Low-carbon competitiveness in Kenya
Karen Ellis, Alberto Lemma, Stephen Mutimba, Rachel Wanyoike
A report on low-carbon competitiveness in Kenya
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Labour mobility in East Africa: an analysis of the East African Community's common market and the free movement of workers
Development Policy Review Vol. 31, iss. 2This article looks at the East African Community's Common Market Protocol of July 2010 and argues that there are contradictions and inconsistencies in its implementation. For the full table of contents, or to subscribe or submit an article visit http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/dpr -
The affordability of social protection in the light of international spending commitments
Development Policy Review Vol. 31, iss. 4In this article, Jessica Hagen Zanker and Anna McCord analyse social protection affordability by comparing target spending levels with actual government expenditure in five African countries. They find that meeting any of the sectoral targets in full would require either sectoral trade-offs, or significant increases in donor or government expenditure. -
Cash transfers: good governance and accountability in short supply
Cash transfers are very popular way of improving social protection, with a proven track record of reducing poverty at household level and increasing access to basic services around the world. But despite generally positive results, there's been little research done on how they affect household and community dynamics, or on their impacts on marginalised groups such as women, youth, the elderly and people with disabilities. -
Solar panels, Kenya
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Source: FlickrLow carbon competitiveness - Kenya
As part of ODI's Private Sector and Markets programme's low carbon competitiveness project, the Kenya workshop aimsto validate the research findings and stimulate discussion on the implementation of a low carbon development pathway in a forum that invites multi-stakeholder views and critical comments to facilitate feasible, meaningful and practical outputs, which can effectively inform policy and decision makers and help identify and prioritise key policy issues and pragmatic policy actions for green growth.
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Source: Christian AidImproving impact - do accountability mechanisms deliver results?
How does accountability improve results? The author and commissioning agencies of a new report, Improving Impact: do accountability mechanisms deliver results?, will present the findings from their research in Myanmar and Kenya at this ALNAP-hosted event. Join us to discuss the findings of this report which methodically investigates the effects of accountability mechanisms on the quality and results of aid.
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Living in the shadows: who is the guardian of urban refugee rights?
This World Refugee Day the global commitment to addressing the rights of urban refugees is in serious doubt.
Following a spate of grenade attacks late last year in Nairobi, and Somali militant attacks in the north of the country, the Kenyan Government retaliated with attempts to enforce the encampment of urban refugees. Collectively branded as a threat to national security, the 55,000 refugees living in Nairobi have had their lives and livelihoods made illegal. -
Sanctuary in the city? Reframing responses to protracted urban displacement
This policy brief details how the humanitarian sector needs to embrace an approach to protracted urban displacement that tackles both its political and programmatic challenges. -
Cash transfer as part of a social security program in Northeastern Kenya
Cash transfer as part of a social security program in Northeastern Kenya.
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Source: FlickrThe governance of cash transfers: lessons and ways forward
The focus of the roundtable session was on how citizen involvement in cash transfer programme governance and accountability can help support broader state-citizen relations.
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Women waiting to receive their cash transfer
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Source: FlickrHolding cash transfers to account
Do cash transfer programmes effectively address issues of social exclusion? These and other questions will be explored in an ODI event which will present findings from Transforming Cash Transfers, a DFID-funded study that investigates beneficiary and community perspectives on unconditional cash transfer programmes in five countries - Kenya, Mozambique, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (both Gaza and West Bank), Uganda and Yemen.