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Address: 121 King St, Dameitta, EgyptWomen all over Africa, especially in the rural and peri-urban areas still rely heavily on charcoal energy. This has necessitated the need to have cook stoves that produce less smoke and consume less wood fuel. A recent survey (Sector mapping and market assessment of the improved cookstoves sector in Kenya) that was conducted by the
Water hyacinth despite being a menace has over the past few years proven to be a useful resource. Hyancinth has been used to make furniture, baskets, produce energy in the form of biogas and briquettes and act as organic fertilizer. The sea weed whose origin is South America found its way into Kenya in the
Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) is one of the partners for the Billion Dollar Business Alliance for Rainwater Harvesting – Kenya Chapter that inked a Memorandum of Understanding on 11 April 2017 in Nairobi, under the leadership of the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Mr Eugune Wamalwa and Dr. Alice Kaudia,
The Mutunguru Hydropower Project began as a community initiative in 2004. In 2009, the project received support from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) who donated a 26 kilowatt turbine together with a team of experts for the installation. The community on their end contributed some money and labour to build the intake, a
Peter Chege, the founder and CEO of Hydroponics Africa is one proud entrepreneur. Having recently sealed an order to supply 2 tonnes of herbs to a client in Dubai every month. The herbs which range from basil, rosemary, thyme, mint, oregano among others will be grown through the vertical and horizontal vegetable systems. This order has
A quick scan through the budget statement 2017-2018, one thing stands out for me, as a policy analyst with special interest in the climate change agenda, climate change was missing out in the statement by the CS National Treasury. The national budget is the main policy document for the country and through the budget the
The use of plastics dates back to the 1950s with the first plastic used for wrapping sandwiches introduced, followed by department stores in the 70s and supermarket chains in the 80s. Plastic is the largest source of ocean litter. Apparently, it takes 100s of years to degrade plastic bags, even with this in mind, many
There is an old saying “when you empower a woman you empower the society”. Gender equality has been a global conversation that has been part of the development agenda and was one of the goals under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG 3) on gender equality and the empowerment of women. For a country to claim that there
In the last decade, Kenya has witnessed a strong culture of innovation building in Kenya. A number of start ups have been successfully incubated but require upscaling. Commercialization of climate-tech companies is needed in order to demonstrate the potential and viability of green economic growth. Kenya Climate Ventures (KCV) was established in 2016 as an
