Deliver for Good Kenya
Deliver for Good Kenya

Deliver for Good Kenya

The Deliver for Good Kenya Campaign is a coalition of national and local civil society and women’s rights organizations working to catalyze concrete actions that advance gender equality and implement the SDGs.

The Deliver for Good Kenya Campaign is a coalition of national and local civil society and women’s rights organizations working to catalyze concrete actions that advance gender equality and implement the SDGs.

Launched in November 2018,  Deliver for Good Kenya is a multi-year, coalition-based advocacy campaign bringing together diverse stakeholders to drive progress toward gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Kenya. We are a powerful network of cross-sector partners and allies – governments, civil society, and businesses – united in a shared commitment to prioritize girls and women across all development efforts.

Data in Kenya reveal both a need and opportunity for progress to be made by investing in girls and women to achieve development targets.

  • Access to Resources – Land Rights: In 2017, only 1.62% of all land in Kenya was owned by women (Kenya Land Alliance, 2018).
  • Economic Empowerment: In 2016, 80.9% of women to women business partnerships in Kenya were denied loans by micro finance institutions (Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, 2016).
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health to Achieve Universal Health Coverage: As of 2014, 18% of adolescent girls aged 15-19 years old in Kenya had already given birth or were pregnant with their first child (Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, 2014).
  • Political Participation: In 2018, women represented only 19% of the Kenyan National Assembly and 27% of the Senate, falling below the 33% constitutional requirement (Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2018).
The Deliver for Good Kenya Coalition is convened by the Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW) Kenya. Working across issues and sectors, these organizations are commited to collaborating together and shaping an advocacy agenda, grounded in the Kenya context, and policy priorities that will drive progress for girls and women across the country.

Informed by an in-depth policy analysis, coalition partners collectively defined a series of evidence-based policy recommendations to mobilize gender equality advocates and drive concrete changes for girls and women at the community, county, and national levels. These include:

  • Strengthen opportunities for civil society engagement in the Generation Equality processes and platforms to ensure implementation and accountability of the Government of Kenya’s commitments to end gender-based violence (GBV) and harmful practices.
  • Implement the National Land Policy’s principles of equitable access to land and secure land tenure – in both urban and rural settings – in accordance with the Constitution of Kenya (2010).
  • Increase government contributions to the Biashara Fund – a new government program for financial inclusion designed to offer women, youth, and people living with disabilities access to low-interest business loans – with a specific focus on girls and women.
  • Implement the National Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy at the county level as it relates to establishing comprehensive health services, using the policy’s Implementation Framework.
  • Cross-cutting: Strengthen official Kenyan data-collection processes and systems related to gender equality – with a specific focus on the Sustainable Development Goals and the four campaign policy priorities – to ensure systematic sex-and age-disaggregated data collection and use.

To deliver on this vision, the Deliver for Good Kenya partners have outlined a range of impact-oriented advocacy activities to guide our collective action over this multi-year campaign.  This advocacy plan builds on the strengths of partners and existing initiatives led by key stakeholders, while connecting community, county, and national levels gender equality and SDG efforts, to the global sphere.

To learn more about Deliver for Good Kenya, download the infographic here.

To learn more about Deliver for Good Kenya, download the FAQ here or contact the Campaign Secretariat via email.