Extractives Baraza is a multisector advocacy-neutral public platform, hosted at the Strathmore Extractives Industry Centre based at Strathmore University, which aims to facilitate access to information and foster meaningful stakeholder engagement in the extractives industry in Kenya and the broader African region. We work to challenge perceptions, redefine stakeholder engagement practices in Africa’s extractives sector and promote evidence based and impact driven research. Together with SEIC, we provide training and capacity building to a range of stakeholders, particularly young African professionals, to enhance their ability to utilize and benefit from the extractives sector and to stimulate sustainable economic growth.

Our approach is structured around two streams of inform and connect key to the transformation of dialogue and perceptions in the extractives sector. Specifically we work to: