- Africa Climate Summit 2023, September 4-6, 2023, Nairobi, Kenya
Co-sponsored by the Republic of Kenya and the African Union.
"Driving Green Growth and Climate Finance Solutions for Africa and the World."
- "Africa Climate Week," September 4-8, 2023, Nairobi, Kenya
Co-organized by the Government of the Republic of Kenya, the UN Climate Change, the global partners UN Development Programme, UN Environment Programme and the World Bank Group and the partners based in Africa.
- Africa Energy Forum 2023 (London)
Held on June 20-23, 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya
- The Africa Platform for Social Protection (Nairobi, Kenya)
"...a Pan African non-governmental organisation working in the five regions of the African Union...to create partnerships with Civil Society and other organizations to engage with the Governments and International Development Agencies (IDAs) to develop and implement innovative Social Protection strategies and programmes."
--See also: African Studies Centre, Leiden:
"Social Protection in Africa" (June 2012) Web Dossier (Leiden, The Netherlands)
- Africa Research Institute on Kenya (London UK)
- African Arguments on Kenya's Economy and Environment (London, UK)
- African Association of Agricultural Economists (Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya)
--See especially: AfJARE: African journal of agriculture and resource economics. (Online)
- African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) (Nairobi, Kenya)
- "The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) is an international inter-governmental policy research and training organization... The Centre"s activities focus on the implementation of Agenda 21 and related conventions on biological diversity, climate change and desertification."
--See especially: ACTS Books ; policy briefs ; working papers ; special issue papers
- African Conservation Centre (Nairobi, Kenya)
A clearinghouse website on news about conservation and the African NGO sector. The site includes publications on community-based conservation activities in East Africa, policy reports, conference news, statistical information, and workshop documents.
- African Development Bank Group on Kenya (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
- African Economic Research Consortium (Nairobi, Kenya)
- "The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), established in July 1988, is a public not-for-profit organization devoted to advanced policy research and training."
- Search for all publications on "Kenya" (Policypapers, working papers, executive summaries, research newsletters, etc.)
- African executive, The. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya: African Executive, 2005-
An online weekly magazine which offers selected current and recent "news analysis" and opinion on finance, banking, and investment in Africa. A Google search of the site yields articles from the archive, 2005 to the present.
- AFIDEP--African Institute for Development Policy (Nairobi, Kenya; Lilongwe, Malawi)
"...an international non-profit policy think tank whose mission is to translate and enable utilisation of research evidence in policy-making in the fields of Population Change and Sustainable Development, Health Systems Strengthening, Education and Skills Development (Transformative Education) and Strengthening Capacity for demand and use of research evidence in policy-making spaces in Africa."
--See especially:
AFIDEP publications
- African Medical Research Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya)
This site offers news and other information about AMREF programmes (including "Flying Doctor Service") -- with offices in 4 countries: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and South Africa. "AMREF is Africa's largest indigenous health charity, and for 44 years in partnership with local communities, governments and donors, has worked to research and alleviate Africa's health problems."
- African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions (via UNESCO, Nairobi, Kenya)
- African Population & Health Research Center, Inc. (Nairobi, Kenya)
This website includes downloadable publications--newsletter, research reports, working papers, etc. "The Center was established in 1995 as a Population Policy Research Fellowship program of the Population Council, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2001, it became an autonomous institution with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya."
--
APHRC Publications
- African successes: four public managers of Kenyan rural development. By David K. Leonard. -- Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press ; California Digital Library eScholarship program, 2003 (1991).
- 9th AfriCities Summit, May 17-21 May 2022, Kisumu, Kenya
"...held every three years in one of the five regions of Africa. We mobilize communities and local authorities in African countries, as well as financial institutions, civil society groups and development partners."
- AGRA: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
"Since 2006, we have worked with our partners, governments, non-governmental organizations, private sector businesses, and more; to deliver a set of proven solutions to smallholder farmers and indigenous African agricultural enterprises."
--See especially:
Africa Agriculture Status Reports, 2013--
- 4th Annual Aid & Development in Africa Summit, 26-27 February 2019, Nairobi, Kenya
--See also: Aid & International Development Forum News
- Architecture Kenya (Nairobi, Kenya)
"Architecture Kenya was founded in May 2010 with a mission to deliver the most comprehensive information related to architecture, urban design, research and sustainable design in Kenya to people around the world on a daily basis. It is an online source of information for a growing number of people interested in Kenyan architectural news, projects, products, events, jobs, interviews and competitions among others."
- ALIN: Arid Lands Information Network -- Eastern Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
- "ALIN--Eastern Africa is a network of Community Development Workers who are involved in drylands development...ALIN members are drawn from government departments, non-governmental organisations and community-based organisations."
The site includes a few newsletters and information about community center programs.
- An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being...in Kenya (2007) (See World Resources Institute below)
- Bioline Publications Abstracts and Document Service (Electronic Publishing Trust for Development, UK)
- Business Daily Africa. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya : The Nation Media Group, Ltd., 2007-
The electronic version of the current daily issue with business and economic news for Kenya and East Africa.
- Kenya Business Directories Online
- Census Reports of Kenya (See below)
- Central Bank of Kenya (Nairobi)
- Centre for Economic Governance--Resources (Nairobi, Kenya)
This site includes open access publications on the Kenyan economy and government. "...a civil society organization whose vision is a society where there is economic justice and equity for all...CEG priority program are public finance management, governance and devolution and social accountability."
- Centre for the Study of African Economies (Oxford, UK)
- Columbia University--The Earth Institute in Kenya (Nairobi, Kenya and New York, USA)
- Center for Sustainable Urban Development: Nairobi Regional Project
- The MDG Centre--East and Southern Africa (2014)
As of 2014, the Centre conducts research in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. "...In 2006, the Centre initially focused on policy support at the national level to selected pilot countries of the UN Millennium Project (Kenya, Ethiopia, Senegal and Ghana). With the successful completion of the UNMP in late 2006, the Centre broadened its scope of work to include advisory services and support to the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) and to scale up MDG-related interventions to district and national levels in East and Southern Africa."
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) on Kenya (Lusaka, Zambia)
- CORDIO--Coastal Oceans Research and Development – Indian Ocean (Mombasa, Kenya)
"...initiated in 1999 as a response to the El-Niño related mass bleaching and mortality of corals in the Indian Ocean in 1998. It is a non-profit research organization."
--See especially:
Outputs and Results (Publications)
- Danish Institute for International Studies, Department for Development Research. Formerly Centre for Development Studies. (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Demographic and Health Surveys: Kenya Indicators, Datasets, and Reports (2022 and earlier) (Calverton, Maryland)
--See also: National Coordinating Agency for Population & Development
- Digital Matatus: Collaborating Mapping for Public Transit Everywhere (Nairobi, Kenya)
"...the project captured transit data for Nairobi, developed mobile routing applications and designed a new transit map for the city. Digital Matatus continues to collect and update data on matatu routes in Nairobi and is beginning projects elsewhere."
--See especially:
October 2019 Update ;
Maps and data
- East African, The. (Online): Business -- Nairobi, Kenya: Nation Media Group, Ltd., 2005-
The "business section" of the current electronic version of a weekly newspaper covering news mostly for Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, sometimes for neighboring countries. Several weeks of reports are available on the web site.
- East African Community = Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki (Arusha, Tanzania)
- This is the official website of the regional intergovernmental organization (encompassing Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) which was (re)established in 1999 by treaty (see "Documents & Publications"). The site includes information about the EAC, current news, and related links.
- EACIR--East African Community Information Repository
- Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank -- Trade and Development Bank (Nairobi, Kenya)
Established in 1985, TDB since 2017
- EBAFOSA--Ecosystem Based Adaptation for Food Security Assembly (Nairobi, Kenya)
"EBAFOSA is the first inclusive pan-African policy framework and implementation platform, a solutions space that brings together key stakeholders and actors along the entire EBA driven agriculture value chain."
--See especially:
EBAFOSA Publications
- ELDIS Country Profile on Kenya (Electronic Development and Environment Information System, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
This service compiles and indexes links to online full texts (requiring Adobe Acrobat PDF), related web sites, and print publications in the IDS library on a variety of subjects pertaining to Kenya, especially in the fields of agricultural economics, trade, health, governance, and education.
- Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (Nairobi, Kenya)
"The commission gathers information on corruption occurring in Government and the public Sector from a variety of sources. These sources include members of the public, heads of government departments and agencies, officials working in both the public and private sectors and the media."
--See especially:
Legislation ;
Other downloads
- FEWSNET--Famine Early Warning System Network -- Kenya Center See USAID below
- Financial Sector Deepening Kenya (Financial Sector Deepening Trust, Nairobi, Kenya)
The site includes project reports, newsletters, financial access survey report, annual reports, etc."[FSD Kenya]...established in early 2005 to support the development of financial markets in Kenya as a means to stimulate wealth creation and reduce poverty."
--See especially:
FSD Kenya Publications
- Food and Agriculture Organization on Kenya (Rome, Italy)
- France. Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie: Kenya (Trésor Direction Générale, Paris)
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Kenya (Nairobi)
- Government of Kenya: The Ministries...and the Economy
- Government of Kenya--Home Page Ministry of Information, Communications, & Technology
- The Presidency
- Executive Office of the President--Cabinet Affairs
- Kenya Medical Research Institute (Nairobi, Kenya)
- Kenya Data Portal
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, The African Development Bank, in collaboration with other government agencies, provides free and open access to public information about government expenditures and other data.
- Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries
- Council of Governors
- Devolution (2020)
- East African Affairs, Commerce, and Tourism
- Energy and Petroleum
- Environment and Natural Resources
- Foreign Affairs and International Trade
- Health
- Education
- Industrialization and Entreprise Development
- Investment Authority
- Kenya Revenue Authority -- Publications
- Labour
- Lands and Physical Planning
- Mining
- National Bureau of Statistics (See below)
- National Council for Population & Development
- National Treasury
- Trade
- Transport and Infrastructure
- Water, Sanitation and Irrigation
- Kenya Forestry Research Institute (Nairobi, Kenya)
- The Green Belt Movement (Nairobi, Kenya)
- Human Rights Watch: A Question of Life or Death: Treatment Access for Children Living with HIV in Kenya (December 2008) (New York) 100 pages in PDF format
- IFRA Nairobi: Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (Nairobi, Kenya)
- International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (Nairobi, Kenya)
The site offers information about on-going research by this international organization in human, animal, plant, and environmental health; plus a list of publications. "[Founded in 1970]...ICIPE is a tropical organisation: tropical insect science for development."
- The International Monetary Fund: Kenya Country Info (Washington, DC)
Summaries, full length reports, and recent news.
Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring
Adobe Acrobat.
- International Planned Parenthood Federation on Africa (Nairobi, Kenya ; London, UK)
- Japan. Ministry of Foreign Affairs: TICAD VI--Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, Nairobi, Kenya, August 27-28, 2016
"TICAD was launched in 1993 to promote high-level policy dialogue between African leaders and development partners. Meetings are led by Japan and co-organized by the United Nations, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the African Union Commission (AUC)...The last five TICADs were held every five years in Japan. From 2016 onwards, TICAD will be held every three years, hosted alternately in Africa and Japan."
--See also:
TICAD VI (via Kenya Government, Nairobi) -and-
TICAD Home Page
- KARI--Kenya Agricultural Institute (Nairobi, Kenya)
"...a premier national institution bringing together research programmes in food crops, horticultural and industrial crops, livestock and range management, land and water management, and socio-economics."
See especially:
KARI Publications
- KEFRI--Kenya Forestry Research Institute (Nairobi, Kenya)
- "To conduct research and provide information and technologies for sustainable development of forestry and allied natural resources for socio-economic development."
- All KEFRI Publications
- KIPPRA: Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (Nairobi, Kenya)
- "KIPPRA's primary mission is to provide quality public policy advice to the government of Kenya and to the private sector by conducting objective research and analysis and through capacity building in order to contribute to the achievement of national development goals."
- Kenya Economic Report 2018-2023
- Other KIPPRA Publications
- KIPPRA Research Output: policy briefs, conference papers, working papers, etc.
- Kenya Investment Authority (Nairobi, Kenya)
A website with general information for the investor and economist.
- Kenya Medical Research Institute (Nairobi, Kenya)
- "[Since 1979] KEMRI is the Medical Research arm of the Government and provides advice to the Ministry on various aspects of healthcare and delivery. National diseases surveillance and rapid response capacity for major disease outbreaks (Cholera, Chikungunya Virus, H1N1 Flu, Yellow Fever, Rift Valley Fever, Ebola, Aflatoxicosis etc)."
- Knowledge Management (All publications)
- African journal of health
- Utafiti wa Afya (Research repository)
- Kenya National Human Rights Commission: The Right to Health: A Case Study of Kisumu County (Nairobi, Kenya)
82 pages in PDF format
- Kenya Wetlands Atlas (2012) (See UNEP below)
- Map Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya)
Access citizen maps of Kibera, Mathare, and Mukuru using OpenStreetMap. "Since 2009, when we launched our work by empowering youth residents of the Kibera community to create the first digital map of Kibera, Map Kibera Trust has continued efforts to transform a marginalized settlement which was previously a blank spot on the map into an increasingly visible and vibrant community...Map Kibera Trust has since replicated its model in Mathare and Mukuru slums of Nairobi."
