Pathways Policy Institute (PPI) is a community-based policy and accountability non-profit organization, Meaningfully Engaging Communities (MEC) on Population Dynamics, Health, Environment, and Climate Justice. PPI aims to realise local solutions by strengthening community health systems to respond to health and climate challenges using a Primary Health Care (PHC) Lens.
PPI provides community-based advocates with avenues where their communities can meaningfully influence primary health, sexual reproductive health, and environmental policies by conducting research, training, and capacity strengthening.
Undertaking policy and budget review, applied research and analysis to inform public policy in Kenya, feeding results into community-led policy dialogue and county-level decision-making.
Back to photosBuilding the capacity of civil society organizations, community groups and County Governments in policy development, implementation and monitoring for more responsive outcomes.
Back to photosPromoting public participation in county policy processes so citizen voice, social accountability and responsive service delivery become the norm, not the exception.
Back to photosFour focus areas, delivered through community-anchored programs across Kenya's counties.
Research and analysis that keeps community demographics and lived realities at the centre of county and national policy decisions.
Strengthening community health systems and sexual reproductive health policy through a Primary Health Care lens — from research to training to on-the-ground capacity strengthening.
Supporting community advocates to shape environmental policy through evidence, training and capacity strengthening.
Helping communities respond to climate challenges and influence the policies that determine local climate resilience.
Words from the leaders and community members we work alongside across Kenya's counties.
I've seen what drought does to our herds and to our girls' early marriage, lost school days, no access to health services, and Pathways helped me connect those dots into advocacy. My community's health and my community's land are not two different fights; Pathways helped me see that, and now I say it in every budget hearing I attend. Because of Pathways, I know my county's Family Planning budget has tripled since 2019, and I know it's because women like me kept showing up to ask for it. As a woman living through drought and climate stress, I learned that resilience isn't just about surviving it, it's about my right to choose if, when, and how many children to have. Pathways didn't just consult women in my community; they gave us the tools to write the health and climate policy that affects us.
Felishina Kimani
Community Social Auditor, Ngobit
Health for every Laikipian is our main agenda, we are determined to realise primary health care and universal health coverage through Primary Care Network Laikipia Afya Mashinani Program (LAMP).
Dr. Albert Taiti
CECM Health, Laikipia County
