By ALiVE team, Values and Life Skills Thematic Group The Assessment of Life Skills and Values in East Africa (ALiVE) team recently released its Do our children in Kenya have Life Skills and Values? report which shares findings about Kenyan…
By Purity Ngina Currently, Kenyans are debating the value of the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC). Some support it while others are pointing out the gaps that exist. However, missing from this debate, is a consideration of the core-competences – the…
By the Values and Lifeskills Thematic group, RELI Kenya According to the 2020 Kenya census report, 38.9 per cent of young Kenyans are jobless. These findings confirm data from a 2020 World Bank report that positions the 7.3 youth unemployment…
International Women’s Day 2022 By John Mugo “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any”. (Alice Walker) Today is the international women’s day. Join me to celebrate two young Tanzanian women, and…
By John Mugo Despite COVID-19, the year 2021 has brought many blessings our way. Nearly two million children have completed primary and secondary school, after going through a really trying period of closing and opening. Many of them have passed…
By Sister Grace Mkosamali Sister Grace Mkosamali, an advocate for inclusive and equitable education, presented a paper on education in East Africa during an annual gathering of researchers, students and stakeholders in education and policy. The Comparative and International Education…
By Building Tomorrow When the covid-19 pandemic hit the world in early 2020, governments globally ordered lockdowns, which stalled many socio-economic activities. In Uganda, schools were closed in March 2020 and due to technological challenges, the Building Tomorrow staff were…
By Andiwo Obondoh and Margaret Wawira East Africa’s three waves of covid-19 in 2020/2021 have resulted in a lot of stress and immense strain on child rights civil society organisations and their programmes. The pandemic impacted all aspects of these…
By Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG) RELI members- Civil Society Budget Advisory Group, STiR Education, and The Uganda Society for Disabled Children, urged the government to increase spending for schools inspection and monitoring at an exciting session in parliament…