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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 interconnection is guaranteeing stable electricity to 870,000 Kenyan households while providing...

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: infrastructure improvement), in a multi-sectoral approach. In terms of project structuring and...

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 give way to widespread and significcant rate cuts. Secondly, political factors already...

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 reveals ten key takeaways, including high demand, diverse supply options, deficits in addressing...

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, particularly for specialists, in the region. 13 Aga Khan health centers depend on this...

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 maternity ward and to be able to care for mothers in an integrated manner. This is part of a larger...

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 approach.

« 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. Forests play a key role in Kenya, as they influence rainfall patterns, carbon emissions and...

To adapt the ESGAP framework to the Kenyan socio-ecological context, this project analysed the in-country environmental legislation landscape and...

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 20 years.  

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 accompanying your development projects so that they are both productive and ecological...

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 the Covid-19 crisis. The second issue of MacroDev Semestrial Panorama offers an analysis of the...

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 Research (ACEIR) based at the School of Economics, University of Nairobi, with support from Agence...

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 partnership that raised concerns about the preservation of this Ecosystem, sustaining more than...

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 water and sanitation in urban...

Based in Nairobi, the Eastern Africa Regional Office covers eleven countries: Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, ...

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 households and regions, not only in per capita income but also in assets and access to social...

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 poverty and reduce inequality.

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) dataset for 2015/16 combined with administrative data for the same period to construct various...

In Kenya, where 93% of the population did not have access to health coverage until recently, patients can now subscribe to health insurance and pay for their care at a large network of hospitals using a very simple device: their mobile phone. It’s all made possible by Kenyan start-up...