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
State bets on versatile bamboo to meet affordable housing goalsApril 8, 2022Under the Big Four blueprint, the Government wants to provide at least 500,000 affordable housing units by 2022. It is beautiful and sustainable. It is an energy saver, has zero emissions and is environmentally friendly. Its potential in […]
Manufacturing
Agro-processing: Tea sub-sectorJuly 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
Israel’s irrigation methods transform Turkana CountyMay 3, 2022The perception of county as a vast wasteland hostile to crop farming is changing thanks to tried-and-tested drip irrigation used in Israel’s Negev desert. Mention Turkana County and what spring to mind are images of a vast barren land where the only […]
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
Ethnic clubs: What is in a name?May 11, 2022In 1969, without knowing that they were giving a cunning political animal ideas, bureaucrats at the Ministry of Cooperatives and Social Services announced that in the near future, football teams with tribal names would be excluded from FA of […]
Journey Of Women Trailblazers
Amina MohamedMay 7, 2022With close to three decades of experience as a diplomat under her belt, it is difficult to hear the name Amina Mohamed and not have “Foreign Affairs” spring automatically to mind. Having most recently served as Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary […]