Twaweza, East Africa – video
The lives of ordinary people in East Africa have not changed in proportion to the amount of investment into the area, according to Twaweza. This civil society organisation wants to involve citizens in bringing about large-scale change through engagement and accountability. They communicate in accessible language using traditional media like radio and TV, but are also experimenting with getting messages out via places of worship, teachers, mobile phones and by printing information on the packaging of popular retail products.
James Nduko, Kenya Program Manager at Twaweza East Africa, says:
We invest in initiatives that liberate information and make it widely available in simpler language; we also generate our own information through simple data assessment. Information that is useful and relevant to people’s situations completely shifts public engagement – without it, people do not have the means to hold their government to account.
To learn more, please download our two-page case study from Twaweza.
