Stories from the work.

How Green at Mind Is Turning Metal Waste into Clean Cooking in Turkana

Every stove Green at Mind makes starts as five kilograms of metal waste. Families use it with briquettes the team makes from farm waste, and together they cut fuel use by 40% compared with ordinary cooking methods.

Mogotio Dairy Cooperative Switches to Solar With DREEM Support

Every morning, collectors on motorbikes set out across the villages around Mogotio, on the edge of Baringo County near the Nakuru border, picking up cans of fresh milk from dairy farmers.

DREEM Equips Dairy Farmers with Skills for a More Climate-Resilient Value Chain

For one week, 60 dairy farmers and cooperative representatives from 11 counties gathered at the Dairy Training Institute (DTI) in Naivasha to strengthen the knowledge and practical skills needed to build more productive and resilient dairy enterprises.

Growing Against the Odds, Inside Machakos’ Green Fields

The first thing you notice as you drive into Mwala Sub-County is the heat. The sun beats down on the brown, dusty earth, a familiar landscape in this semi-arid part of Machakos where rainfall is scarce and water is precious.

KCIC Supports Nakuru County to Strengthen Waste Management Policy for a Circular Economy

The Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC), through its Sustainable Waste Innovation for a Future in Transition (SWIFT) programme, is supporting Nakuru County to improve its waste management policy and legislative framework as part of broader efforts to accelerate Kenya's transition to a circular economy.

Sheria ya Vijana Bootcamp Equips Youth-Led Organizations to Build Climate-Smart, Investment-Ready Enterprises

Forty youth-led organizations from Nairobi and Kwale Counties have completed a five-day Sheria ya Vijana Bootcamp, strengthening their capacity to transform innovative green and digital ideas into sustainable, investment-ready enterprises

KCIC Launches Founders Collective to Build a Lifelong Community for Africas Climate Entrepreneurs

The Kenya Climate Innovation Center has launched the Founders Collective, a lifelong platform that will keep climate entrepreneurs connected to capital, markets, mentorship and strategic partnerships long after they graduate from entrepreneurship support programmes.

KCIC Concludes AgriBiz Programme, Marking a New Chapter for Enterprise Support Across Kenya

Five years after launching the AgriBiz Programme, the Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) today officially concluded the initiative during a close-out ceremony, celebrating a legacy that will live on through strengthened county institutions, empowered entrepreneurs and enduring enterprise support systems.

Women Accelerating Kenya's E-Mobility Future

For three days, women entrepreneurs, innovators, and professionals came together to reflect on six months of learning, colaboration, and growth that had already been building the ski ls, networks, and confidence needed to thrive in Kenya's fast-growing electric mobility sector

Building Sustainable Climate Smart Businesses Through Enterprise Support

The first thing a visitor notices at Green Sevenrex Ventures is not the size of the farm, but the rhythm of activity. Workers call instructions to one another as they move between stations, their hands blackened by the raw materials fed into machines that compress them into briquettes. Nearby, others carefully carry the freshly made briquettes to drying racks, stacking them in neat rows to cure before they are ready for market.

KCIC Begins AgriBiz Handover Process in Uasin Gishu County

Kenya Climate Innovation Center has officially begun the handover process for the AgriBiz Programme, with the first event held in Uasin Gishu County on Monday, July 13, 2026.

Solarizing Key Agricultural Value Chains in East Africa A Game-Changing Discovery: The Solar Irrigation Potential in Laikipia

George Gichuki was trapped in a costly cycle. As a horticulture farmer in Solio Village 5, Laikipia County, he faced a relentless reality: every few days, he would drive 16 kilometers to buy petrol for the pump that kept his 2.5-acre farm alive. The dry climate left him no choice but irrigation, yet the petrol-powered system was bleeding his profits.

Farmers turn to solar power to combat rising energy costs

Before dawn breaks in Mogotio, Baringo County, motorcycles set off along rough village roads to collect milk from hundreds of farmers. This has been the routine at Mogotio Farmers Cooperative Society Ltd for years, where 440 members pool between 6,500 and 8,000 litres of milk daily, despite poor roads and rising fuel costs. The cooperative sells fresh milk and processes yoghurt and sour milk.

Turning Agricultural Waste into Sustainable Fertilizer

Farmers in Kenya’s Great Rift and Western regions continue to face declining soil fertility caused by long-term land degradation, overuse of chemical fertilizers, and limited access to affordable, sustainable soil improvement solutions. These challenges have resulted in reduced crop productivity and increased production costs for smallholder farmers who depend heavily on agriculture for their livelihoods.

