Youth, ICT And the Future of Work
Introduction to ICT, youth and the future of workJune 4, 2022The government’s development agenda for the next three years is built on the four pillars of Food Security, Manufacturing, Affordable Housing, and Universal Health Coverage. Together, these make up the Big 4 Agenda of the Kenya Vision 2030. The […]
Affordable Housing
Concrete wafflesApril 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: Coffee sub-sectorJuly 1, 2022Despite coffee being one of Kenya’s largest exports since its introduction in the country over a century ago the sector has been undergoing a slump since 2020. The 2021 Economic Survey shows that the sector dipped by about 18 per cent on lower crop […]
Towards Food Security
Farmers embrace new way of using fertiliser on their landMay 3, 2022Smallholder farmers in the Rift Valley and Western Kenya have seen their yields grow by up to 60 percent thanks to precision farming techniques. Dubbed precision farming, or micro-dosing, the process involves the application of small, affordable […]
Universal Health Coverage
UHC piloting in four counties: Results, experiences, achievements and Afya cardsApril 30, 2022Nyeri County It registered 716,947 people under the Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the government initiative aimed at providing improved and cost-effective healthcare. Through a concerted and collaborative approach, the county has ensured that […]
Kick-Off
Bobby Ogolla, the six-million-dollar manMay 12, 2022Early in the 1970s, Bobby Ogolla chose a career which is religion to millions of people: Football. In the middle of the 1980s, he was mature enough to know that at a high point, a player can be transformed into a people’s savior, the saint to whom […]
Journey Of Women Trailblazers
Pamela JelimoMay 5, 2022Pamela Jelimo stormed into athletics history when she won a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing at the age of 18 years, making her the youngest Kenyan woman and one of the youngest Kenyans to win an Olympic gold medal. In a blaze of success […]