Programmes
The African Center for Health, Climate & Gender Justice Alliance is committed to revolutionizing agriculture through innovative and sustainable practices. By harnessing Kenya’s favourable climate and agricultural potential, we empower smallholder farmers and herders to adopt climate-resilient strategies, expand market access, and foster economic growth.
Climate-Resilient Health & SRHR
Climate change is now recognized by the World Health Organization as one of the greatest public health threats of this century, projected to cause hundreds of thousands of additional deaths annually by mid-century through malnutrition, disease, and heat stress alone. In Kenya, rising temperatures, droughts, floods, and displacement disproportionately threaten the health, dignity, and rights of women, girls, and adolescent. Our work strengthens climate-resilient primary healthcare, maternal and adolescent health, mental health and psychosocial support, climate-informed disease surveillance, and emergency preparedness, on the conviction that protecting SRHR is inseparable from achieving climate justice.
Climate Justice and Loss and Damage
Our Climate Dues project highlights the impact of climate- induced losses and damages on vulnerable communities. The project advocates for climate justice by ensuring that communities affected by climate disasters receive adequate support to cope with the growing costs of loss and damage. The project was inspired by Johari Lisa, our 15-year-old Climate Ambassador. In 2024, devastating flash floods struck her community, destroying roads and bridges. Her story reflects the lived reality of millions of young people across climate-vulnerable regions. Climate Dues is the heartbeat of the #PayUp4LossandDamage campaign. Email ngusale@achcga.org
Women and Youth Voices
Between 2016 and 2024, Kenya recorded over 1,069 reported cases of femicide. Behind these statistics are women and girls whose lives were violently taken, often followed by harmful media narratives that label victims as “gold diggers” or “irresponsible socialites.” Such reporting shifts blame to victims and worsens trauma experienced by mothers, sisters, daughters, and communities left behind. . The Scars of Femicide project seeks to challenge this silence and stigma by creating a storytelling and advocacy platform led by young women and girls. We aim to restore the dignity of victims by speaking truth to power. Email gwahalla@achcga.org for more details.
Research, Innovation & Evidence for Systems Change
In partnership with the Coalition for Health Research and Development (CHReaD), ACHCGA advances health research and innovation by empowering young researchers, universities, and emerging scientific leaders to develop locally driven solutions to Africa’s most pressing health and climate challenges. Through strategic partnerships, capacity strengthening, and knowledge exchange, we foster an ecosystem where innovation translates into measurable social impact. We champion inclusive research systems that prioritize locally generated knowledge, gender-responsive innovation, and climate-resilient health systems.
Community Resilience, Food Systems & Sustainable Livelihoods
Climate resilience begins at community level, and in Kenya that means agriculture. ACHCGA is committed to revolutionizing agriculture through innovative, sustainable practices harnessing Kenya’s agro-ecological potential to help smallholder farmers and pastoralists adapt to worsening drought while expanding market access and household income. Climate adaptation, in this pillar, is measured in harvests, incomes, and food security, not just in policy papers. Our initiatives promote climate-smart agriculture, sustainable food systems, pastoralist resilience, women’s economic empowerment, youth green entrepreneurship, ecosystem restoration, and water security investing in solutions that help communities adapt, recover, and thrive while protecting the biodiversity and natural resources their livelihoods depend on.