Building a Circular Economy for Sustainable Industrial Growth in Kenya

At the Sustainable Manufacturing Week Conference held at the Sarit Centre in Nairobi, conversations moved beyond theory and policy statements into something more tangible: how circular economy solutions are already reshaping manufacturing, waste management, and industrial competitiveness in Kenya.

Scaling Clean Cooking Solutions for Communities in Rwanda

For years, many households across Rwanda have relied on traditional cooking methods that contribute to deforestation, indoor air pollution, and rising household fuel costs. For vulnerable communities, especially those living in refugee camps and low-income areas, access to clean, affordable, and sustainable cooking solutions remains a major challenge.

From 300kg to 7 Tonnes: How Zaji Power Scaled Its Briquette Production

In many Kenyan households and small businesses, charcoal remains the primary source of cooking fuel. However, its heavy reliance on trees continues to accelerate deforestation and environmental degradation. For low-income families, the rising cost of charcoal also makes it an unsustainable option.

Turning Faecal Waste into Clean Energy Solutions in Nakuru

When Nawasscoal Company Limited joined the GreenBiz Programme Cohort 3 accelerator in 2023, they already had a bold vision. As a subsidiary of Nakuru Water and Sanitation Services Company Limited (NAWASSCO), the enterprise operates in the circular economy and waste management sector, turning faecal sludge into clean, sustainable fuel.

Turning Agricultural Waste into Clean Cooking Solutions in Nakuru

When George Wambugu started Rafiki Ecosolutions Ltd in 2022, he wasn't trying to save the world. He was just trying to solve a problem right in his own neighborhood in Nakuru's Lanet area. Households and businesses in the area were struggling with expensive, unhealthy, and unsustainable cooking fuels. His solution was charcoal briquettes made from agricultural waste and the famous Mathenge tree, an invasive weed that chokes local farmland.

Building Climate Resilience Through Beekeeping: The Yatta Beekeepers Story

In the dry and climate-vulnerable landscapes of Eastern Kenya, where prolonged droughts and erratic rainfall continue to threaten livelihoods, Yatta Beekeepers is demonstrating how locally led innovation can transform climate challenges into economic opportunity and environmental restoration.

Turning Kenya’s Animal Feed Shortage into a Women-Led Agribusiness Opportunity

Across Kenya, livestock farmers are navigating a growing strain. Animal feed production currently meets only about 40% of demand, leaving a 60% deficit equivalent to roughly 33 million tonnes of dry matter.

Scaling Clean Transport: Carbon Zero’s Mobility Journey

In 2021, Patrick Kimathi and David Ngaracu founded Carbon Zero Mobility with a clear vision: to transform Kenya’s transport sector through clean, efficient mobility solutions. Like many early-stage businesses, the journey began in uncertainty, shaped by product refinement, limited resources, and the challenge of entering a competitive market.

How Innovation is Restoring Land and Livelihoods

Imagine soil so dry and cracked that nothing seems to grow. Now imagine a planter that not only helps trees thrive in that soil but actively traps carbon while doing it. That is exactly what Soil Doctors Limited, based in Karai Center, Lanet in Nakuru, has achieved with its Carbon Sink Planters. These biodegradable planters are made from biochar blended with olivine sand and other rock minerals.

Expanding Access to Agri-Solar Solutions for Farmers in Kitui

For many farmers across Kenya’s dryland regions, the challenge is no longer just about farming but accessing reliable, affordable energy that can power irrigation, reduce post-harvest losses, and improve productivity.

Scaling Beekeeping in Baringo County through the GreenBiz Program

"We used to warm honey in a sufuria over boiling water," Chesang recalls, running his hand over a stainless steel honey warmer. "Now we have this." The contrast between the old and their transformation is apparent. It is precisely the kind of change the GreenBiz programme set out to prove was possible.

Inside the AYuTe Africa Challenge Kenya 2026 Finals

Innovation in agriculture is no longer a distant ambition. It is happening now, driven by young Kenyan entrepreneurs building solutions that are transforming how farmers produce, access markets, and sustain livelihoods.

Taking the Lab to the Farm: From Waiting Weeks to Minutes in Soil Testing for Farmers in Kenya

For many farmers in Kenya, soil testing has always meant sending samples away and waiting days or even weeks for results. By the time the feedback comes back, the planting decisions have already been made.

