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Kenya: 100 km of roads to transform residents’ lives
The ASAL Roads Rehabilitation Project is improving connectivity and safety across Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands.
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Powering villages in Kenya's Turkana County
Although Kenya’s electrification rate is higher than the sub-Saharan average, rural areas still lag far behind.
Shaping the future of electricity between Kenya and Ethiopia
East African countries have joined forces to create an electricity backbone to trade energy and compensate for shortages in the region. Supported by a €90 million loan from AFD, the Kenya-Ethiopia int...
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Ex-post evaluation of the Kisumu Urban Project (KUP), Kenya
The project (CKE1035) aimed at structurally improving both the management and the quality of life in the city, through soft (ex: capacity building, urban planning…) and hard investments (ex: infrastru...
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MacroDev - Semestrial Panorama 2024 #2
2024 was supposed to be a year of rate cuts, ending with a question mark over the US elections which would reopen the scenarios for 2025… Yet, firstly, inflation is struggling to leave the stage and g...
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Comparative Study on Financing Schemes for Student Accommodation in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, & South Africa
This comparative study analyzes the student accommodation sectors in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, focusing on prevalent business models, benefits, challenges, and opportunities. The study...
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Kenya: specialist doctors in Kisumu City
In Kisumu, Kenya's third largest city, access to healthcare remains limited. This is why AFD has supported the extension of the Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu, which aims to improve access to healthcare,...
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Kenya: a maternity ward for Lumumba hospital
Once a modest health center, the Lumumba establishment has become a reference hospital in Kisumu, au Kenya. It received support from AFD for its expansion and equipment, which allowed it to open a mat...
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Sustainable energy in Eastern Africa: the importance of regional integration
Jérémy Gasc, Energy Task Team Leader for Eastern Africa at AFD, details the potential of regional integration for the development of green energy in the region, but also AFD's actions to support this...
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A bright future for Kenya's forests
« If the Americans are putting a man on the moon, then we can be able to plan trees in our forests » - Professor Wangari Maathai, Peace Nobel Prize winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement. Fore...
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Environmental Sustainability in Kenya: A case study in the Environmental Sustainability Gap Framework (ESGAP) ...
To adapt the ESGAP framework to the Kenyan socio-ecological context, this project analysed the in-country environmental legislation landscape and existing environmental policy frameworks to determine...
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Kenya: Tailoring a city to its residents
In Western Kenya, Kisumu city is home to 600,000 residents. A figure that keeps growing. To support the city in accommodating its population, AFD Group and the city of Kisumu have partnered for over...
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AFD in Eastern Africa: Partnering for the rural territories
Does your country or institution wish to promote productive #rural areas that are respectful of nature ? You need a partner who shares the same objectives for those rural areas: ✔Supporting and a...
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Rendemic uncertainties in developing countries: Issues arising from an increased interdependence between banks...
An increased recourse to financing from the domestic banking sector has proved to be an important source of resilience for many developing countries in their efforts to face expenditures generated by...
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Inequality Trends and Diagnostics In Kenya 2020
This report is a joint publication produced by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in partnership with the Eastern Africa research node of the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Re...
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Protecting the water ressource of Lake Victoria
Present in the East Africa region for more than 20 years, AFD has been working with the cities bordering Lake Victoria to improve access to clean water and sanitations for the population. A long term...
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AFD and the water and sanitation sector in Kenya
Kenya has embarked on an ambitious Water and Sanitation Sector Development Program. In order to contribute to its achievement, AFD is focusing on three main strategic lines: Improving access to...
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East Africa - 2020-2024 Regional Strategy
Based in Nairobi, the Eastern Africa Regional Office covers eleven countries: Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and Tanzania. This regional st...
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Inequality in Kenya: Trends and Policy Responses
New analysis of trends in inequality in Kenya draws on three household surveys spanning a period of 20 years and a range of indicators of inequality. The findings reveal wide differences across househ...
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Fiscal Policies in Kenya: Effects on Poverty and Inequalities
New research analyzes the impact of fiscal policies by Kenya’s government on both poverty and inequality, identifying tax and social spending actions that have the greatest potential to alleviate pove...
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Fiscal incidence, inequality and poverty in Kenya: A CEQ assessment
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effects of fiscal policy actions by the Government of Kenya on inequality and poverty. The paper uses the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS...
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