An Overview of Women Enterprise Fund in Kenya

Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) is a Semi-Autonomous Government Agency in the Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs established in August 2007 to provide accessible and affordable credit to support women start and/or expand business for wealth and employment creation (WEF, 2007). The role of entrepreneurship and an entrepreneurial culture in economic and social […]

Youth Enterprise Development Fund

Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF) is a state corporation under the ministry of public service and one of the vision 2030’s flagship projects under the social pillar. It was established in 2007 mainly to address challenges faced by youth unemployment with its main aim as turning youth into job creators. This article outlines the mandates, […]

Youth Entrepreneurship Program for Self-reliance

Executive Summary: The national youth policy, “visualizes a society where youth have an equal opportunity as other citizens to realize their fullest potential, productively participating in economic, social, political, cultural and religious life without fear or favour.” Despite this visualization, youth in Kenya continue to face myriad of challenges including but not limited to lack […]

Basic Entrepreneurship Training Course Outline

By Anthony M. Wanjohi: This course will help you to develop your entrepreneurial skills and start a business that could give you a livelihood that can support you and your family. Your business will contribute to the economic activity in your community and you may even go on to employ others. This would be a […]

Poverty Alleviation through Good Governance

By Anthony M. Wanjohi: Good Governance is a crosscutting critical facilitating strategy in the process of poverty reduction especially in developing countries. The issue of building the essential capacities of governance and public administration is more prominent in poverty reduction process. There are however some emerging issues in governance and public administration that require intergovernmental […]

Measures to Address Food Insecurity in Developing Countries

By Anthony M. Wanjohi: The right to adequate food, like any other human right, imposes some obligations on the State: The state has obligation to respect existing access to adequate food. This requires the state not to take any measures that result in preventing such access. It also requires the state to ensure that third […]

One Planet Summit 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya

Introduction: The third edition of One Planet Summit (COP23) was held in Nairobi on March, 14 2019. The Summit brought together global leaders, entrepreneurs, international organizations, and civil society to help accelerate and focus attention on climate investments in line with the Paris Agreement. The main themes of the summit focused on the following: promoting […]