Collaborative Centre for Gender and Development (CCGD) with support from Ford Foundation is in the process of mobilizing stakeholders to revive the Kenya Gender Budgeting Network (KGBN) and make it vibrant to facilitate: development of GRB knowledge, skills & expertise; continuous stock-taking & definition of its goals as well as ensuring actualization of continuous learning opportunities for members of the network. KGBN will also revive networking with regional and international GRB networks.

This is a call to former and new institutions and individuals interested in advancing the objectives of GRB in Kenya and beyond to express their interest by writing an email to: Nicholas Muthama n.muthama@ccgdcentre.org copy to ccgdinfo@gmail.org   We shall acknowledge all emails received.

The Collaborative Centre for Gender and Development (CCGD) was established in 1996 by a small group of academics, researchers and development experts to build capacity in gender responsive planning, advocacy and programming, CCGD has grown into a dependable policy research and advocacy resource organization with program presence at county, national and regional levels. CCGD conducts gender responsive research to gather evidence for its advocacy against inequality and discrimination. CCGD seeks to promote gender responsive capacity building and institutional development of all sectors in planning, budgeting, programming, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. CCGD works through multisector partnerships between international, regional and national government agencies as well as civil society and private sector interests to promote institutional accountability to gender responsive governance and equitable development that secures rights and enables empowerment of in particular women and girls.