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
Interlocking technologyApril 14, 2022As Kenya’s population grows, the Government and other stakeholders have emphasised on efficiency and speed in putting up affordable houses to fulfill the constitutional stipulation of the right to shelter. Owing to the appropriateness of […]
Manufacturing
Apparel manufacturingApril 1, 2022Kenya has the opportunity to establish a strong domestic and international footprint in textile and apparel manufacturing through the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which opened up the US market for finished textile products. This would be […]
Towards Food Security
Embryo transfer technology boon to livestock farmersMay 2, 2022Did you know that a cow can produce up to 10 calves in a year or that you do not need to wait for 15 years to get a pedigree cow? With the use of embryo transfer (ET), a relatively new technology in Kenya, you can get your pedigree calf in nine […]
Universal Health Coverage
Non-Communicable Diseases threaten achievement of Universal Health CoverageApril 28, 2022In the past couple of years, Kenya has seen a U-turn – from people suffering and losing life to communicable diseases to an increase in non-communicable diseases. Dubbed lifestyle diseases and stereotypically seen as ailments of the poor and the […]
Kick-Off
How brewers broke Gor, Leopards hegemonyMay 12, 2022One evening in 1980, a friend and I drove to the Kenya Breweries Tusker Village at Ruaraka to meet friends and gossip football over a beer as we watched the players training. The previous day, Breweries had beaten AFC Leopards in a tough league […]
Journey Of Women Trailblazers
Zipporah KittonyMay 7, 2022Zipporah Kittony is best remembered for her role as former head of Maendeleo ya Wanawake. The organisation seeks to unify, nurture and empower women socially, economically and politically so as enable them to deal with the unique challenges […]