Deepening Impact Our Shared Vision Values

Annual Report 2014 Deepening Impact Our Shared Vision Values

A world without poverty and injustice in • Mutual Respect which every person enjoys their right to a • Humility life with dignity. • Equity and Justice • Solidarity with the poor, powerless and Our excluded • Courage of Conviction Mission • Honesty and Transparency

To work with poor and excluded people to • Integrity eradicate poverty by overcoming injustice • Fairness and inequity that causes it. • Accountability

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Abbreviations 04 Foreword 06

Introduction 07 External Context 08 Internal Context 09

Programme Priorities 11 Securing basic rights for women and girls 12 Access and Control over Land and Natural Resources 14 Accountability at all levels 21 Disaster management and resilience building 24

Organizational Processes and Changes 26 Deepening Impact Improved leadership and governance of the organization for enhanced 27 accountability Diversify and grow our funding 28 Financial management systems to ensure timely management decision 29 making and increased accountability to all stakeholders Effective program quality management to deepen impact 30 effective organization structure and work force to deliver the strategy 31

Financial Statements 32 Audited Financial Statement 33

Governance Structure 38 Abbreviations

AAI ActionAid International AAK ActionAid Kenya ACORD Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development ASALs Arid and Semi-Arid Areas ASALs Arid and Semi-Arid Lands CDF Constituency Development Fund CLNSA Coast Land Non-State Actors CSG County Steering Group CSO Civil Society Organisation DANIDA Danish International Development Agency DFID Department for International Development DSG District Steering Committee EMCA Environmental Management and Coordination Act FFS Farmer’s Field School FGG Fair Green and Global FGM Female Genital Mutilation HAP Humanitarian Accountability Practices IWD International Women’s Day KDRP Kenya Drought and Resilience Programme KFSSG Kenya Food Security Steering Group KLA Kenya Land Alliance KNHRC Kenya National Human Rights Commission LRP Local Rights Programme MCA Member of County Assembly MRF Malindi Rights Forum MWRO Mwangaza Women Rights Organisation NACC National AIDS Control Council (NACC) NDMA National Drought Management Authority

Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya NDMA National Drought Management Authority NLC National Land Commission 4 PA Provincial Administration PBO Public Benefits Organization PFA Public Financing for Agriculture VAW/G Violence against Women/Girls WFP World Food Programme Deepening Impact

5 Charles Ngila Charles Photo: Foreword

Elizabeth Wakilo Righa Bijay Kumar Board Chair Executive Director ActionAid Kenya ActionAid Kenya

It is a great pleasure to share with you ActionAid also facilitated the upgrading of the Information Tech- Kenya’s (AAK) programme achievements through nology infrastructure and rolling out the web-based this Annual Report 2014. This report will help you monitoring and evaluation system. Additionally, in- learn how AAK is facilitating processes, working with ternal audits were conducted and monthly manage- women living in poverty and exclusion and other ment accounts generated. With regard to fundrais- marginalized groups to eradicate poverty. ing, AAK achieved 98% supporter retention, ensuring constant income for the country programme. AAK The external environment continued to be very also achieved strong international relations with its dynamic and volatile. This was highly driven by high partners both within the AAI federation as well as poverty prevalence, inequality, low accountability, low outside. investment and inadequate farm productivity. Patri- archal system of governance and other cultural prac- These achievements were not devoid of challenges. tices continued to foster rights violations to women Notable challenges included inadequate targeting and girls. Government expenditure for development to reach people living in poverty and exclusion, lack remained low at only 22% of the national budget of adoption of integrated community-led planning undermining provision of basic services to commu- processes, weak youth engagement to influence nities. Fragile security affected AAIK operations in political and accountability processes, inadequate several counties. technical support to LRPs to steer local priority work, grounding our campaigns work with local contexts, Internally, 2014 was a year of happening for AAIK. weak evidence generation through research, shrink- It was mid-year in the implementation of our current ing AAK visibility in policy influencing spaces, weak Country Strategy Paper (CSP) ‘Making Our Rights synergy across mission priorities and weak staff and Count 2012-2017’. Thus a CSP review was done partners’ capacity and conceptualization of Human to reflect into our past achievements and focus on Rights Based Approach, women’s rights and moni- deepening our impact for the remaining period of the toring and evaluation. strategy. The main output was a Revised Country Strategy Paper 2015- 2017. We are grateful to our child sponsorship supporters Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya and institutional donors who helped us in raising 6 The revised CSP contained the emerging issues and funds and implementing our program activities. learnings from the review, changing external and Many thanks to the communities we work with and internal contexts and how these are impacting AAIK especially women and girls for enabling us make a work, what we are going to do differently given the positive change in the war of eradicating poverty. For context packaged as game changers and new ways AAK team, especially the front line staff and partners, of working and revised key priorities both to mission we celebrate the achievements of 2014 while also and organizational development objectives. looking in future into delivering the promises under the revised strategy. Last we celebrate our General Notable achievements were strong empowerment Assembly and National Board for oversight offered of communities around strategic objectives, strong throughout the year. focus on impact in our work with women, implementation of relevant and responsive programs and strong engagement with County governments. From the organizational development perspective, AAK developed and operationalized an Organizational Elizabeth Wakilo Righa Bijay Kumar Development Strategy, ensuring various policies and Board Chair Executive Director procedures are in place for increased efficiency. It ActionAid Kenya ActionAid Kenya 01 Introduction Titus Parklea Titus Photo: Introduction

External Context Devolution of power and accountability to the 47 counties promises to transform Kenya through in- clusive growth and equity in public service delivery. Kenya is a largely patriarchal society, which has County governments and opposition continued to contributed to women’s subjugation in both the pri- pressure for more allocation of funds to devolved vate and public spheres. Violence against Women structures. Elected leaders especially Members of and Girls (VAW/G) is high in Kenya despite Affirma- County Assemblies (MCAs) also agitated for higher tive Action provisions in Articles 175c), 177b) and pay. As result, government continued to operate 197 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 that prohibits with a high recurrent expenditure with very little discrimination and negative practices. Violence funds left for development. continues to manifest in the form of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), early and forced marriages, in- On 30th Sep 2014, Kenya was classified as a mid- cest, rape, battery, widow inheritance and exclusion dle-income country after a statistical reassessment from electoral and political processes. According by The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. Kenya to the 2014 Kenya Demographic Health Survey effectively became Africa’s ninth largest economy (KDHS), women are more likely to experience phys- with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $55.2 ical violence. billion. The 2013 economy’s growth rate was also revised to 5.7% with a similar projection for 2014. Gender equity index remains low at 0.6081 as Poverty levels in the country remained at 45.9% evidenced by the low share of parliamentary seats while the life expectancy was pegged at 61 years1. held by women. The representation of women in Rebasing the national account implies that there is the National Assembly is only 19% while the Senate a decline in opportunities for funding in the North has 27% of women. This is below the Constitu- due to de-prioritization of Kenya thus leading to a tional threshold of two-thirds principle of gender decline in traditional support for CSOs work2. representation (Articles 27 and 81).

Figure 1: County government expenditure analysis 2013/14 Government Expenditure Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya Debt payment & 8 2% pending bills

Development expenditure Personal 22% emolments 46%

Operation & 30% Maintainance

Source: Controller of budgets report 2013/14 In 2014, Kenya experienced an emerging fragile Internal Context security context3 with Militia groups in major towns presenting a serious security problem. The Govern- The year 2014 was the mid-way point of implement has been forced to step up security as well as menting the current Country Strategy Paper Making tackle high youth unemployment. Our Rights Count. The mid-term review for the CSP was conducted through a participatory process Land in Kenya is a critical resource impacting involving communities, staff and other stakehold- people and livelihoods and holding great econom- ers. During the review, emphasis was laid on what ic, cultural, environmental and political importance. worked well and the areas that the organization The quest for gender equality has not been alien to needed to sharpen its focus on to deepen impact. rights to land use and ownership4. Land reforms The review also focussed on the mission & organi- have however provided a beacon of hope for a zational development priorities of the CSP. more equitable and favourable situation for women to own, manage, access and transfer or otherwise From the CSP review, some assertions were made. transact in land and immovable property5. One overriding caveat was that the CSP is not a new strategy but a revised version under the ban- Kenya has great potential from its growing and ner Making Our Rights Count – Revised strate- youthful population, a dynamic private sector, a gy 2015 – 2017. Other assertions made included; new constitution, and its pivotal role in East Africa the centrality of women living in poverty and exclu- to be one of Africa’s success stories. However, the sion, deepening of accountability systems within country is facing challenges of poverty, inequality, the organization as well as with the communities governance, low investment and low farm produc- we work with, mainstreaming of resilience and con- tivity to achieve rapid, sustained growth rates that flict sensitivity approaches as we implement AAK’s will transform the lives of ordinary citizens6. Devo- activities, strengthening engagement with the youth lution is a challenge, but also an opportunity for as well as forging deeper partnerships with . A greater distribution of economic opportunities7. strong focus on empowering the communities we

work with as well as a strong performance oriented Deepening Impact organizational culture ranks key as an output of the review process. 9

1 Mohamed Wehliye, “Principal Benefits of rebasing Economy”, in the East African Standard, 2nd October 2014, p. 11; see also Nic Chee seman, “Recalculating Kenya’s GDP: Kenyans may pay for the appearance of wealth”, in Democracy in Africa, (http://democracyinafrica.org/ recalculating-kenyas-gdp-kenyans-may-pay-appearance-wealth/#, downloaded on 10th April 2014) 2 AAK, Deepening Making Our Rights Count, p. 9 3 European Interagency Security Forum, The Future of Humanitarian Security in Fragile Contexts: An Analysis of Transformational Factors Affecting Humanitarian Action in the Coming Decade, (European Interagency Security Forum, 2014), p. 8 4 Joanne Monene, “Toward the Realization of Land Rights for Women in Kenya” (http://ke.boell.org/sites/default/files/uploads/2014/02/to ward_the_realisation_of_land_rights_for_women_in_kenya.pdf, downloaded 10th April 2014) 5 Ibid. 6 Kosta Kioleoglou, “Kenya: Dependence on Real Estate May Disappoint”, in the African Executive, 04th – 11th February 2015 7 Ibid. The review process also pointed to the need to The Board approved the revised strategy in Sep- make certain shifts, adopt new ways of working that tember 2014 followed by a light restructuring seek to strengthen AAK’s interventions/initiatives which re-established three clusters and the policy so as to achieve greater impact. These suggested unit. The re-introduction of the clusters strives to shifts are referred to as the game changers and enhance support to LRPs in terms of supervision, news ways of working. Game changers refer the administration as well as technical advice. The changes envisioned in AAK’s work in its strategic policy and research unit was re-established as a objective of achieving greater impact while AAK’s deliberate step to assist AAK reclaim its visibility in new ways of working are process-oriented chang- the policy influencing spaces. es related to its approaches and methodologies aimed at facilitating change in communities. Charles Ngila Charles Photo: Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya

10 02 Programme updates Photo: ActionAid Kenya Photo: Programme Priorities

Securing basic rights for women and girls

Strategic objective: Ensure Women and Girls living in poverty and exclusion gain power to secure their rights.

Across 16 counties, ActionAid supported communi- Kishushe LRP’s. ActionAid also facilitated capacity ty education, mobilisation and response to Violence building for 265 teachers and community leaders against Women and Girls (VAW/G) both in public on recognizing, reporting and management of and private spaces reaching approximately 20,800 VAW/G cases. women and girls. Equally, AAK joined in on national initiatives aimed at creating a favourable legal envi- AAK offered support to communities and partic- ronment and legislation that enhances government ipated actively in development of the Prevention commitment to ending violence against women against Domestic Violence Bill 2013. The legislation and girls. AAK continued to work closely with five recognizes different forms of domestic violence women movements to undertake women empow- such as physical, sexual, psychological and eco- erment actions through trainings and community nomic violence and gives guidelines on handling forums. them. The Bill also seeks to protect survivors of domestic violence and provide protection for spouses and children or dependents within the family unit. Women and girls are safe from violence ActionAid also proposed establishment of a board in both private and public spaces to design, supervise and co-ordinate public awareness programmes on protection against domestic Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya In all LRPs and areas where we have presence violence as well as to advise the Government on through partners, ActionAid supported awareness matters relating to protection against domestic 12 raising of communities to recognize and challenge violence and the implementation of the Bill. violence against women and girls. More support by men and boys in curbing VAW/G led to more Women occupy leadership positions women reporting cases of violence against women and influence decision making at all and girls. The development of Standard Operat- levels ing Procedures by the government as well as the capacity enhancement of service providers led to Though Kenya recorded the highest number of uniformity in management and handling of VAW/G women in leadership following the 2013 elections in cases with 192 reported cases utilising the proce- its history, there is still a long way to go to achieve dures. Some of the cases reported included rape, gender equity in elective and nominated public wife battery, child negligence, early marriage and bodies and decision making organs through the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). A total of 201 two third principle.The principle stipulates that no cases were reported to local leaders and police in more than two thirds of the members of any public Marafa, Elangata Wuas, Kongelai, Tangulbei and elective and nominative body will be of the same gender. Case Study 20,800 Women and Girls supported

Girls’ forums 200 supported

Photo: Kuria LRP Photo: Women Movements Life after child pregnancy 5 Supported

Winnie Nyamataga a 16 year old and a pupil in Ko- kamange- Kuria she will sit for her Kenya Certificate of Counties Primary Education at the end of the year 2014. Winnie Worked in 16 is a little different from all the pupils preparing to sit for their KCPE- she is a testimony that there can be life after child pregnancy. “My parents were not able to Following a proposal in parliament to scrap off the pay fees for both of us while two other children were in primary and secondary school. A man tricked me two thirds gender affirmative action in the Consti- and I got married to him and school came to a halt tution - 2010, AAK supported a women and devo- for me. I was married for three years and got three lution conference aimed at setting the stage for miscarriages during that time. I wanted to go back to communicating the women’s/gender agenda to the school but I knew that anyone who was married could women in the senate, national assembly and the not go to school. My dreams were gone with the wind county assemblies. The conference sought to bring I thought” Winnie says. “I heard about the return to school campaign being run by Actionaid when I came on board the targeted women leaders as agents to visit my mother and saw that as an opportunity to fulfil of change who can serve as catalysts for progress my long harboured desire to continue with my studies” and development in each county. The proposal to adds Winnie. scrap off the affirmative action is still in parliament awaiting tabling for debate.

During the year, AAK supported about 200 girl’s forums across 16 counties reaching 4600 girls. The girls’ forums are intended to provide a safe space Deepening Impact for girls in schools to meet and share issues of con- 13 cern in an environment that is supportive and safe.

