Kenia’s indigenous food systems - and how the pandemic has been an invitation to continue to learn from food. Published: 4 November 2020 Background The Kenyan Route to Food Initiative (RTFI) is a food rights programme of the Heinrich Böll Foundation based in Nairobi with the aim of promoting innovative discussions and solutions to the problem of chronic food insecurity in Kenya.
Decriminalizing homosexuality in Kenya Published: 15 February 2019 On the 24th of May 2019, Kenya's High Court will decide whether the sections of the Kenyan penal code that proscribe homosexual activity are unconstitutional. The Kenyan National Gay and Lesbian Commission (NGLHRC) has for years been fighting to repeal these laws. By Caroline Kioko
Community Protocol Tool Box and Project Report Published: 7 February 2017 The NGO Natural Justice and its regional partners, with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, have jointly assisted a number of communities to develop community protocols in the context of extractive industries. You can download them and the project report here.
Maina Kiai: "Our Ideas keep living on" Published: 13 September 2016 United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, explains in this interview with Christine Meissler why he will never give up fighting for democracy and human rights. By Christine Meissler
LGBTI Civil society organizations and the rights to peacefully assemble and associate Published: 13 September 2016 Civil society organisations can be a vanguard of progress for the LGBTI community. Despite the growing number of laws and policies impeding LGBTI advocacy, activists and organisations successfully challenge these trends. By International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL)
How the Bangla-Pesa tapped the Value of an Informal Community Published: 25 January 2016 What if a poorer community created its own currency to foster social exchange? We interviewed Ruddick, the founder of the Bangla-Pesa to learn more about his remarkable experiment in community-based money. By Will Ruddick
Video: "Tell stories that are not often heard" Published: 19 February 2015 In our interview Jim Chuchu, director of the film "The Stories of Our Lives" and Njoki Ngumi (screenplay) explain their motivation to realize the film. By Jelena Nikolic
Kenya: „Society makes us invisible“ Published: 3 March 2014 Being queer is still a stigma in Kenya and leads to social invisibility. With his Book "Invisible" the Kenyan author Kevin Mwachiro challenges the myths about alternative ways of love and living. By Caroline Ausserer