- Nairobi Convention (UNEP Regional Seas Programme, Nairobi, Kenya)
"[First signed in 1985, entered into force in 1996]...a partnership between governments, civil society and the private sector, working towards a prosperous Western Indian Ocean Region with healthy rivers, coasts and oceans."
- Nairobi Planning Innovations: Innovations in Urban Planning for the Nairobi Metropolitan Area (2017) (Nairobi, Kenya; New York, USA)
"...Our hope is that residents, students, policy makers, and planners from Nairobi and abroad will contribute ideas on how to plan for a city that takes into account the economic, social, and political interests of all residents."
- Nairobi Securities Exchange
"Founded in 1954, NSE has a six decade heritage in listing equity and debt securities...NSE demutualized and self-listed in 2014."
- Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (Nairobi)
- National Council for Population & Development (Nairobi, Kenya)
- Network of African Science Academies (Nairobi, Kenya)
- PACJA--Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (Nairobi, Kenya)
"Founded in 2008...a continental coalition of Civil Society Organizations from diverse backgrounds in Africa...seeking to conduct interventions across the environment sector to promote stronger people-centered, pro-poor perspectives on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement."
- Power Shift Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
- Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development Egerton University (Nairobi, Kenya)
Founded in 1995
- Transparency International -- Kenya (Nairobi)
- United Nations Agencies on Kenya -- Economy & Health
- UNAIDS--UN Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS: Kenya (Geneva, Switzerland)
- UNDP Human Development Index for Kenya, 1999-2023
- United Nations Development Programme--Human Development Reports on Kenya, 1999-2009 (New York)
- UN Economic Commission for Africa: "Kenya: weak governance hobbles economy." (2002) Chapter 4 in Economic report on Africa 2002: tracking performance and progress. (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) PDF format.
- UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme (Nairobi, Kenya) --via Columbia University Libraries.
- Seventh United Nations Environment Assembly, December 8-12, 2025, Nairobi, Kenya, on the theme "Advancing sustainable solutions for a resilient planet”.
--See also: UNEA-4, March 11-15, 2019 ; UNEA-5, February 22-23, 2021 -and- UNEA-6, February 26-March 1, 2024
--Plus: About the United Nations Environment Assembly
- Kenya wetlands atlas. -- Nairobi, Kenya: Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources and the United Nations Environment Programme, 2012. 150 pages in PDF format.
- UN-Habitat: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Nairobi, Kenya)
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Kenya Profile and Reports, 2002- (Geneva, Switzerland)
- UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund in Kenya (Nairobi)
- United States Agencies on Kenya -- Economy (Washington, DC)
- University of Nairobi: Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies (Nairobi, Kenya)
"...part of the college of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences (CAVS) at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. WMI has been established to honor, recognize, celebrate, advance, and immortalize the ideals and works of one of its alumni, the 2004 Peace Nobel Laureate Prof. Wangari Muta Maathai."
--See especially:
E-Resources
- World Agroforestry Centre: Eastern and Southern Africa -and- West and Central Africa (Nairobi, Kenya; Yaoundé, Cameroun)
Research and project news, with links to open access journal articles and reports. "...to generate science-based knowledge about the diverse roles that trees play in agricultural landscapes, and to use its research to advance policies and practices, and their implementation, that benefit the poor and the environment."
- The World Bank on Kenya (Washington, DC)
- Country brief and data on Kenya, 2010- (includes projects document search)
- Kenya Economic Update, 2013-
- World Development Indicators for Kenya (2014); and other data
- Agricultural extension: the Kenya experience. OED Précis ; no. 198. -- Washington, DC: Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 2000. 94 pages in PDF format
- World Bank Agricultural Extension Projects in Kenya (June 1999) OED Impact Evaluation Report ; no. 19523. -- Washington, DC: Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1999. 65 pages in PDF format
- Kenya's geothermal development program (July 1998) OED Précis ; no. 162. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1998. (PDF File)
- The World Bank & the agricultural sector in Kenya: an OED review (June 1998) OED Country Specific Sector Review ; no. 18088. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1998. 38 pages in PDF format
- Kenya--Development of housing, water supply and sanitation in Nairobi (April 1996) OED Impact Evaluation Report ; no. 15586. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1996. 162 pages in PDF format
- World Resources Institute: Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being (2007). -- Washington, DC: WRI, 2007. 164 pages in PDF format
--See also: WRI Presentations -and- Data sets