Challenges and Lessons Learnt

Despite the Constitution providing a raft of rights to protect women and girls, they still continue to be among the poorest and most at risk in Kenya. Photo: Kuria LRP Photo: Despite the efforts AAK has continue to make in ensuring women and girls gets empowered, pa- Winnie is back to school now and registered for this triarchy remains deeply entrenched in cultures of year’s KCPE exam. She will be sitting for the exams with many communities’ and these must be confronted. her younger brother who is also in class 8. She joined Another challenge has been the poor operation- the Girl’s forum in her school and actively participates in alisation and enforcement of the Constitution and their discussions and activities. She has had a second chance to education which is her right and has been. other attendant laws in Kenya that outlaw gender discrimination. Programme Priorities

Access and Control over Land and Natural Resources

Strategic objective: To work with communities living in poverty and exclusion to facilitate their access and control of land and productive resources for improved livelihood security

Land in Kenya is a critical resource impacting Kwale, Taita Taveta, Kilifi, Tana River and Lamu. This peoples’ livelihoods and holding great economic, forum enlightened the MCAs on their role on land cultural, environmental and political importance. reforms in their respective counties. In response to The land reform agenda in Kenya was sparked this action, Mombasa and Kwale County Govern- off by the National Land Policy 2009 and further ment initiated a process of developing a localised anchored in Kenya’s Constitution. Nevertheless land policy and allocated resources towards land the current struggle on land and natural resources adjudication and titling. relate to enactment of laws to govern community land, address historical injustice, forestall land As a response for the need to fast track land grabs including reverting land that has already reforms at national level, ActionAid launched the been grabbed back to the community and ensure Land for Communities and with Women cam- fair share of benefits to communities affected by paign. The seven day process was marked with mining and other extractive sector industries. a number of actions that heightened the need for land reforms in the country prompting Ministry of While working to entrench women interest and Lands to move fast to begin land registry cleaning control over land, these areas of land and natural exercise. The launch of Land for Communities and resources struggle formed the bulk of our pro- with Women Campaign also triggered other CSO Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya gramme focus in 2014. During this period, AAK actions that heightened the need for land reforms. 14 interventions focused on building the capacities of The launch of the campaign attracted 458 women. communities and supporting them to secure their land rights. Promoting women land rights and claims: With support from Oxfam Ireland, ActionAid consol- Increased access and control over land idated the formation of six Women Land Rights and other natural and productive re- Chapters. Additional capacity development for sources the leadership of this women land rights chapters was done that sought to take the leaders through Key milestones under these result area included: existing land laws and policies and due process to be followed in advancing women land rights. Mobilization of County Executives and Assem- This culminated in a Rural Women Assembly in blies for Greater Support to Land Reform Agenda: coast region bringing over 200 women together to ActionAid supported a two day awareness creation advance women land rights. AAK further supported process for 30 Members of County Assemblies the efforts of 200 women to secure both individual drawn from the Coastal Counties of Mombasa, and joint land titles. Photo: CSL Project Photo:

Outreaches targeting women were also held in porting alternative dispute resolution mechanism. Kanagoni and Kubuka villages of Kilifi County on This action has led to cessation of administrators’ women land rights and the importance of women involvement in negotiating land transactions/ and representation in the land boards and communal curbing malpractices that compromise land rights land committees. Similar outreaches were conduct- of local communities.

ed in Mombasa and Siaya Counties. The Women Deepening Impact Land Chapters supported a number of women Support of Community Petitions to Courts and who were at the verge of being dispossessed of Other National Bodies: ActionAid supported com- 15 their land. In the coming year, the Women Land munity members of Yala Swamp who successfully Chapters will serve as a spring board for amplifying made an application to the appeal chambers after women land rights claims and act as a build up to being dissatisfied with the ruling from the High the forthcoming Kilimanjaro summit. Court of Kenya which had dismissed their application on a technicality against a multinational called Increased clarity on the role of Provincial Admin- Dominion Farm. The case touched on the com- istration: Bamburi LRP supported three trainings for munity being disenfranchised by Dominion Farm provincial administration and community represen- after the multinational flooded their communal land. tatives on their roles in land administration as pro- The ruling on this case indicated that there was a vided for in the Land Laws. The Provincial Adminis- violation of Article 159 (2) (d) of the Constitution of tration (PA) has in the past played a big role in land Kenya which states that “justice shall be adminis- transactions that dispossessed communities of tered without undue regard to procedural technical- their land. Under the existing land laws, the role of ities”. A similar petition by Marereni Communities the Provincial Administration in implementation of was made through the area Member of Parliament Land Laws is limited to security provision and sup- to the President. A Presidential directive was issued Photo: Bamburi LRP Photo:

for respective government departments to con- mission to withdraw their earlier letter that falsely duct investigations and report to the President on recognized the claims of the mining company. the extent of encroachment of community land by salt mines. The report produced was contested by Strengthened Policy and Legislation Processes: Marereni community and The Malindi Rights Forum AAK, Coast Land Non-State Actor (CLNSA) and which stalled the flawed recommended actions. Institute for Law and Environmental Governance (ILEG) contributed to policy and legislation pro- Successful Support to Resistance to Evictions: cesses in a number of ways. AAK in partnership ActionAid linked Kamnarok Community of Barin- with ILEG engaged the Constitutional Implementa- Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya go County with The National Land Commission. tion Commission on reviewing the Community Land The commission drafted a letter and directed the Bill as well as conducted consultations with local 16 County Government of Baringo to stop any forceful communities on issues of benefit sharing from nat- eviction from Kamnarok to pave way for wildlife ural resources in Kwale, Kilifi and Siaya Counties. conservation. At the time when ActionAid inter- The engagements with communities in Kilifi helped vened, heavy machinery had been mobilized to the to stop imminent encroachment by a multinational site to pull down houses including public utilities investor into the iconic Arabuko-Sokoke Forest. such as schools. AAK further mobilized communities from Takaungu, Marereni, Mwakirunge, Yala Swamp and Kwale to In Taita Taveta, ActionAid supported peaceful com- attend meetings organized by Historical Injustices munity protests and sit-ins that led to the County Task Force and present their views. Governor to visit Kishushe and gave support to the community’s claims. This action led to petitioning A Task Force to Address the Yala Swamp Com- of The National Land Commission that had earlier munity Issues Established: Communities residing written a letter in recognition of land claims by Wan- in the Yala Swamp submitted a memorandum to jala Mining Company. The protests by the com- the County Assembly through a friendly MCA. As a munity residing in Kishushe compelled the com- result of this memorandum, the Governor formed a task force to look into the community concerns. The task force has so far held several village level meetings with affected community members. 200 Women Development of a binding code to guide investor supported to access conduct: AAK partnered with the Institute for Law land titles and Environmental Governance (ILEG) to develop two research papers as a basis for developing policy briefs focusing on community participation and benefit sharing from natural resources among 6,000 communities, Counties and The National Govern- Farmers supported ment. These policy briefs were used to influence the Benefit Sharing Bill and are further designed to facilitate discussions and engagements with policy Members of County makers in the course of advocating for the adoption 140 Assemblies trained of the investment principles in 2015.

