Browsing 3. KIPPRA Research Publications by Title
Now showing items 498-517 of 857
-
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, ... -
Policy Brief No. 16 of 2023-2024 on Empirical Review of Youth Employment Policies and their Impact in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2023)Although Kenya has had stable economic growth and a positive economic outlook, there is need for a more inclusive growth process that creates ample job opportunities for its youth. Despite the country’s relatively high ... -
Policy Brief No. 17 of 2006 on the Future of Monetary Policy Regime in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2006)Monetary policy is one of the key macroeconomic policy tools that are used to influence macroeconomic variables by regulating monetary aggregates and/or terms and availability of credit in the economy. Its implementation ... -
Policy Brief No. 17 of 2007 on Enhancing Private Sector Participation in the Provision of Primary and Secondary Education in Kenya
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2007)The growth of private education provision since the 1990s can be associated with various factors, including education policy reforms such as the introduction of cost sharing in 1988, curriculum reform from the 7-4-2-3 ... -
Policy Brief No. 17 of 2019-2020 on MSE Business Environment in Kisii County
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2020)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. 17 of 2021-2022 on MSEs’ Business Environment in Kisumu 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. 17 of 2021-2022 on Tapping the Dairy Industry’s Potential to Create Jobs for the Youth in Kenya
(Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2021)With the bulging unemployment of youth in Kenya, where about 85% are unemployed, the Kenya Vision 2030 recognizes the dairy industry as one of the fundamental industries in generating employment activities especially for ... -
Policy Brief No. 17 of 2022-2023 on External Public Debt Servicing
(The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2022)Prudent external public debt service management is integral in ensuring external debt service does not place an unbearable burden on the current and future generations. It is also pivotal in informing the optimal debt ...