SIGN ,SHARE,PASS IT ALONG…..#EVERYMOTHERCOUNTS

SIGN,SHARE,PASS IT ALONG….I have spent the better part of my evening going through the Kenya Reproductive Health Bill(2019).If you haven’t read it ,you should because while the press and politicians have made it all about providing teenagers with sex education,most of the clauses in the Bill cover the issue of surrogacy or what in the

MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES:WAY FORWARD FOR KENYAN MOTHERS

Kenya has a current Maternal Mortality ratio of 362/100,000,the figure puts it among the countries with the highest mortality rates in the region.To put this number into context for every 1,000 Kenyan women who give birth,3 are likely to die from a pregnancy related complication , as a result of childbirth or a complication arising

MATERNAL HEALTH SPENDING BY NATIONAL AND COUNTY GOVERNMENTS #EVERYMOTHERCOUNTS

With this post,I am going to use figures from government records,cite recommendations from government reports,these reports generally say everything that government has suggested should be done but with no political goodwill,maternal health continues being a non issue to our elected leaders. However before I do that,I would like us to pass by Baringo county for

WHY KENYA NEEDS MORE MIDWIVES TO STEM HIGH MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIO

This is my second post in the campaign I am running #EveryMotherCounts this week in memory of all the mothers we have lost as they brought life into the world. It is a follow up to a post I had out on Facebook and I noticed of the mothers who had commented on it,the ones

EVERY MOTHER COUNTS:SORRY STATE OF MATERNAL SERVICES IN KENYA

This weekend was not a good one,the news of a young mother’s death days after childbirth triggered memories of losing a friend as she delivered a baby boy in one of the private hospitals in Kenya’s capital city Nairobi.She walked in for delivery,hours later she lay cold and lifeless from excessive bleeding,leaving behind a baby

ROUNDTABLES :CREATING A SPACE FOR WOMEN’S VOICES

Legend has it that King Arthur and his knights congregated around a table that was circular.Seating himself and his knights this way ensured there was no head hence no squabbles .Everyone, King Arthur included enjoyed equal status,everyone’s voice counted .This very democratic way of decision making probably might explain their epic exploits. Mezani,in Swahili a

WOMEN IN EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES :THE POWER OF COLLABORATION

For women living in emerging market economies,their biggest potentials are in partnerships and collaborations that align with their values.There is a power in coming together to achieve a common goal and not just for the group but at an individual level where someone feels part of something bigger than themselves. Collaboration allows us to put

SHARED ECONOMY:CLOSING THE GENDER GAP IN EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES

Before there was Uber ,there was Zipcar a car sharing service that was founded by two women Robin Chase and Antje Danielson.Started in Boston,the idea was to provide cars on demand to Zipcar Club members which are then billed for hourly and per mileage.Kind of like having your own car but for which you dont

WHY DO MORE WOMEN THAN MEN HAVE THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME ?

Today at 3am ,I was awake ,listening to a webinar by John Marty with Kristin Gallucci,Bobby Umar and Joel Hansen and was on personal branding .I am in Kenya and we are about 11 hours ahead of the Pacific Standard Time but I thought that I really need to hear what they had to say

AFRICA CANNOT AFFORD TO IGNORE ITS WOMEN :THEY ARE KEY TO AFRICA’S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION

Investing in women is smart economics,and investing in girls,catching them upstream,is even smarter economics. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala Technology in Africa is what the textile mills were to Europe during the Industrial revolution in the mid 18th to mid 19th century.The textile mills which initially were powered by water then later steam propelled Europe into the