Listen This is the first in a four-book mini-series capturing key interventions by the government in manufacturing; from cement to oil and gas and mining and steel sectors.
Introduction for “Manufacturing”
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Introduction for “Youth and ICT”
Listen The virtual workplace is opening up creating a new landscape for workers and would-be jobseekers. It is no longer necessary to live near or close to your employers, as you can work from anywhere thanks to the robust ICT infrastructure that has enhanced connectivity, driving the country towards a vibrant digital economy as explored […]
Lorem Ipsum
Listen What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, […]
Education – CBC Implementation Status
Listen The Government introduced the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) to replace the 8-4-4 system of education following the results of a needs assessment carried out countrywide by a team of experts. The assessment indicated that the 8-4-4 system had become unpopular, because it was examination oriented at the expense of other education needs. The resounding […]
Building Sustainable Homes
Listen The key to ending the shortage of housing in Kenya depends, in large measure on improving access to affordable housing materials. A vast number of people find themselves priced out of Kenya’s housing mortgage market, and are forced to pay exorbitant amounts in rent to private landlords to have a roof over their heads. […]
Heavy industries
Listen This is the first in a four-book mini-series by the Kenya Yearbook Editorial Board (KYEB), capturing key interventi ons by the National Government in Manufacturing, which is the first Pillar of the Big 4 Agenda and the Third Medium-Term Plan (MTP III). The other three Pillars of the Big 4 Agenda are Aff ordable […]
Apparels and leather
Listen This is the second in a four-book mini-series by the Kenya Yearbook Editorial Board (KYEB), capturing key interventi ons by the Nati onal Government in Manufacturing, which is the first Pillar of the Big 4 Agenda and the Third Medium-Term Plan (MTP III). The other three Pillars of the Big 4 Agenda are Affordable […]
The Strategies, The Know How, The Farmers
Listen Although less than eight percent of land in Kenya is under cultivation, agriculture remains the country’s most important economic activity. Only about 20 percent of Kenya’s land is suitable for farming, of which just 12 percent is classified as high potential (adequate rainfall) agricultural land and eight percent as having medium potential. The rest […]
Road To Universal Health Coverage
Listen If we continue to behave normally, this disease will treat us abnormally. Behaving normal under these circumstances is akin to having a death wish” Those were my words on 22nd March 2020, while giving my regular national update on the COVID-19 pandemic. We are living in extraordinary times. The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) […]
Kick-Off
Listen Football is Kenya’s national pastime. There is a club, formal or informal, in virtually every village or slum in the country. This book is the story of football in Kenya. It traces its development from its origins in the 1920s to the present. The game was introduced in Kenya by the British colonialists who […]