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By Margaret Nakunza Along Lake Victoria’s Kenyan shore, a decades-old practice known locally as jaboya has forced many women fish traders into transactional sex with fishermen just to secure the day’s catch. The practice is well documented by researchers and journalists covering the region, has been linked to elevated HIV infection rates in fishing communities, and is intensified, research shows, by dwindling […]

By Punita Maheshwari  Energy poverty in rural India has long been framed as a technology problem, or a capital problem. Amit Saraogi, CEO and Co-founder of Oorja Development Solutions, came to see it as something else entirely: a mismatch between how solar was sold and how a farmer actually pays. Diesel worked because it was small, cash, and as-needed. […]

By Margaret Nakunza Across East Africa, roughly 95% of households still depend on solid fuels like wood and charcoal for cooking, and outside Kenya, fewer than 10% have access to cleaner alternatives like LPG or electricity. That dependence exposes an estimated 390 million people to indoor smoke and contributed to close to 294,000 deaths in 2021 alone, making […]

By Margaret Nakunza Most countries electrify their roads from the top down. Government buys electric buses, subsidises electric cars, and waits for the technology to trickle to everyone else. Kenya did the opposite. The vehicles leading its transition are not buses or sedans but boda bodas — the motorcycle taxis that move people and parcels through every Kenyan […]