Dada Labs · Data & Research
What cannot be named cannot be counted. What cannot be counted cannot change.
Kenya has never had a national, real-time femicide database linked to institutional outcomes. Dada Labs is building it. The data is public. The accountability is permanent.
The government stopped publishing this data in March 2025.
That was 68 weeks ago. We have not stopped. Every figure below comes from independent civil society research.
The Numbers
Geographic Distribution
Where the crisis is concentrated
Documented cases by county · Source: Silencing Women Project · Interactive county map coming in Dada Labs v2
Showing 8 of 47 counties. Data limited to English-language media coverage — rural and non-anglophone cases are systematically undercounted. True toll is higher.
Annual Accountability Instrument
The Intervention Priority Index
Every year, Dada Labs publishes a ranked, named list of the institutions and counties where the gap between harm and justice is widest. Submitted annually to the Judiciary, Parliament's Justice Committee, and county governments. Published in full.
2026 Index — Preview
Full index with methodology published annually. Named institutions receive advance right-of-reply.
Research & Reports
A Decade of Femicide in Kenya: 2016–2026
Silencing Women Project · Africa Data Hub
Socio-Cultural Analysis of Femicide in Kenya
UN Women Africa
KNCHR State of Human Rights Report 2025
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
2024: The Deadliest Year on Record for Kenyan Women
Africa Uncensored · Silencing Women Project
Methodology & Data Limitations
All statistics derive from the Silencing Women Project database (Odipo Dev · Africa Data Hub · Africa Uncensored), which covers seven English-language Kenyan media outlets plus Kenya Law Reports. This creates systematic urban and anglophone bias — rural femicides and those unreported by English-language media are structurally undercounted. The true toll is higher than any figure published here. We publish data under open methodology; every metric definition, collection method, and cadence is available for independent verification.
Read the full methodology →