30 days in: What we're learning from the Access Without Payment Campaign

On 15 August, Kate Riley Foundation conducted its first restocking of Police Abstracts and P3 Forms across three of the four police facilities where we currently operate:

• Mathare Police Station — launched 14 July

• Huruma Police Station — launched 21 July

• Kariobangi South Police Post — launched 28 July

The early results have been both encouraging and instructive.

At Mathare, our flagship station, the initial 100 P3 Forms were exhausted on 14 August — exactly 30 days after launch. We had initially supplied 100 P3 Forms and 250 Police Abstracts.

At Huruma, the initial stock of 100 P3 Forms and 250 Police Abstracts had been completely exhausted by 8 August — just 18 days after launch.

At Kariobangi South, we supplied 70 P3 Forms and 300 Police Abstracts at launch. By 15 August, the station required a top-up of 35 P3 Forms and 100 Police Abstracts.

The feedback from all three stations has been overwhelmingly positive.

Officers in charge of the Crimes Office at Mathare Police Station told us that their caseload had seen a notable increase in August. Their observation is that removing the financial barrier has enabled more victims of violence and abuse to pursue their cases beyond the reporting desk, rather than abandoning them because they cannot afford the documents required to move the process forward. This feedback has also challenged one of our initial assumptions. We initially understood that P3 Forms cost approximately KES 10 per page, making the 10-page form roughly KES 100. Our experience on the ground, however, has shown that printing shops around these three police facilities can charge KES 150–300 for a P3 Form. For someone living in Mathare, Huruma and, Kariobangi, who has just experienced violence or abuse, an additional KES 150–300 can be enough to bring the pursuit of justice to an end.

We are therefore pleased to report that our intervention is doing exactly what we hoped it would: removing a financial barrier to justice. Every Police Abstract provided free of charge means that a member of the four communities we serve can swiftly replace key documents and mobile phone sim cards that have been lost or stolen. In the same breath, every P3 Form made freely available represents an opportunity for a case involving violence or abuse to move beyond the reporting desk and into the justice process.

And this is only our first month.

We are now using what we are learning from these three facilities and our latest addition to strengthen the model as we hope to continue the expansion of the Access Without Payment Campaign across East "Eastlands" Nairobi .

The data is beginning to tell the story.