Kenya

Center for International Private Enterprise
$240,895
To strengthen the capacity of civil society coalitions to monitor public funds and advocate for budget reforms. CIPE will support the Institute of Economic Affairs and civil society coalitions in monitoring devolved county budgets and strengthening democratic governance through fiscal dialogue with local governments.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$295,419
To strengthen the voice of associations representing informal business to advocate for legislation that will enable greater public participation in democratic governance. Kenya National Alliance of Street Vendors and Informal Traders will lead an advocacy campaign and raise awareness of the Kenyan Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) Bill.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$255,338
To strengthen the capacity of civil society coalitions to advocate for policy changes to improve the business environment, to foster issues-based political dialogue, and to improve local governance through business association advocacy for the implementation of existing laws. CIPE will work with KAM to develop county business agendas, organize several public-private dialogue events and political debates, and monitor anti-corruption initiatives.

InformAction
$60,000
To raise the profile of ordinary people and their views and create new leadership and social justice movements to tackle poor governance and impunity IFA will use its mobile field offices to conduct community meetings and present IFA's documentary films on key democracy-related issues in Kenya. IFA will also maintain its interactive website.

International Republican Institute
$685,000
To prepare citizens and civil society stakeholders to participate in the political process and to provide newly elected county officials with the skills to govern democratically, IRI will conduct civic education training and public forums for CSOs and public administration training for county officials.

Kenya Muslim Youth Alliance
$66,230
To enhance ethnic and religious reconciliation. KMYA will continue to distribute its bi-monthly newspaper, New Dawn, featuring articles on political issues confronting muslim and non-muslim readers. The group will also conduct interfaith and interethnic reconciliation fora for youth around the country.

Media Focus on Africa Foundation
$40,817
To institutionalize constructive media engagement on governance issues in Kenya. Through a series of public and private roundtables, MFA will engage media professionals, civil society representatives, academics, and the public in thoughtful discourse and examination of the ways in which the media detracts from or contributes to the amelioration of governance in Kenya. www.mediafocusonafrica.org/portal.php

Nairobi Disabled Empowerment Programme
$35,095
To foster accountable governance in Dagoretti and Kibera slums by holding civic education trainings for persons with disabilities (PWDs), assisting PWDs to run for elected office, and producing radio advertisements that familiarize listeners with PWDs' rights. Engaging citizens on a crosscutting issue such as PWD rights will be useful practice for citizens to engage in the upcoming elections with a view towards issue-based, rather than ethnic-based, politics.

Peace Tree Network
$22,748
To encourage peaceful political engagement among youth in the Mt. Elgon region. Peace Tree Network (PTN) will train youth groups in advocacy and the promotion of political and ethnic tolerance. The group will use radio to reach a wider audience with messages promoting reconciliation and constructive political action.

Grant descriptions are from the 2012 NED Annual Report.