Reports

Kenya experiences both geological and weather related disasters but flooding, severe droughts and landslides have become common occurrences in recent years. The impact and severity of these disasters have been caused or multiplied by climate change.…

On 19 October 2021, in Nairobi, UNESCO in partnership with the Ministry of Education of Kenya alongside 317 participants came together to launch the first-ever Kenya national study report on Out-of-School Children (OOSC). The launch drew…

UNESCO has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kenya's National Council of Population and Development (NCPD), Plan International and UN Women to implement a media campaign on ending teenage pregnancy and gender- based violence (GBV)…

Linda was born and raised in Nairobi’s Kibera informal settlement, one of the largest and most densely populated areas in Kenya.* “Life is so challenging here,” she says. Like many youth in her surrounding, this young woman…

In Romans Manyiel Garang’s classroom, there are 180 students, some as old as 35 — ten years older than Garang himself. Garang is a primary school teacher in Kenya’s Kukuma Refugee camp, responsible for providing refugee…

“A braille dictionary has 26 volumes and each one is quite heavy for most students to carry comfortably. A tablet can hold hundreds of books,” said Irene Mbari-Kirika, founder and Executive Director of InABLE, summing up…

In celebrating the International Day for Disaster Reduction on 13 October 2013, UNESCO has been carrying out a pilot project in Kenya that aims to advocate, inform and prepare communities in undertaking Disaster Risk Reduction measures…

An exploration of groundwater resources has identified reserves of water in Turkana County in drought-stricken northern Kenya. The findings were announced at the opening of an international water security conference in Nairobi today, and are the…

Thirty journalists from North-Eastern and Eastern Kenya are being trained on elections reporting in a two-day workshop, which is taking place on 25 and 28 January 2013 in Machakos County, Kenya. The training, being done in…

UNESCO’s global partnership for girls’ and women’s education addresses two main areas requiring increased attention – secondary education and literacy. It seeks to introduce progammes aimed at stemming the dropout of adolescent girls in the transition…