A window to the cut-flower industry in Kenya By Lily Githiiyi
The cut-flower industry employs many thousands of workers globally. This sector which began in the Northern Hemisphere, expanded rapidly at the end of the 20th century in the South until by the year 2000, one third of the traded cut flowers was grown in the South (mainly East and Southern Africa, Colombia and Ecuador) Download PDF Version. Campaign against corruption in Kenya: A Convenient Smokescreen? By Onyango Oloo
Onyango Oloo, a Kenyan political activist and ex political prisoner, argues that there is a deepening crisis of legitimacy for the Kenyan government. The implication of key government officials in grand corruption has struck yet another nail in the coffin of the shattered and battered National Rainbow Coalition. Oloo sees corruption as driven by two factors; internally by a lack of democratic institutions, structures and culture and externally as one of the by- products of the disastrous neo-liberal policies imposed by the West and its institutions.Download PDF Version. Campaign against unsustainable agricultural activities in Yala swamp in the Lake Victoria region-Kenya By KOEE Team
Over the past few months SusWatch Kenya, Friends of Yala Swamp/Friends of the Earth consortium, Action Aid together with other CSO's Kenya have been advocating for the stoppage of unsustainable development activities of DOMINION; An American company that is currently reclaiming a wetland (Yala Swamp-located in the lake Victoria region of Kenya) for commercial purposes.Download PDF Version. Scaling up SusWatch in East Africa: Focus on Lake Victoria By KOEE Team
KOEE, UCSD and TCSD are national networks that are part of the Sustainability Watch (SusWatch); a network of civil society organizations in 15 countries in the global South (Africa, Asia and Latin America), working to promote governments’ accountability on sustainable development through ongoing qualitative monitoring and constructive dialogue at the national and International levels. Download PDF Version.
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