Kenya Debt Relief Network (KENDREN) is a network of non-governmental and religious organizations, community based associations and individuals across the country concerned with the enormous debt burden in Kenya that continues to cripple development and efforts to improve the living standards of the country’s citizens.

The network was officially launched in 1999 with an emphasis to coordinate and facilitate civil society activities towards cancellation of the country’s debt in the light of the Jubilee 2000 campaigns worldwide.

At the time the network was formed, Kenya’s debt burden was a matter between the government and creditor nations and donors with no input at all from civil society organizations and the general public. The network thus sought to demystify and politicize the debt crisis in Kenya by involving interested stakeholders in debt cancellation campaigns and by proposing policies and mechanisms for its effective management before and after cancellation.

Since its inception, KENDREN has worked with debt campaigners from the global Jubilee movement, environmentalists, and other social and economic justice activists. It uses the debt crisis afflicting Kenya and other countries in the South as an entry point to analyze social and economic injustices and to campaign for the resolution of problems that have their roots in the debt.