by Evelyn Samba | Jul 10, 2020 | Covid-19, Female Empowerment, Kenya, Youth Empowerment
“Africa’s population is the fastest-growing in the world. Yet sexual and reproductive health and rights are being neglected amid the pandemic with dire consequences,” says Evelyn Samba for World Population Day (July 11, 2020). Africa, along with the...
by Evelyn Samba | Dec 12, 2019 | Empower, Enhance, Kenya, Youth, Youth Empowerment
DSW Kenya’s engagements with ICPD25: Accelerating the Promise This year marked the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). To commemorate this, the governments of Kenya and Denmark and the United Nations Population Fund...
by Evelyn Samba | Jan 3, 2019 | Foster, Kenya
Two years after the reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy – better known as the Global Gag Rule – what impact is it having on the lives of those people most reliant on external funding to access family planning services. Our Kenya Country Director Evelyn...
by Evelyn Samba | May 25, 2018 | Advance, Kenya
Right after assuming the office in January 2017, the Trump administration reinstated the so-called Global Gag Rule. Also known as Mexico City Policy, it blocks US funding for international NGOs which offer information or services regarding abortion, or who simply...
by Evelyn Samba | Oct 24, 2017 | Advance, Kenya
Since the year 2000, DSW has been working with Kenyans enabling them to work towards a healthy future for all. We have done this by supporting a conversation about sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and what this means for Kenya’s efforts of improving...