KCIC GreenBiz Programme Closes After Five-Year Implementation Period

The Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) announces the formal closure of the GreenBiz Programme, a five-year initiative implemented with financial support from DANIDA to strengthen climate technologies and related innovative business models in Kenya.

Firm uses biomass waste to produce clean, affordable fuel

Whatever remains of the burnt out pellets or briquettes is converted into organic fertiliser and packaged for sale.

Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs Take the Stage at In-Country YouthADAPT Demo Days to Drive Climate Innovation

Lagos, Nigeria – 13 October 2025 – The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and Kenya Climate Innovation Center(KCIC) today launched the In-Country YouthADAPT Demo Day Events under the African Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP). The events mark a significant milestone in empowering Africa’s next generation of climate entrepreneurs, providing them with investment, mentorship, and pathways to scale up their innovative adaptation solutions.

Start-up Produces CBC Aligned Educational Toys

An idea conceived in the hostels of Moi University is now shaping how children across Kenya engage with learning. Plotus Innovation Company has grown into a promising player in Kenya’s emerging EdTech and manufacturing space, offering curriculum-aligned educational toys designed for the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).

This business is transforming fish skin into leather products

Primarily from Nile perch, it is gathered from lakeside towns such as Obunga and Mbita along Lake Victoria, from filleting traders. Once collected, the skins undergo salting for preservation. This helps prevent decay and prepares the hides for tanning

From waste to energy: Water company is turning faecal sludge into clean energy

One of the biggest hurdles the business faced was overcoming the public stigma attached to faecal-based briquettes. Initial uptake was slow, as many consumers were unfamiliar with the product and uneasy about its origins

This eco-conscious business is fueling Thika’s circular economy

The firm burns plastics in a controlled, oxygen-free environment, and out comes synthetic oil—cleaner, lower in sulfur, and less toxic than the furnace oils and industrial diesel that factories depend on.

How Kisumu entrepreneur is turning agricultural waste into clean fuel

At Olex Techno, non-carbonised briquettes are compressed from raw agricultural residues such as rice husks, sugar cane bagasse and sawdust

How ‘Uber’ for trash keeps Mombasa clean

UN report that predicted more plastic than fish in the oceans by 2050 jolted dentist into action

Dandora landfill inspired idea to produce pencils from paper

Every time he would visit the dandora dumpsite while working in the garbage collection industry several years ago, Anthony Ndung’u would be perplexed at how much of the waste at the site consisted of paper, a product that could be reused or easily recycled.

DREEM Hub Hosts Semi-Annual Spoke Partners Meeting in Naivasha, Kenya

The Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) held a DREEM Hub spoke partners meeting in Naivasha from September 18th–19th. The forum offered space to review progress, plan ahead, and explore synergies between partner organizations.

Venture trades in waste, transforming it into organic fertiliser

On any given day, Richard and his team of about 70 men and women collect between 200 – 400 kilos of food waste from local markets such as cabbage stalks, rotting mangoes and discarded grain and convert it into nutrient-rich organic fertiliser.

Venture uses insects to lower the cost of animal feed and fertiliser

Going by research, the dressing is not only rich in nutrients, it can also hold more water in the soil, thus reducing the watering needs for farmers significantly

Recycler mints cash helping tackle plastics waste menace

With a circular model and growing market reach, Jil Industries proves that recycling can drive both profit and sustainability

KCIC Launches New Climate Tech Accelerator Program for 2025

We're excited to announce our expanded accelerator program focusing on breakthrough climate technologies. Applications are now open for innovative startups working on carbon capture, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture solutions.

Success Story: GreenTech Startup Raises $2M in Series A Funding

One of our incubated startups, EcoSolutions Kenya, successfully raised $2 million in Series A funding to scale their innovative water purification technology across East Africa.

Partnership with World Bank Expands Climate Finance Access

KCIC partners with the World Bank to provide enhanced climate finance opportunities for SMEs, offering up to $500K in funding for qualifying climate solutions.

Climate Innovation Summit 2025: Call for Speakers

Join us for the largest climate innovation gathering in East Africa. We're seeking thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators to share their insights on sustainable development.

New Research: Impact of Climate Innovation on Job Creation

Our latest research reveals that climate innovation initiatives have created over 2,500 green jobs in Kenya, with projections showing potential for 5,000 more by 2025.

Women in Climate Tech: Empowering Female Entrepreneurs

KCIC launches a dedicated program to support women-led climate startups, providing mentorship, funding, and market access opportunities specifically designed for female entrepreneurs.