Listen Background Kenya has the opportunity to establish a strong domestic and international footprint in textile and apparel manufacturing through the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which opened up the US market for finished textile products. This would be a firm foundation for propelling Kenya into middle income status and creating gainful employment for […]
Listen Background The Cotton, Textile and Apparel (CTA) industry is remains largely labor-intensive and employs both semi-skilled and un-skilled workers and hence a key contributor to rural livelihoods. Specifically, about 200,000 households and an estimated 40,000 farmers rely on proceeds from cotton growing. The value chain includes cotton production, ginning, spinning, and weaving, apparel production […]
Listen State Department for Industrialisation: Policies and Legal and Regulatory Framework, Special Economic Zones Act 2015 Review of the Special Economic Zones Policy Amendment of the Special Economic Zones Act No.16 of 2015 Review of the Sessional Paper No. 9 of 2012 on National Industrialization Policy (NIP) Development of the National Manufacturing Policy and Strategy […]
Listen Background The Ministry of Industrialisation Trade and Enterprise Development prepared and approved Kenya’s first ever comprehensive industrialisation road map, which identified the following priority areas under the Third Medium Term Plan (MTP III): Critical sectors with scale such as Tea, Cut Flowers, Coffee and Horticulture Leveraging of natural advantages to create competitive sectors that […]
Listen Development of constituency industrial development centres The main activity under this sector was the construction and equipping of Constituency Industrial Development Centres (CIDCs) in the 210 constituencies to provide worksites and tools for the youth to pursue gainful employment. A total of 188 constituencies out of the 210 identified land for the construction of […]
Listen The local steel industry remains heavily dependent on imported raw materials, as no local sources have been developed to date making the manufacture of steel locally quite expensive. Reducing this high import bill is possible if high quality steel can be produced more cheaply locally. The government’s strategies to promote the sector include readiness […]
Listen Aquaculture production in Kenya has grown steadily in recent years to more than 18,000 tonnes in 2019 and plays an increasingly important role in national fish supply. Kenya is ranked the fourth in aquaculture in Africa and endowed with a vast network of aquatic resources comprising freshwater lakes and rivers, and an extensive ocean […]
Listen Around 14 per cent of produce worldwide is lost after harvest on farms and at the transport, storage, processing and wholesale stages, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This amounts to more than US$ 400 billion a year. FAO estimates that over 40 percent of food in Sub-Saharan Africa perishes before it […]
Listen Once again, athletics provided all of Team Kenya’s medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as other disciplines returned home empty-handed. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games took place in Japan amid a crippling COVID-19 pandemic, occasioning a year’s delay in the Games. Instead, the Games took place from July 23 to August 8, […]
Listen Projects under the five-year MTP III are clustered under four main pillars, hence the term Big 4. These are Manufacturing, Food Security and Nutrition, Universal Health Coverage – Affordable Healthcare for All – and Affordable Housing for both low and middle income earners. Manufacturing Ports, Roads and Rails The LAPSSET Corridor Programme East Africa’s […]