Youth, ICT And the Future of Work
- Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) EconomySeptember 4, 2024Micro enterprises are firms with annual turnovers of up to Sh50,000 and have not more than nine. The law caps the total assets and financial investments, or the registered capital, of a micro enterprise at Sh10 million in the manufacturing sector […]
Affordable Housing
Concrete waffles
April 14, 2022Under The hollow-core slabs are estimated to cut building costs by over a third, while reducing demand for sand and ballast, two items at the centre of great environmental degradation in areas near and far from major urban building hot spots in the […]
Manufacturing
Agro-processing: Tea sub-sector
July 1, 2022The legal framework for value addition in the Tea sector is provided for in The Crops (Tea Industry) Regulations, 2020 under the Crops Act 2013 Tea is a major cash crop in Kenya and the single leading foreign exchange earner for the country. The Tea […]
Towards Food Security
New technology from Holland aids breeding of fish
May 3, 2022YY-Technology uses natural capacities of Tilapia and environmentally friendly genetic selection techniques. A new fish production technology is set to change the fortunes of farmers experiencing low yields from breeding tilapia in ponds. Fishtec has […]
Universal Health Coverage
Resource pooling through health insurance schemes
April 30, 2022President Uhuru Kenyatta has made achieving Universal Health Coverage by 2022 a major part of his second term agenda. He indicated in his inauguration speech that this would be achieved by expanding coverage under NHIF. The World Bank estimates that […]
Kick-Off
1987: How Austin Oduor and Gor Mahia captured the imagination of a nation
May 11, 2022The grainy black and white pictures that appeared in the morning papers of Sunday, December 6, 1987, did only partial justice to the loftiest moment Kenya football ever savoured. Some depicted the sea of humanity that packed the stands of the 60,000 […]
Journey Of Women Trailblazers
Betty Gikonyo – Top cardiologist with a heart for needy children
May 4, 2022Hailed as one of the foremost medical practitioners of our time, Betty Gikonyo’s story is a picture of determination and courage. She teamed up with colleagues to perform the first open-heart surgery in Kenya, creating hope for thousands of […]