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
Indoor environmental qualityApril 14, 2022Indoor quality arises because structures and the buildings have to take into account the health of the dwellers and avoid Sick Buildings, even as the key focus remains cost-cutting in mass affordable housing. Kenya’s urban population was by 2018 […]
Manufacturing
Oil and gasApril 1, 2022Kenya’s nascent oil and gas industry has become the new frontier that is attracting foreign investors as East Africa becomes the go-to location for oil and gas exploration. The international oil and gas investors are becoming increasingly fixed on […]
Towards Food Security
Why organic fertiliser from TZ is all the rage in KenyaMay 3, 2022As concern grows over the impact of synthetic fertilisers on soil composition and the environment, farmers are adopting organic options. Fertiliser reverses declining production In many parts of Kenya, including Nyanza, Due Due to overuse of […]
Universal Health Coverage
Other innovative measures that are improving health outcomes, and which can be scaled to achieve UHCApril 30, 2022Human milk bank Every second around the world, a baby dies. In a year, about one million babies out of 15 million born prematurely, die. In Kenya, according to WHO, an estimated 196,000 babies are born prematurely, while eight percent are of low […]
Kick-Off
Nakuru, Kenya’s home of footballMay 10, 2022Elijah Lidonde was Kenya’s best striker of the late1940s and across the ‘50s. A huge, broad-shouldered man with a powerful right foot, he was a permanent feature for Nakuru and the Kenya national team whose successes and failures in the Gossage […]
Journey Of Women Trailblazers
Sophie MukwanaMay 5, 2022Sophie Mukwana is the founder and director of the first private forensic lab in East Africa — Biotech Forensics Ltd. The company’s clients are drawn from Kenya and regionally from Djibouti, Rwanda, Burundi and as far as Côte d’Ivoire. Her firm […]