Development of an Advocacy strategy for Kwale activism work. The trainings focussed on mapping Natural Resource Network: AAK alongside ILEG of security incidents and drawing lessons, drawing facilitated training for Kwale County Natural Re- security strategies and plans, drawing prevention source Network as well as supporting the network plans & emergence plans and outlining implemen- to develop its current five year Strategic Plan and tation roadmap with roles and responsibilities. AAK its accompanying Advocacy Strategy. is following up to ensure that the HRDs and their institutions have developed risk management plans Strengthening networks and coalitions: AAK is and are implementing them. AAK also intends to a member of Coast Land Non-State actors and at bolster this step by institutionalizing support mech- national level is a member of the National CSOs anisms for Human Rights Defenders. working Group on community land. AAK further partnered with eight (8) NGOs in an ef- Strengthened Mechanisms for Support to Hu- fort to build solidarity movements with the commu- man Rights Defenders: Human Rights Defenders nities ahead of a court case where seven individu- (HRDs) are faced with myriad of risks ranging als were charged with alleged malicious damage to from intimidation through arrests, confinement & property. AAK together with the eight partners facili- imprisonment, branding as associates of outlawed tated community members to attend the court case groupings and are often subjects of judicial harass- which was a clear demonstration that the case was

ment. As a long-term approach to minimize risks for a matter of public interest. The eight NGO’s that Deepening Impact HRDs, AAK conducted a three day training for 30 AAK partnered with included; The National Coa- HRDs drawn from CSOs, community groups and lition on Human Rights Defenders-Kenya, Kenya 17 women facilitators of land rights on risk assess- National Commission on Human Rights, Protection ment and management. The training, facilitated by International and American Jewish World Services. Protection International, equipped the HRDs with Others were Peace Brigades International, Shield knowledge on assessing risks as they conduct their for Justice, Freedom House and Coast GRT- Kilifi.

Figure 3: % Budget allocation trends for agricultural sector during 2013/14 & 2014/15 financial years County agriculture budgets: 2013/2014 & 2014/ 2015

County Baseline 2013/2014 2014/2015 Baringo 3% 3%*** Migori 4% 7% Kakamega 3% 8% West Pokot 2% 6% Improved Income and Livelihood Through these initiatives, women are now consult- Diversity ed in agriculture county processes, sit in critical agriculture sector committees and in some instances Partial devolution of agriculture has brought the sub granted by county governments and account control of the sector in close proximity to women back to government. Progressively, farmer groups smallholder farmers to influence budget allocation are now being given tenders by government to sup- in the sector as well as improve efficiency of land ply certain farm inputs, a case in point being the tis- use. Owing to competing priorities in the Counties, sue culture banana that farmers in Khwisero supply majority of the Counties have been unable to put to other farmers through government tenders. more than 7% of their budget to the Agriculture sector. This has had a ripple effect to the declining Transformation in county processes through Ru- aggregate allocation to the sector nationally. The ral Women Assemblies: ActionAid has supported programme focus under this outcome area placed emergence and strengthening of Women Assem- more emphasis on three aspect blies across the three counties of Kitui, Kilifi,

i) Improving livelihoods through diversification of livelihoods. ii) Strengthening farmer associations and Women united can do all things movements Kitui County Influencing the pattern of resource allocation in agriculture sector towards women small- The Women Association of Kitui County (WAKC) is a holder farmers. federation of eight women savings and credit cooperatives. It currently has a membership of over 2,000 women most of them smallholder farmers. The association initiated by AAK in Increased budget allocation by the ministry of 2013, has continued to advocate enhanced budgetary allo- agriculture in four counties: During the period cation the agriculture sector as well as advocating for women of 2013 - 2014, ActionAiid engaged in processes rights in Kitui County aimed at influencing budget allocation and prioritization of women smallholder farmer concerns in The association, whose motto is “Women united can do all the four Counties of Kakamega, Migori, Baringo things”, exist to advance the women agenda in the County. Many women have joined the association in the County in and West Pokot respectively. The downstream order to participate in governance by ensuring that their opin- actions included mobilizing and strengthening four ions and perspectives are considered when decisions con- farmers’ networks and groups and building their cerning them are made by those in position of leadership. capacity in policy advocacy. The association rides on the numerical strength of women as explained by Florence Muia, one of the members. “In Kitui The upstream actions included awareness creation County, women are the majority and they are the most voters, unfortunately, they are under-represented in decision making Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya of 140 Members of County Assembly and Executive and have low access to public resources and opportunities drawn from the four counties on policy framework in this County.” 18 guiding agriculture, the need for increased investment in the sector as well as supporting key policy The association participated in 2014 year’s Kitui County bud- influence meetings with farmers from the partici- get hearing forums. The women made the necessary prepa- pating counties. These actions led to increase in rations by conducting an analysis of the proposed county budget to establish whether their priorities and perspectives budgets allocations by the counties for the current had been taken onboard and adequately resourced. They financial year: pressurized the county to increase allocations to this ministry besides other demands. This action borrows significant- Strengthening of Farmer Platforms and Institu- ly from the position paper the women had earlier presented tionalization of Spaces for Engagement: AAK during the first Kitui County Rural Women Assembly in 2013. strengthened women farmers’ networks and estab- Among the top priorities are development projects in health and sanitation, water and agriculture, education and entre- lished special consultative structures (platforms) to preneurship. After these consultations, Jecinta, one of the support dialogues on policy, agriculture budgetary members of the WAKC had this to say, “I thought it is very allocation and accountability in In Kuria, Khwisero, difficult to influence the county government, I am very happy Baringo and West Pokot. to see that the governor can listen to women. The journey has just started and we will go far.’’ Baringo and Kajioado. In Kilifi County, the Women cooperatives led in accountability processes in Assembly continued to engage county leadership the agriculture sector through budget tracking and on ensuring women have access & control to land informing policy formulation. while Baringo and Kajiado Women Assemblies were key in influencing progressive policies for In order to improve farmer engagements with policy eradication of FGM. makers, ActionAid trained farmers from the seven LRPs on policy advocacy, budget tracking and Supporting livelihood diversification and devel- influencing and leadership which led to increased opment of alternatives: ActionAid worked with confidence levels in engaging duty bearers. approximately 6000 farmers to improve their agricultural production and income. In Isiolo, Makima Geo-Mapping Basic Services in Communities: and Mwingi ActionAid promoted various technolo- AAK worked with Youth in Isiolo, Mwingi and gies and diversification approaches including the Makima to develop an online platform that allows construction of an irrigation scheme in Isiolo that to access basic services in select locations of the is providing water to over 200 farmers, fish farming counties through google maps. This technological ventures as well as small scale rabbit rearing. Other platform is a major progress in moving advocacy interventions supported included water and soil engagement online. This innovative platform can be conservation and poultry rearing among others live- accessed through the following URL: www.vija- lihood diversification interventions. Through these na-action-mapping.net. efforts, over 1,997 farmers and 1483 field School members benefitted from this work with a majority Improved incomes and resilience: The mid-term of the beneficiaries being women. For purposes of review and PRRPs have indicated that men and strengthening this work, AAK partnered with Agri- women farmers have improved their resilience to culture Sector Development Support Programme to vagaries of weather. Further, farmers indicated that develop value chain linkages for commodities pro- their incomes had registered marked growth as a duced by women in Bamburi, Marafa and Elangata result of viable alternatives and better linkages with Wuas LRP. markets. In addition, statistic show that women feel they are contributing more significantly to deci- Strengthened Cooperative Movements: ActionAid sions at the household level and community level. provided institutional and operational support to Women also initiated and strengthened their table seven small-holder farmers’ cooperatives in three banking activities during the year under review. project sites. Beyond playing a key role in advoca- Most women linked their strong sense of empower- cy and auditing agriculture sector budgets, these ment to their economic status which was felt most cooperatives have negotiated better access by at the household level. They articulated how the farmers to inputs, markets and information. The various AAK projects made significant changes to

