Programmes
Economic Justice and Good Governance
Under the Economic Justice and Good Governance programme, we are involved in three major actions: The Nairobi Basic Needs Basket, Debt Cancellation, and Trade Campaigns.
The Nairobi Basic Needs Basket
This is an independent household survey that calculates the cost of living in twelve informal settlements in Nairobi by recording the average expenditures on food and noon-food items in about fourteen informal settlements within Nairobi. The survey uses several indicators of social well-being: employment, size of the household, gender, health, educational levels, housing, access to water and sanitation, and social networks like merry-go-rounds. JHC publishes its household survey every year as The Nairobi Basic Needs Basket.
For details on these surveys, see
The Nairobi Basic Needs Basket Jan-Jun 2007 preliminary report
The Nairobi Basic Needs Basket 2006 (published by Paulines Publications Africa, Nairobi)
The Nairobi Basic Needs Basket 2005 (published by Rocknet, Nairobi)
The Nairobi Basic Needs Basket 2004 (published by Paulines Publications Africa, Nairobi)
The survey also establishes food poverty levels and overall poverty levels in these informal settlements. It rejects a static absolute poverty line, and adopts the actual average amount spent by households as the absolute poverty line.
Click here to learn more about The Nairobi Basic Needs Basket.
Debt Cancellation and Trade Campaigns
As a member of the Catholic Economic Justice Network (CEJN), and the Africa Europe Faith Justice Network (AEFJN, www.aefjn.org), we are active in the Debt Cancellation and Trade campaigns. These include the Kenyan Debt Cancellation campaign and the Campaign against unjust Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs).