapy through employee health schemes may not always return to pre-illness levels, according to findings from Kenya. Jonathan Simon of Boston University told the HIV Implementers’ Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, that companies may have to look at earlier initiation of treatment if they want to see workers return to full productivity.