KENYA CASE STUDY - Centering Women’s Rights Organizations: Evaluative Research on Oxfam’s COVID-19

It highlights the experiences of WROs in response to the pandemic, the power dynamics between WROs and international humanitarian actors, and the quality and quantity of support provided to WROs by their international partners during the pandemic response. [...] The workshop also provided an opportunity for the team to discuss the criteria for selecting the WROs that would participate in the study and the modalities for data collection and analysis. [...] The review covered international frameworks such as the Charter for Change and Grand Bargain, formal and informal LHL commitments, the localization performance measurement framework, and reports and academic papers on LHL and the leadership of WROs in the response to the pandemic in Kenya. [...] WROS AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC RESPONSE IN KENYA While the national and county governments and INGOs/donors endeavored to include the priorities of WROs in COVID-19 pandemic responses, more could have been done to ensure the needs of women and girls were addressed adequately. [...] Following the cancellation of the 2020 Devolution Conference owing to the pandemic, a WRO that had received funds for the event and used them to prepare had to look for resources to refund their donor, leading to financial distress.