cooperatives have also become legitimate champi- their lives on their journey to empowerment. Deepening Impact ons of issues affecting small-holder farmers while engaging with decision makers on various issues. Strengthening partnerships for improved incomes 19 For instance, in Mwingi Sub-County, the resident and livelihoods: ActionAid continued support- small-holder cooperative managed to influence ing farmers to participate in innovation platforms the county government to allocate KES 1.5 million that aim at improving their incomes. In Mwingi towards the construction of a honey processing Sub-County, an innovation platform on green plant in Thaana. In Isiolo County, the cooperative grams brought together interested players such as society engaged with the Water Resource Manage- researchers, seed multipliers & stockists, farmers, ment Authority and managed to secure a permit for bulk buyers as well as government representatives the construction of Kakili Irrigation Scheme where to seek solutions to the problems that bedevil the ActionAid was unable to make head-way. In Isiolo crop which include affordability of quality seed, County, the cooperatives bodies led sustained pest & diseases, value addition and post-harvest land and advocacy rights work against forceful losses among others. In Mbeere, a countywide acquisition of land by the Kenya Defence Forces innovation platform addressed bottlenecks in the while cooperatives in Makima advocated for lasting fish farming industry such as fingerling shortage, solutions to land problems affecting the area. In quality and cost of feed and markets for the har- Kuria, Kongelai, Khwisero and Tangulbei LRPs, the vest. Through this process, women farmers were mobilized and supported to start a fish breeding hoods and incomes. The low investment was as a and production farms for fingerlings. result of declining budgetary allocation at national level, low burn rates in agriculture due to delayed Improved market access for women farmers and disbursement of budget to counties, competing inclusion in value chain support: AAK supported priorities and inadequate policy legislation among cooperative to secure better and stable markets Members of the County Assembly (MCAs). for their farmers. In Isiolo, AAK linked farmers with Finlays, enabling them produce high quality french Some of the lessons learnt around revitalizing the beans for the export market while in Kuria, AAK agriculture sector included proper programming promoted inclusion of vulnerable women in passion so as to ensure vulnerable and relief dependant fruit commodity value chain support. households/ communities are food. There also exist a window of opportunity to influence pro-wom- Challenges and Lessons en, pro-poor budget allocation in agriculture sector at the county level. However, actions supporting Despite all these successes, several challenges increased allocations at this level ought to be lever- were faced around land access, use and owner- aged by actions that keep track on overall national ship. The infighting between the Ministry of Land allocation to the sector. Even though agriculture and National Land Commission was detrimental is partially devolved, there is room for counties to to AAK’s engagement with the two bodies in an negotiate better policy reforms and it’s envisaged effort to find solutions to land problems in almost that the changes negotiated at this level are more all areas where AAK works. Threats to human rights likely to impact positively on women smallholder defenders at community level remained the most farmers’. significant and mission threatening challenge over the period prompting training of HRDs in Bamburi There is also need to improve intra county resource LRP while initiating partnerships with Protection In- flow to facilitate frontline staff in the Ministry of ternational to address the challenge. These strate- Agriculture to discharge their mandate effectively. gic actions require significant resources and there This lesson is informed by the fact that farmers in a was a growing reluctance of donors to fund explicit number of counties continued to experience delays land issues hence affecting the overall success of in service delivery due to delays in authorization for this intervention. Lack of political commitment on fund utilization. land reforms was also a major issue in the year under review cutting across all levels due to vested Cooperatives and commodity interest groups have interests in land transactions. Going forward, AAK also emerged at County level with women farmers will continue building the capacity of communities getting entrenched in relevant commodity value to engage in land reform processes at both the chain processes. This value chain driven model of

Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya national and county levels. increasing productivity and income was useful but nevertheless should be promoted in a balanced 20 Low investment in agriculture continued to adverse- manner to ensure food production and preservation ly affect communities’ ability to diversify their liveli- of biodiversity does not suffer.

Figure 1: Social Audit group in a budget analyis session in Taita Taveta County Programme Priorities

Accountability at All Levels

Strategic objective: Empower communities living in poverty and exclusion to hold state and its institutions accountable for fulfilment of their basic rights

ActionAid Kenya continued to provide the much Institutions, Policies and Legal needed civic education support reaching 3,680 Frameworks that Promote the women & men through various trainings. Approxi- Realization of Basic Rights to Food, mately 33,151 women and youth were mobilized to participate in various campaigns to monitor the de- Health, Education and Social livery of basic rights and analyse local and national Security policies. This was coupled with building community capacity to articulate and meaningfully engage There were significant milestones made in 2014 not only in influencing quality basic service deliv- with regard to enhancing women and youth partici- ery but also in demanding for their rights. Various pation in national and county governance in Kenya community based structures had their capacities for improved accountability and basic service strengthened through trainings to monitor delivery delivery. of basic services across six counties. These include 15 basic delivery committees and 13 social audit groups.

Deepening Impact

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Figure 1: Social Audit group in a budget analyis session in Taita Taveta County A total of 5,695 people (3,581 women, 2,114 men) The week-long conference had an attendance of participated in discussions and monitoring of basic over 7,000 head teachers from across the country. service delivery in Nairobi, Baringo, Busia, Taita Out of these, AAK trained 1,100 head teachers on Taveta, Mombasa and Siaya Counties through promoting rights in schools with an aim of having social audit work. A total of 56 devolved fund proj- increased engagement of stakeholders to claim ects were audited in these counties with the audit children’s rights to education at community and reports being presented in community workshops county level, increased child participation in school that brought together 3,000 people (2000 women, governance processes and promotion of safe and 1000 men). The participants in the workshops also non-violent environment for children. participated in the 2014/2015 budget review and analysis discussions that sought to share gaps in Increased Transparency and Ac- basic service provision with the respective County countability in Generation, Alloca- Government officials. tion and Use of Resources to Realize Another four basic service delivery committees Basic Rights in health, education and water were established culminating in advocacy forums that demanded Closely linked with basic service provision is the changes in budget allocations in the aforemen- need for progressive realisation of tax reforms to tioned counties. As a result, Baringo County ensure delivery of basic rights in counties which reduced the recurrent expenditure allocation from translates to increased demand for counties to 62% in 2013/14 budget to 43% in 2014/15 budget re-allocate revenue for these services for people as well as increasing the development allocation living in poverty and exclusion. to 57% in the 2014/15 from 38% in the 2013/2014 budget. Community awareness of tax justice remained critical in AAK’s work while providing linkages to Taita Taveta County re-adjusted its budget to in- basic rights in a bid to encourage communities to crease water projects from 16 to 64 hence reducing engage in county budget allocations discourse as distances that women and girls had to travel for well as join the campaign for progressive realisa- water while also increasing the number of residents tion of tax reforms for basic service delivery. The accessing this basic right. A similar increase was good governance festival which was held in the also seen in agriculture resulting in each of the 20 reporting year with the theme ‘tax power’ was a wards being allocated a tractor for farming. Going good platform for engaging with citizens on tax jus- forward, social audit groups will be monitoring and tice issues. A total of 21,497 (17,083 women, 4,414 gathering data for the community score cards for men) participated in campaigns, trainings, dialogue these service to ensure accountability and im- forums and debates on tax justice. The programme also developed Information Education and Infor-

Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya proved access. mation (IEC) materials on tax justice while working 22 The demand for basic service provision cannot be closely with Activista, women and youth move- conducted in isolation without building the capacity ments with the express aim of empowering them for both the supply and demand side to integrate to lobby the County and National governments to and mainstream human rights in policy formulation, enact and implement progressive tax reforms and budget making, planning and implementation. This policies. necessitated the establishment of a pilot project with the County Governments of Lamu, Nakuru and A critical component of the democratic and gover- Taita Taveta in partnership with the Kenya National nance work was the capacity building of LRP staff Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and the and AAK partners on the new system of devolved MS Training Centre for Development Corporation structures and governance. Through partnering (MS TCDC). with the Global platforms and MS-TCDC Arusha, the programme organized 48 trainings reaching AAK worked with The Kenya Primary School Head 789 people including staff, partners and communi- teachers Association (KEPSHA) to hold their ties from across the country on pro-poor budget- annual conference whose aim was to strengthen ing, policy making within the devolved structures and support the Children’s County Governments. and human rights based approach. Challenges and Lessons Learnt

The teething problems of the new devolved structures affected AAK’s engagement with county 33,151 officials. AAK however established a good work- Participated in basic ing relationship with Taita Taveta County officials rights campaigns including the Governor’s office which contributed greatly to advancing governance work especially in integration of human rights in the realisation of Devolved devolution. AAK engaged with the Kenya School fund projects of Government to adopt the ‘Human Rights Cur- 56 audited riculum for Realisation of Devolution’ after going through a lengthy validation process by The Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development (KICD).

