StoryNashipae’s year in the safe space
A mentor, a savings group, and a room of her own once a week. What the AGEP model looks like from the inside, in one girl’s words.
February 2025 · 5 min readRead
Empowering young people to thrive
Kenya is young. What its adolescents learn, earn, and withstand today decides the country's next thirty years.
The Case for Action
We build and test the programs that give young people — girls especially — a fair shot: safe spaces, mentorship, financial capability, and the resilience to weather climate and economic shocks. From the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program in the north to DREAMS in the informal settlements, our evaluations show what actually moves the needle, so that governments and partners invest in what works rather than what sounds good.
Stories from this work
2 storiesStory
EvidenceWhen the rains fail: what resilience actually costs
Tracking pastoralist households across three dry seasons in Turkana to learn which coping strategies hold — and which quietly deepen the crisis.
January 2025 · 8 min readRead
The Evidence, in Numbers
7,500+
Girls reached in AGEP
120K
Households studied
34%
Improvement in resilience
Partner with us
We collaborate with government agencies, development partners, community organizations, and academic institutions to scale evidence-based solutions.