Strengthening Civil Society in Kenya
Actual Policy Use
Civil society organizations (CSOs) play a vital role in democracies. They ensure that people have a voice in their government and are pivotal in the fight against corruption .
CSOs had difficulty engaging the Kenyan government in national debates, due in part to the paucity of data available to them. The 2002 HIV/AIDS subaccount reported that the government spent most of their HIV/AIDS money on prevention and did not contribute to antiretroviral therapy (ART).
The Kenya Treatment Access Movement used these findings to lobby the government for an ART budget line-item and to gain a more prominent role in policy discussions.