In engaging with various government institutions 1,100 both at national and county level on public service Head teachers provision as well as from capacity assessment trained on child conducted with county governments, it was evident rights that counties continue to work, plan and budget without basing their activities on the progressive Bill of Rights as enshrined in the Constitution. poverty and exclusion to build their resilience in face of natural and man-made shocks and crisis in Security issues in Lamu and Mombasa Counties the reporting period. ActionAid strategically devel- was a constant risk in AAK’s governance work. Due oped its resilience work by working with communi- to runaway insecurity in Lamu, the National Govern- ties, particularly women, to build their disaster pre- ment imposed a dusk to dawn curfew which greatly paredness capacities as well as influence County impeded and slowed AAK activities in the region. governments, relevant institutions and systems for AAK continued to work with communities living in enhanced resilience.

Deepening Impact

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Disaster Management and Resilience Building

AAK continued to work with communities living in poverty and exclusion to build their resilience in the face of natural and man- made shocks and crisis in the reporting period. ActionAid strategically developed its resilience work by working with communities, particularly women, to build their disaster preparedness capacities as well as influence County governments, relevant institutions and systems for enhanced resilience.

Enhanced Preparedness to Disas- AAK facilitated the development of a sustainability ters and Conflicts assessments as well as development of guidelines for sustainable water and sanitation projects under In 2014, AAK together with five START Network the auspices of ‘Maji na Uhai’ framework in the year consortium members led the development of an under review. Through partnership with Safaricom in-country proposal for a project dubbed Shifting Foundation, ActionAid UK provided development the Power project. Shifting the Power is a three assistance to vulnerable rural communities mainly year project that aims to strengthen the role of in the Arid and Semi-arid Lands (ASAL). These local organizations in the humanitarian system to included water supply, water sanitation and hygiene become active leaders and decision makers in the interventions in order to mitigate disasters that sector. The project also seeks to improve local or- perennially affect communities in the mentioned areas as well as build their resilience. A sustainabil-

Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya ganizations’ capacities for humanitarian response, strengthen their role in networks and influence ity assessment was done providing a clear understanding of how the projects are faring as well as 24 international actors to promote the role of local and national organizations. The project will collate doc- their sustainability capabilities once the exit strategy umentation, case studies and learning to evidence is set in motion. the approach and promote its replicability. During the reporting period, the organization car- Under the year in review, AAK participated in the ried out The Core Humanitarian Standards testing UN Climate Change Conference held in Lima, Peru. in one LRP. The Core Humanitarian Standard on The recently released Inter-governmental Panel on Quality and Accountability is an initiative that has Climate Change Synthesis Report shows that hu- been developed with the intent of supporting human-induced climate change is already impacting manitarian and development actors to deliver qual- people and ecosystems through ocean acidifica- ity assistance, promote the well-being & dignity of tion, sea level rise, extreme heat events and pro- communities and people affected by crisis as well found changes in the Arctic. The report also shows as increase accountability to them. Through this that we can expect much worse if we do not take framework, independent and autonomous human- rapid, decisive action to break the world’s fossil fuel itarian standard-setting bodies apply a consistent addiction. terminology and approach to their standards while coordinating the use and support of the Core Hu- manitarian Standard, ensuring users of standards can better understand and implement standards for the benefit of those they seek to assist. 61,390 people supported In 2014, the Accountability in Emergencies Re- with relief food source Book was developed by five ActionAid countries, who came together to take leadership in this effort on behalf of the wider ActionAid federa- Farmer field tion. AAK took a lead role together with Denmark, and learning Haiti, Myanmar and Pakistan in developing the re- 23 schools source book aimed at providing critical information supported to staff on accountability in emergencies.

AAK phased out the three year Kenya Comprehen- poultry sive Drought Resilience Programme (KDRP) in the vaccinators reporting period. The KDRP came about in 2011 20 trained after the Government of Kenya declared drought a national disaster and highlighted the humanitarian crisis, particularly in the northern part of the coun- conservation through the cash for assets reaching try. ActionAid Kenya responded to the drought by 12,107 households in Mwingi. AAK together with designing a two-phase comprehensive drought local leaders and the provincial administrators resilience programme dubbed Kenya Comprehen- mobilised 23 new and existing Farmer Field and sive Drought Resilience Programme (KDRP). Learning Schools (FFLS) within the Cash for Assets (CFA) project supported by WFP benefitting 663 The three year programme focused on building households. Through the same partnership, AAK resilience as seen by ActionAid Kenya and other reached 36,400 community members through gen- humanitarian agencies as the most effective way to eral food distribution, 24,000 people through Food respond to disasters worsened by climate change for Assets and another 990 people through supple- and structural vulnerabilities. The first phase of

mentary feeding programme in Isiolo. Deepening Impact the KDRP was to provide relief to overcome the immediate humanitarian crisis with the second Equally, AAK in liaison with Livestock Production 25 phase focusing on building resilience amongst the and Veterinary Services Department was able to communities to be better able to cope with future train 20 target beneficiaries on poultry vaccination disasters. The programme was implemented in 14 and poultry production. These community poultry areas where AAK was already working and where vaccinators were trained and supported with fully the drought was considered the most severe. equipped 10 cooler boxes and 10 vaccine carriers which they utilized by vaccinating approximately During the period under review, AAK in collabora- 2000 birds during the reporting period. tion with World Food Programme (WFP) developed resilience structures particularly for water and soil Photo: ActionAid Kenya Photo:

