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Policy Brief No. 13 of 2021-2022 on MSEs’ Business Environment in Kiambu County
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2021)The County Business Environment for MSEs (CBEM) framework was first developed by KIPPRA in 2019 to provide a tool for monitoring the process of improving business environment for growth and survival of MSEs. The four ... -
Policy Brief No. 13 of 2022-2023 on Strengthening Marine Fisheries through the Blue Economy Lens
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2022)Compared to inland fishing, which accounts for almost 80 per cent of the fisheries subsector, marine fishing is less developed. This is despite Kenya’s potential in industrial fishing based on her strategic location ... -
Policy Brief No. 13 of 2023-2024 on Empowering Creative Industries through Digital Readiness: The Role of Digital Infrastructure
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2023)Digital infrastructure is important in driving employment within the dynamic landscape of creative industries. Undoubtedly, the creative industry has experienced disruption by technology in unimaginable, inspiring, and ... -
Policy Brief No. 14 of 2006 on Policy Options for Financing Secondary Education in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2006)Secondary education is important in generating opportunities for social and economic development. Besides being a transitional level between primary and tertiary education, secondary schooling provides a base for acquiring ... -
Policy Brief No. 14 of 2019-2020 on MSE Business Environment in Kiambu County
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2019)The County Business Environment for MSEs (CBEM) framework has been developed to monitor key issues that require policy interventions in creating an enabling environment for the Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) sector in ... -
Policy Brief No. 14 of 2021-2022 on MSEs’ Business Environment in Kilifi County
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2021)The County Business Environment for MSEs (CBEM) framework was first developed by KIPPRA in 2019 to provide a tool for monitoring the process of improving business environment for growth and survival of MSEs. The four ... -
Policy Brief No. 14 of 2022-2023 on Fostering National Identity through Selected National Values for Economic Transformation in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2022)National identity is the feeling of belonging to a particular nation. It is an experience that pushes one to act in the best interest of the nation. National identity can be built through shared values. Kenya is cognizant ... -
Policy Brief No. 14 of 2023-2024 on Promoting Healthcare Service Delivery in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2023)The Constitution of Kenya guarantees all citizens the right to quality healthcare.1 The government has made efforts to expand coverage of health services after devolution and to cushion the poor and other vulnerable groups ... -
Policy Brief No. 15 of 2006 on Attractig Foreign Direct Investment into Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2006)Kenya has witnessed a decline in net flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the last two decades. A significant decline occured in the 1990s when the economy was going through various policy and institutional ... -
Policy Brief No. 15 of 2007 on Enhancing Investment Performance for Sustained Economic Growth in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2007)The Kenya Vision 2030 aims at achieving a high and non-inflationary real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 10 per cent by 2012, and sustaining it thereafter. To achieve this growth, Kenya needs to increase public ... -
Policy Brief No. 15 of 2019-2020 on MSE Business Environment in Kilifi County
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2019)The County Business Environment for MSEs (CBEM) framework has been developed to monitor key issues that require policy interventions in creating an enabling environment for the Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) sector in ... -
Policy Brief No. 15 of 2021-2022 on Constraints along the Cotton Textile and Apparel Value Chain in Kenya
(Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2021)The cotton-textile and apparel industry is recognized as one of the industries with potential to absorb skilled, semi-skilled, and non-skilled workers within its chain of production. In 1986, the cotton textile and apparel ... -
Policy Brief No. 15 of 2021-2022 on MSEs’ Business Environment in Kirinyaga County
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2021)The County Business Environment for MSEs (CBEM) framework was first developed by KIPPRA in 2019 to provide a tool for monitoring the process of improving business environment for growth and survival of MSEs. The four ... -
Policy Brief No. 15 of 2022-2023 on Embracing Plastic Circularity as an Alternative Policy to the Ban on Single use of Plastics
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2022)Plastic products are by nature universal, light, cheap, and prone to indiscriminate disposal after use. The single use of plastics and improper disposal mechanisms lead to increased plastics pollution, which is a ... -
Policy Brief No. 15 of 2023-2024 on Leveraging Role of Non-Governmental Organizations to Spur Development in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2023)The ASALs are characterized by long droughts, famine, lack of water and pasture, low levels of education, poor transport and communication infrastructure and inadequate governance from the National government. The ... -
Policy Brief No. 16 of /2021-2022 on MSEs’ Business Environment in Kisii County
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2021)The County Business Environment for MSEs (CBEM) framework was first developed by KIPPRA in 2019 to provide a tool for monitoring the process of improving business environment for growth and survival of MSEs. The four ... -
Policy Brief No. 16 of 2006 on Strengthening the Regulatory Framework for Private Healthcare Providers in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2006)Private healthcare provision has grown from a few providers at independence to about 2,640 by 2004.This growth can be traced in two periods. The first was the 1970s when the government allowed civil servants to engage in ... -
Policy Brief No. 16 of 2019-2020 on MSE Business Environment in Kirinyaga County
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2019)The County Business Environment for MSEs (CBEM) framework has been developed to monitor key issues that require policy interventions in creating an enabling environment for the Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) sector in ... -
Policy Brief No. 16 of 2021-2022 on Employment Creation Opportunities for Youths in the Fisheries Sector Value Chain
(Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2021)The Kenya Vision 2030 recognizes fish farming and aquaculture as a source of food security, poverty reduction, and employment creation. The various Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) economic surveys show that there ... -
Policy Brief No. 16 of 2022/2023 on Training as a Catalyst to Develop a Local Skills Base for Kenya’s Oil and Gas Upstream Sector
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2022)The discovery of oil in Northern Kenya in 2012 was a monumental moment for the country. It revitalized hope to economically spur growth by Kenya potentially becoming an oil producer in the future. Seven years later, ...