Kenya marked the UN’s International Day of Democracy on September 15, and this year’s global theme — “bring human rights into focus” — landed at a pointed moment for the country’s civil society. With the 2027 general election now inside an 18-month runway, a cluster of Kenyan NGOs and coalitions is already doing the unglamorous…
Kenya’s 2026 floods displaced over 18,500 households. See how Red Cross and NGOs are running shelter camps, and what to prepare before October’s short rains.
Real salary ranges, free safeguarding certifications, and the volunteer-to-paid route that actually gets first-timers hired in Kenya’s NGO sector in 2026.
Cash transfers, savings groups and Inua Jamii compared, with real 2026 data on which poverty alleviation approaches NGOs and donors in Kenya should back.
By the NGOs.ke Editorial Team. Three real funding calls open to Kenyan organizations close between September 20 and September 23, 2026: two AU-EU Youth Action Lab grants (€31,500 and €42,000, for youth-led non-profits) and an Aqua for All call for water and sanitation enterprises operating in Kenya. All three are still accepting applications as of…
By the NGOs.ke Editorial Team. To register an NGO in Kenya in 2026, you first choose a legal structure — a Public Benefit Organization (PBO), a Community Based Organization (CBO), a trust, or a company limited by guarantee — then reserve a name, file your constitution and founding documents through the PBORA/eCitizen portal, and wait…
When floods, fires or other disasters hit Kenyan communities, the physical damage gets counted fast — homes lost, roads washed out, livestock drowned. The psychological toll is harder to measure but just as real, and in 2026 it’s finally getting an organized response. Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) runs the country’s main post-disaster counseling infrastructure:…
Kenya’s Oct-Dec 2026 El Nino rains could affect 2 million people as US aid cuts squeeze budgets. Here’s what NGOs should do now, and where funding still exists.
Kenya’s civic space rating has fallen to “repressed” ahead of International Day of Democracy 2026 — here’s what it means for NGOs and how to respond.
Kenya’s Interior Ministry has formally constituted a new multi-agency body to monitor non-profit organisations it considers at risk of terrorism financing, and every registered NGO in the country now falls within its watch. Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen gazetted the Multi-Agency Co-ordination Working Group on Non-Profit Organisations at Risk of Terrorism Financing in a notice…
