Our work in
Kenya
Our work in
Kenya
Kenya has a highly liberalized, dynamic and multilingual media environment, with more than a hundred radio stations broadcasting in a range of languages. We began working there in 2014 in and around the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps on radio programs promoting girl-child education, in partnership with WUSC. We also ran a highly successful research-for-development project supported by IDRC on the cultivation and sale of common beans, setting the foundation for our work with private companies that source product from small-scale farmers. Currently, we are working with the Rockefeller Foundation and Technoserve on an innovative behaviour-change project focused on post-harvest loss in the mango value chain. With our new office within the Kenya Community Media Network (KCOMNET) headquarters in Nairobi, we now have a solid homebase for our future work in Kenya.
Our reach
24 million potential listeners
By combining radio coverage maps with population density information, we estimate that our partner stations in Kenya have a combined potential audience of more than 24 million people.
Stories
Partners
Feature projects
Feature publications
Country snapshot
146th on the Human Development Index
49, 699, 862 total population
73.5% rural population
38% employment in agriculture
39% rural access to electricity
74% women’s literacy rate
Source: UNDP, World Bank
Staple crops
Maize, wheat, barley, beans, rice, sorghum, millet, beans, potatoes, bananas
Our work in Kenya
14 Broadcasting partners
1999 First broadcasting partner joined
2018 Country office opened
2014 First radio project
Contact
Shalom House off Ngong Road, St. Daniel, Comboni Road.
PO Box 2641 - 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel/Fax: +254.721.157.181
Project broadcast languages
Somali, Luo