03 Organizational Processes and Changes Organizational Processes and Changes

Improved Leadership and Governance for Enhanced Accountability

Overview Effective organogram with clear responsibilities, accountabilities In 2014, AAK sought to give more power and and reporting lines autonomy to field offices. This was done by ensuring more supervision, administration and techni- In 2014, ActionAid Kenya conducted a mid-term cal support was within or closer to LRPs through review of its CSP with the objective of assessing devolution of power to the LRPs and regions. While progress and performance against the strategy ensuring effective mechanisms are in place for up- while seeking to sharpen the focus for the remain- ward and downward accountability, this was done der of the strategy period. From the Organizational in line with recommendation from the revised CSP. Development perspective, the review pointed out the need to analyse the existing structure, process- Effective and Efficient National es and practices and align them to the agreed rec- Board and General Assembly ommendations from the CSP review. The mid-term CSP review on the Organization Development area The year under review saw a transition in the or- recommended changes be made to the organo- ganization’s National Board with the election of a gram with the intention of re-positioning AAK to be board member during the Annual General Meeting more effective and efficient while implementing the Deepening Impact held on 25th July 2014. The AGM also accepted second phase of The CSP. the appointment of an AAI representative to the 27 Board, Mr. Ruud van den Hurke who is the Execu- The review also recommended that the Policy and tive Director of ActionAid Netherlands. Additionally, Programmes department be split into two separate for the first time, the General Assembly member- departments. The Policy Department will focus on ship recruited 12 people from the communities matters of policy influencing through advocacy, and partners that AAK work with making AAK more research and campaigns at international, national accountable to the people that it works with. and county governments levels. Three clusters were also introduced to enhance supervision, ad- The General Assembly and the National Board ministration and technical support to LRPs. continued to work together with the Management to steer the organisation towards the achievement Under the Programmes Department, several of its mission’s priorities. The Board and General national positions were introduced to coordinate Assembly members joined Management in various women rights, mainstreaming resilience & emer- organizational events and participated in a number gencies, grant management and compliance as of community initiatives. well strengthen AAK’s child sponsorship work. Organizational Processes and Changes

Diversification and Growth in Funding

Whereas AAK has relied heavily on child spon- included parents, area education officers, teachers sorship funds, the income from this source has and community resource persons. steadily declined over the past five years. During the CSP review, it was apparent that AAK has to As part of AAK’s supporter retention strategy, select rethink its fundraising strategy and look at ways of children together with supporters from Italy did vid- diversifying its funding base. AAK therefore invest- eo message collection for sponsored children. The ed in enhancing its capacity for fundraising and activity, which motivated stakeholders to continue grant management. supporting child sponsorship activities, was done with 2,217 children from Makima, Kathonzweni and Bamburi LRPs. Regular supporters’ base maintained and expanded Stable and Diversified Funding Through International Partnership Under sponsorship fundraising, AAK processed Development and relayed communication to all supporters Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya leading to a supporter retention rate of 98%. AAK The year saw the achievement of the set income successfully organised the national annual spon- targets. The approved CSP fundraising strategy 28 sorship review and training for all sponsorship staff was operationalized part of which was geared to- in LRPs and head office as well as all new LRP wards the launch of local fundraising initiatives. As managers. The unit also supported start-up ac- a result of this and recommendation from the CSP tivities in Kathonzweni LRP, generating 1,427 child review, new areas of resource mobilization were ini- profiles. AAK received 650 new links in the year tiated towards end of 2014 such as the introduction from Italy. Local High Value Fundraising which was launched in 2014 while individual/ voluntary fundraising is AAK hosted child sponsorship induction for eight scheduled for 2015. new staff from South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, Lesotho, and Kenya. The team visited one of the Similarly, a donor scoping study was commis- new LRPs and assisted in continued awareness sioned and it provided intelligence to necessitate creation among communities on the child spon- expanded donor engagement and networking sorship concept. The team also participated in aimed at increasing donor relations and ultimately fun-day activities and message collection in some increasing funding from institutional donors. LRPs bringing together over 200 participants which Organizational Processes and Changes

Financial Management Systems to Ensure Timely Management Decision Making and Increased Accountability to All Stakeholders

Effective Internal Control Systems the tune of KES 841,572,000. Fifteen projects ended in 2014 while 21 transited to 2015. The grants/ The internal audit team performed its review of the projects were classified under four strategic objec- organisation’s financial statements and operations tives in AAK CSP 2012-2017 as follows: as per the approved work plan for 2014. It provided an opinion on the adequacy, compliance and The programme team ensured the organization operating effectiveness of internal controls and complied with the Memorandum of Understanding other financial and operating policies and proce- obligations to the respective donors by imple- dures. In addition to strengthening accountability menting the agreed activities and reporting within mechanisms, the unit also sought to add value. the stipulated timelines. This ensured the donors The risk register and audit programs were updated disbursed the grants within the stipulated timelines. periodically to incorporate any subsequent chang- Where it was foreseen that activities would not be es and ensure that they remain relevant to AAK’s implemented in the given period due to reasons requirements. beyond AAK’s control, the project implementers communicated this in advance to the respective Maintaining Healthy Reserve donors requesting for an extension of time. Deepening Impact Levels ActionAid ensured the donor relationships were 29 The financial health of the organisation was sta- maintained to increase the likelihood that the proj- ble throughout the year. AAK closed the year at a ects would be considered in the subsequent level positive reserve level of 2.2 Months which is within of grants. the AAI reserve policy. Though there was a sub- stantial drop in income both from AAK partners and The budget absorption in 2014 was relatively good Goods in kind, there was a net positive growth in for AAK. We intend to sustain the same in the the reserve level. coming years. The unit also continued to provide accurate and timely monthly management reports Effective Contract Management including narrative reports for timely and informed System implementation while ensuring that all taxes and statutory payments were paid on time. During the reporting period, AAK implemented 36 projects with a total grant portfolio from donors to Organizational Processes and Changes

Effective Program Quality Management to Deepen Impact

Focus: Organizing AAK’s work around outcomes and impacts that create long lasting result areas along performance and longer term goals.

In line with its Accountability Learning and Planning In order to enhance accountability across all levels, System (ALPS) and Human Rights based Ap- a training workshop was held for staff which largely proach, ActionAid Kenya worked with communities focussed on the senior management and program and partners to develop a results-based Monitoring staff. The workshop was meant to enhance skills and Evaluation (M&E) system that ensured that and knowledge and culminated in the development all AAK processes, operations and interventions of various accountability frameworks which will be effectively contributed to achievements of clearly significant in the delivery of revised CSP. Some of defined objectives while ensuring downward and the frameworks developed were geared towards upward accountability. This was done through re- enhancing existing processes such as transpar- viewing & operationalizing of M&E structures in line ency boards, participation & inclusion, complain with global M&E systems and enhanced capacity mechanisms & resolution, delivery of basic rights, building of staff & partners. mobilization and financial management. Finaliza- tion and adoption of these frameworks will be done Effective Monitoring and in 2015. Evaluation System for Enhanced Accountability, Decision-Making Communication unit worked hand in hand with the and Effectiveness programmes team to build solidarity with people living in poverty and exclusion by profiling their voices Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya To enhance efficiency for M&E activities in the and amplifying them to the local and international media. The unit also utilized social media networks 30 organization in the reporting period, AAK launched an online M&E system. Some 33 staff were taken such as Facebook and Twitter which provided time- through a training facilitated by the consultant who ly communication mechanism for staff, partners developed the system for buy in and adoption. and the general public. Staffs were trained on how to log in to the system, input data and make reports for respective units. All The communication unit undertook the inaugural LRP based staff and over 40 partners were trained Junior Communication Fellows Programme which on the online M&E system, participatory methodol- admitted the first six fellows. The early career en- ogies and reporting procedures. trants benefitted from skills and knowledge to influence their thinking and perceptions about poverty, During the year under review, AAK undertook its causes and social justice. The programme will PRRPs at the national and LRP level. These pro- seek to influence more young people to be game cesses, which were done in a participatory man- changers and social crusaders against poverty ner, were very important in informing the mid-term as well as key advocates in Human Rights Based review of the current CSP as well as the annual Approach to development. planning and budgeting for the year 2015. Organizational Processes and Changes

