Africa · Eastern Africa
29 projects · 29 organizations
The world's first blue carbon project pays a Kenyan fishing community to protect and replant the mangroves of Gazi Bay.
Solar-powered desalination in shipping containers turns seawater into affordable drinking water for coastal Kenya.
A coalition of Lamu community groups kept a Sh200 billion coal plant from ever burning a lump of coal beside a UNESCO World Heritage town.
East Africa's licensed e-waste recycler dismantles old phones, computers and appliances in Nairobi so toxic components never reach landfill or open dumps.
A Kenyan climate-tech company sells pay-as-you-go solar irrigation pumps that let smallholder farmers grow food year-round without diesel fuel or grid power.
A Kenyan footballer pledges eleven indigenous trees for every goal he scores, one for each player on the pitch, and has turned his pledge into a youth reforestation movement.
A community-led reforestation drive in western Kenya where widows and people with disabilities earn a living growing tree seedlings instead of begging.
Moving the Goalposts trains girls across Kenya's coast as football players, coaches and referees, pairing the game with reproductive health education and leadership training.
A Kenyan NGO that has helped drylands communities build 680 stone sand dams across seasonal rivers, banking rainy-season flow underground where it can't evaporate or run dry.
A Congolese refugee who arrived in Kakuma with nothing built the camp's largest plastic recycling enterprise, turning waste into jobs.
Nonprofit supplying East and Southern African smallholder farmers with seed, fertilizer, training and credit to boost harvests.
A national movement of grassroots, women-led community groups training Kenyan women to map, register and defend their names on land titles in a country where only 3% of women hold a title deed solely in their own name.
A Nairobi social enterprise carves discarded beach flip-flops into vivid sculptures, turning marine debris into income for local artisans.
A Kenyan farmer network that has revived dozens of vanishing indigenous crop varieties by building a nationwide web of community seed banks.
Pioneering elephant tracking from Samburu that helps secure a future for Africa's elephants.
Kenya's first all-women ranger unit, made up of young Maasai women, patrols the wildlife corridor between Amboseli and Tsavo to stop poaching and defuse human-elephant conflict.
A community forest association turned a logged, squatted and dumped-on patch of Nairobi into one of the world's largest thriving urban forests.
A traditional Kenyan dhow built from 10 tonnes of ocean plastic and 30,000 flip-flops sails East Africa's coast to prove single-use plastic can become a boat, a bus stop or a school desk.
A Nairobi factory melts down discarded plastic bags, sachets and bottle caps with sand to press paving bricks that outperform ordinary concrete.
Kenya's national council of churches has 100,000 trees in the ground towards a ten-year pledge of 1.5 billion, and in September 2025 more than 600 Kisumu clergy launched a drive asking every member to plant at least one tree at home.
At Munje on Kenya's south coast, a 40-hectare patch of reef is left alone for months, then opened for a few days so women can gather octopus that have grown fat.
A Nairobi factory mass-manufacturing fuel-efficient Jikokoa cookstoves that cut indoor smoke and charcoal use in African kitchens.
Social enterprise converting fecal sludge from Nairobi's informal settlements into organic fertilizer, insect protein and biogas.
An alliance of indigenous pastoralist-led community conservancies governing millions of hectares of communally owned rangeland in northern Kenya.
Kenya's pioneering orphan-elephant rescue that raises and rewilds calves orphaned by poaching and drought.
Boxgirls Kenya teaches boxing and self-defence to girls in Nairobi's informal settlements, using the ring to build confidence, leadership and protection from gender-based violence.
Instead of waiting for a drought to become a crisis, Kenya Red Cross now releases cash, seeds and water repairs the moment forecasts turn ugly.
Wangari Maathai's grassroots movement that empowers Kenyan women to restore forests.
After women were stripped at Nairobi bus stages, a group started training the matatu crews themselves rather than only condemning them.