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Children's services in Kenya

The Map below shows the Local CSO (Children Services Organizations) and the demographics of Teenage pregnancy in Kenya. Click on the color indicators to view the names and location.

Online Child Sexual Exploitation (Ocse) Training

CAF was able to mobilize child-focused CSOs for an OCSE training in December 2019. The training was conducted by: Terres Des Homes (tdh), Childline Kenya, African Institute for Children Studies (AICS)....

Stakeholders workshop

The Global estimate of girls who are affected by forced early child marriage is about 650 million. The AU has been trying to address this issue and they launched the African Union Campaign to End Child Marriage in Africa. This Campaign was launched in 2014 during the 4^th AU Conference. The campaign was initially set to last for 2 years (2014-2016) but was extended to 2018...

CSO report to the ACERWC

On Monday and Tuesday, 14^th& 15^th October 2019, Kenyan Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) had a consultative workshop to finalize on the CSOs report to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. This report is later on supposed to be presented to the African Union (AU)...

Our Key focus areas

Child-focused Research

Reporting by both government and the children sector has been cited as a major challenge in implementing and monitoring children programs in Kenya. The Forums intends to bridge this gap through a number of interventions.

Children Interests Advocacy

The forum believes the government both county and national are able to finance children's services effectively by prioritizing children. The forum will also analyze the final budget and interpret it into a child-friendly version and disseminate it to children.

Capacity Building

Child participation is still a challenge in Kenya, hence the forum will embark to build the capacity of children actors in child participation, and this will be through training and workshops.