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91 (2015) [ 7 ] Water supply and sanitation in Kenya is characterised by low levels of access to water and sanitation, in particular in urban slums and in rural areas, as well as poor service quality in the form of intermittent water supply. [ 8 ] Seasonal and regional water scarcity in Kenya exacerbates the difficulty to improve water supply.
Water supply and sanitation in Nairobi is characterised by achievements and challenges. Among the achievements is the expansion of infrastructure to keep pace with population growth, in particular through the construction of the Thika Dam and associated water treatment plant and pipelines during the 1990s; the transformation of the municipal water department into an autonomous utility in 2003 ...
Financing. Out of the $4.7 billion of investments in water supply and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa, 70% is financed internally and only 30% is financed externally (2001-2005 average). Most of the internal financing is household self-finance ($2.1bn), which is primarily for on-site sanitation such as pit latrines.
Rights. The human right to water and sanitation (HRWS) is a principle stating that clean drinking water and sanitation are a universal human right because of their high importance in sustaining every person's life. [1] It was recognized as a human right by the United Nations General Assembly on 28 July 2010. [2]
The Kenya Finance Bill protests, widely known by #RejectFinanceBill2024, or Gen Z protests, were a series of decentralized mass protests in Kenya against tax increases proposed by the Government of Kenya in the Finance Bill 2024. [11] Following the storming of the Kenyan Parliament, president William Ruto reportedly rejected the Bill on 28 June ...
Website. www.turkana.go.ke. Turkana County is a county in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya. It is Kenya's largest county by land area of 77,597.8km 2 followed by Marsabit County with an area of 66,923.1km 2. It is bordered by the countries of Uganda to the west; South Sudan and Ethiopia, including the disputed Ilemi Triangle, to the ...
M-Kopa (M for mobile, kopa is Swahili for borrow, stylized as M-KOPA) [1] is an African connected asset financing platform that provides underbanked customers in Africa to essential products including smartphones, electric motorbikes & digital financial services. [2][3] M-Kopa was launched commercially in 2012 and is headquartered in Nairobi.
Kotani Pay plans to expand to additional markets in Africa, and introduce a range of services on acquiring Fuhlstack, a Nigerian web3 startup.