Kenya

Emerging bioeconomy opportunities in Africa: A case study of Croton megalocarpus Hutch in Kenya

SEI report / This report explores the value of using of Croton megalocarpus Hutch in Kenya as part of the expansion of the bioeconomy in sub-Saharan Africa.

Equitable Mobility for City Health and Wellbeing

Project / Understanding health and wellbeing impacts of mobility and co-designing mobility infrastructure improvements.

Causal pathways in the political economy of adaptation projects: Experience from mapping the solar electricity system in Turkana, Kenya

SEI working paper / This paper seeks to analyse the political economy of adaptation projects, using the solar electricity system in Turkana, Kenya as an example.

Opening the black pot: a service design-driven approach to understanding the use of cleaner cookstoves in peri-urban Kenya

Journal article / Researchers explore household behavior that influences the uptake of cleaner-burning cookstoves outside Nairobi, Kenya.

Governing the circular economy: Assessing the capacity to implement resource-oriented sanitation and waste management systems in low- and middle-income countries

Journal article / This paper identifies factors that facilitate or limit governance capacity for circularity in the form of resource recovery from urban organic waste streams.

Setting the stage for the circular economy: Waste resource recovery opportunities in Naivasha, Kenya

SEI report / This inventory report is a first step towards creating scenarios and roadmaps for a circular economy based on organic waste resources in Naivasha.

Cooking oil factory that won’t allow locals to catch a breath

Media coverage / Nairobi residents experience health problems because of pollution. Read comment by Philip Osano, Director of SEI Africa, in the Nation.

Inclusive climate-resilient transport in Africa

Project / Meeting the mobility needs of disadvantaged groups in a changing climate.

Ministers from across Africa come together to discuss the economics of biodiversity

Press release / An online event brings together experts and Ministers from Kenya, Rwanda, and the UK to inform an upcoming independent global review on biodiversity.