Effective Organization Structure and Work Force to Deliver the Strategy

Adequate, Competent, Committed proposed trainings needs for staff raised in their and Motivated Staff for Achieve- appraisal documents. This was the first time AAK ment of AAK’s Mission’s Priorities shared the training calendar and this encouraged staff to request for various training. Induction and on-boarding: In January 2014, AAK held a comprehensive induction for 13 new staff AAK also had the international HR audit conducted which lasted for three weeks. The induction en- in Kenya. From the audit findings, Kenya scored an abled the new staff to come up with performance average score of 2.9 out of 4. As a recommenda- objectives which were synchronized with their tion, AAK initiated awareness creation on policies respective positions. AAK also introduced one to ensure compliance. performance management feedback mechanism which was in the form of a letter giving feedback on Finally, AAK implemented a salary increment for the strengths and weak areas for improvement for all staff employed after December 31st 2013. AAK staff. also secured an AMREF cover for staff and their dependents which affords them 2 free air evacua- To support staff development, AAK prepared and tions in a year. shared the 2014 training calendar based on the Deepening Impact

31 04 Financial Statements Organizational Processes and Changes

Audited Financial Statements

The following are the audited financial statements Total incomes raised during the period totalled to for Actionaid Kenya for the year ended 31st De- £ 8.3million. This is a 19% decrease from last year cember 2014. The statements were audited by due to the decrease in the Goods in Kind received Ernst and Young. The auditors expressed an un- for distribution from the World Food programme. qualified opinion.

Income 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Type £ ‘000’ £ ‘000’ £ ‘000’ £ ‘000’ £ ‘000’ £ ‘000’ Regular Giving 3,970 3,764 3,775 3,428 3,293 3,060 Official Partnership 2,240 2,381 4,761 5,452 4,291 3,712 Goods in Kind 6,783 6,000 5,800 8,024 2,659 1,372 Other Incomes 38 207 54 64 73 206 Total 13,031 12,352 14,390 16,968 10,316 8,350

Regular giving incomes have steadily gone down over the years due to natural attrition; similarly there was a decline in partnership income attributed to a number of contracts coming to an end.

2019-2014 Income Trends Deepening Impact

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4,000 Other Incomes Goods in kind 2,000 Official Partnership Regular Giving 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Expenditures

Total expenditures during the period totalled £8,040 The project costs during the year made up 82% of million which was a decline by 24% from the 2013 the total costs while the support costs were 11%. expenses of £10,597 million. The decrease in ex- These are within the recommended ranges as a penditure is attributed to reduction in the goods in measure of operational efficiency. kind distributed during the year.

Statutory Cost 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Analysis £ ‘000’ £ ‘000’ £ ‘000’ £ ‘000’ £ ‘000’ £ ‘000’ Project Costs 11,352 10,518 10,965 14,474 9,529 6,614 Support Costs 817 904 436 560 577 883 Fundraising Costs 391 445 378 370 406 414 Governance Costs- Inter and Exter Auditors 92 83 53 58 48 68 Governance Costs- Others 30 40 37 36 37 61 Total 12,682 11,990 11,869 15,498 10,597 8,040 Project Costs as % of Total Costs 90% 88% 92% 93% 90% 82% Fund raising Costs as % of Total Income 3% 4% 3% 2% 4% 5% Support Costs as % of total Costs 6% 8% 4% 4% 5% 11%

Chart: Expenditures by Strategic Objectives

Programme Expenditure by Strategic Objectives

Cross Cutting Women Rights

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Emergencies 16 and Resillience 28 Governanve of Basic Rights 18 Livelihoods and Natural Resources ACTIONAID KENYA STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2014

2014 2013 Note KShs’000 KShs’000 INCOME Grant income and Goods in kind 5 1,176,496 1,495,054 Finance Income 6 6,080 12,438 Other income 7 19,152 2,128 Net Transfers 14(v) 1,410 3,265 Total Income 1,203,138 1,512,885

EXPENDITURE Direct expenditure Programme costs 8 637,333 962,024

Other expenditure Transfers to AAI 14 (iv) 31,746 37,117 Staff costs 9 307,889 274,898 Depreciation 12 22,064 16,420 Non Capital Assets 10 1,219 1,929 Motor vehicle maint. fuel and repairs 37,744 33,375 Travel and accommodation 53,280 43,367 Telecommunication, postage and stationery 17,571 18,729 Office running and maintenance costs 13,717 10,656 Rent and rates 11 21,581 20,685 Professional fees 10,143 9,882 Bank charges 1,638 1,262 Insurance 3,835 3,267

Other costs 1,410 3,315 Deepening Impact Utilities – water and electricity 2,322 3,269 35 Fund raising cost Sponsorship Costs 28,232 26,789 TOTAL EXPENDITURE 1,191,725 1,466,984

TOTAL SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) FOR THE YEAR Surplus/deficit for the year 11,413 45,901 ACTIONAID KENYA STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2014

2014 2013 Note KShs’000 KShs’000 ASSETS Non-current assets Property, plant and equipment 12 35,172 27,764

Current assets Receivables, prepayments and deposits 13 35,963 27,283 Due from ActionAid International 14(iii) 188,549 340,940 Cash and Bank Balance 15 146,413 98,691

Total Assets 406,097 494,678

EQUITY AND LIABILITIES Fund balances Unrestricted funds 249,996 238,583

Current liabilities

Accruals, creditors and other payables 16 26,220 69,940

Deferred income 17 129,881 186,155

TOTAL EQUITY AND LIABILITIES 406,097 494,678

CASH FLOW STATEMENT Annual Report 2014 Annual Report ActionAid Kenya Surplus (Deficit) for the year 11,413 45,901 36 Adjustments for: Depreciation (12) 22,064 16,420 Interest Income (6) (7,186) (7,395)

Operating gain (deficit) before working capital changes 26,291 54,926 Changes in Working Capital Receivables, prepayments and deposits (13) (8,680) 34,642 Deferred income (17) (56,274) (111,293) Accruals, creditors and other payables (16) (43,720) 27,430

Net cash from operating activities (82,383) 5,705

Cash flows from investing activities Acquisition of assets (29,472) (11,209)

ACTIONAID KENYA STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2014

2014 2013 Note KShs’000 KShs’000

Net cash from investing activities (29,472) (11,209)

Cash flows from financing activities Due from ActionAid International 152,391 (252,943) Interest Income 7,186 7,395 Net cash from financing activities 159,577 (245,548)

Net Increase /decrease in cash and bank balances 47,722 (251,052) Cash and bank balances at 1 January 98,691 349,743 Cash and bank balances at 31 December 146,413 98,691 Deepening Impact

37 05 Action Aid Kenya Governance Structure ActionAid Kenya 2014-15 Board Members

Mrs. ELizabeth May Wakilo Righa Board Chair ActionAid Kenya

Paul Kiayai Leringato Mwita Thomas Nyangi Bijay Kumar William Ntoina Vice Chair Treasurer Secretary to the Board and Board Member ActionAid Kenya Board ActionAid Kenya Board Executive Director ActionAid Kenya ActionAid Kenya Deepening Impact

DR. Loreen Iminza Ruud Van Den Hurk Isabella Mwagodi Fatuma H. Ahmed Maseno - Ouma Board Member Board Member Board Member Board Member ActionAid Kenya ActionAid Kenya ActionAid Kenya ActionAid Kenya

Abubakar K. Said Mayaka X Francis Eunice Keta Board Member Board Member Board Member ActionAid Kenya ActionAid Kenya ActionAid Kenya ActionAid Kenya General Assembly

Binti Ali Kiza Daisy Amdany Daniel Musyoki David Kithale Diana Mooke ActionAid Kenya ActionAid Kenya Maimbo ActionAid Kenya ActionAid Kenya ActionAid Kenya

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