by Collins Baswony | Feb 10, 2021 | Enhance, Kenya, Youth Empowerment
The recent executive action of repealing of the Mexico City policy by US President Joe Biden is welcome news for reproductive healthcare in Kenya. The Mexico City policy, commonly referred to as the global gag rule, bans U.S. government’s assistance...
by Philomena Marijani | Sep 3, 2020 | Advance, Enhance, Tanzania
DSW Tanzania through its youth development training centre and capacity development projects conducts capacity strengthening interventions for CSOs. One of the projects dubbed SLALE recently organized a midterm review workshop for partners supported by DSW through...
by Esayas Meskel | Feb 20, 2020 | Advance, Enhance, Ethiopia, Youth, Youth Empowerment
In Ethiopia, the word ‘advocacy’ was taboo for many years. It was sugarcoated in alternative terminologies in an attempt to dodge the wrath of the Ethiopian government, which imposed a penal code against civil society organizations (CSOs) and NGOs in 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 Philomena Marijani | Dec 8, 2019 | Empower, Enhance, Tanzania, Youth
United Nations reports indicate that progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is slow, with developing countries facing an average annual funding gap of about 2.5 trillion USD. Volunteers make up a critical human capacity resource that help close...
by Shane O'Halloran | Nov 11, 2019 | Advance, Brussels, Empower, Enhance, Female Empowerment, Foster, Global Health, Youth, Youth Empowerment
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: For those of you at the Nairobi Summit over the coming days, I hope you will join us at our concurrent session: Showcasing and Celebrating African Achievements: Cairo to Addis Ababa to Nairobi and Beyond Date: Wednesday, Nov. 13 Time: 3-4:30 pm...