Monday, December 30, 2019
Universal Healthcare will be launched early 2020, incorporating lessons from four pilot projects.President Uhuru Kenyatta launched the Universal Health Coverage pilot in Kisumu on December 13, last year, after year-long preparations, making Kenya the...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
BLOG: UC Berkeley researchers found that cash transfers to rural Kenyans led to improvements in the local economy, according to an economic study. Researchers gave more than 10,500 households across 653 randomized villages in rural Kenya a one-time...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
OPINION: What happens to one of the world’s poorest places if you randomly pick more than 10,000 poor families out of an eligible pool and give them $1,000 each, no strings attached? It sounds like a plan some mad scientist might hatch, but no...
Monday, November 25, 2019
The government plans to replace 15,000 cash transfer beneficiaries who have left Inua Jamii programme through natural attrition. Social Protection Principal Secretary Nelson Marwa said an audit had shown that 13,000 beneficiaries, most of them...
Monday, November 25, 2019
BLOG: For about a decade now, the charity GiveDirectly has been distributing cash straight to poor residents in sub-Saharan Africa, starting in Kenya and expanding later to Uganda, Malawi, Rwanda, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the...
Monday, November 18, 2019
Kenya has released 8.74 billion shillings (87.4 million U.S. dollars) for payment to beneficiaries including elderly, orphans and people with disability who enrolled in the cash transfer programs. Nelson Marwa, principal secretary for social protection...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
A meeting is currently going on (November 12 to 13) among over 25 experts from the ministries of economic planning, finance, social development, health, youth and gender in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. The objective of the meeting is to discuss...
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Monday, October 14, 2019
The government intends to dedicate at least 1 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from a low of 0.4 percent to the social protection sector. The Labour and Social Protection Cabinet Secretary (CS), Ukur Yatani...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
The BOMA Project is under the Feed the Future Kenya Livestock Market Systems Activity. The Activity, which is implemented by ACDI/VOCA in consortium with Mercy Corps, The BOMA Project, and Smart Regional Consultants, is part of the Feed the...
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
BLOG: I grew up in Kiserian in Kajiado County, Kenya, an arid and marginalized environment where malnutrition and poverty were prevalent. I have seen how persistently women and children are the hardest hit by changing environmental conditions and limited...