Launching the RANA Kenya Working Group

On Thursday, 27 Nov. 2025, in Nairobi, Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), in partnership with the People’s Health Movement (PHM) Kenya and rani (Resilience Action Network International), launched the RANA Kenya Working Group — a national platform designed to bring diverse partners together around a shared resilience agenda.

Kenya is navigating an increasingly complex landscape of overlapping shocks. Communities and households are confronting climate-driven emergencies, public health threats, rising living costs, and widening gender and social inequalities. These intersecting pressures demand coordinated solutions — ones that draw from community expertise, civil society leadership, and evidence grounded in Kenyan realities.

The RANA Kenya Working Group aims to strengthen societal resilience by serving as a convening space, it brings together organisations, networks, and advocates who are already driving change, enabling them to collectively identify priorities, share insights, influence policy, and build a stronger, more connected movement for resilience.

A Collaborative Launch

The inaugural meeting brought together a diverse range of partners from across Kenya, including civil society organisations, youth groups, community networks, researchers, health advocates, climate actors, and policy practitioners. This diversity reflects the depth and breadth of Kenya’s resilience ecosystem and the conviction that no single sector can deliver resilience alone.

Moving forward, RANA’s Kenya Working Group will strengthen national coordination and help advance RANA’s continental mission: building a resilient, healthy Africa that is firmly rooted in its people yet globally connected, in partnership with rani.

Join the Journey 

RANA invites partners across sectors to join this growing effort in Kenya. Building resilience requires coordinated advocacy, strong community systems, and sustained engagement from all corners of society. The launch of the Kenya Working Group is an encouraging start — and a reminder of what becomes possible when organisations come together around a common purpose.

RANA is grateful to all partners who participated in the inaugural meeting and we look forward to continuing this collaborative journey to craft and action a resilience agenda for Kenya to further a vision of a Kenya where communities are empowered, systems are responsive, and resilience is not just a concept, but a lived reality.