The ASAL Humanitarian Network (AHN) has launched the inaugural edition of its quarterly newsletter, ASAL Horizons, covering milestones achieved between January and September 2025. Designed for members, partners, and stakeholders, the publication showcases the progress, learning, and collective action driving locally led humanitarian and development responses across Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL).

This first edition highlights achievements under AHN’s four thematic pillars — Advocacy & Accountability, Climate-Resilient HDP Nexus, Research, Innovation & Learning, and Organisational Capacity Development. It captures key engagements, such as AHN’s participation at the European Humanitarian Forum (EHF2025), collaboration with OCHA and Oxfam in the East Africa Humanitarian Reset Dialogue, and the operationalisation of the Virtual Pooled Fund (VPF) which enabled rapid local response in Marsabit, Garissa, and Isiolo.

The newsletter also features AHN’s gender analysis in Garissa, Tana River, Turkana, and Marsabit, which informed local Gender Action Plans, as well as a real-time review of the March–May floods and a national consultation on the draft Public Benefit Organisations (PBO) Regulations 2025. Across these initiatives, AHN demonstrates the value of local leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and policy engagement in driving equitable and accountable humanitarian action.

Through ASAL Horizons, AHN invites readers to explore stories of resilience, leadership, and innovation from local actors shaping the future of humanitarian response.