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Unearthing the digital divide among the urban poor in Kenya’s informal settlements

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By Harrison Kioko and Beatrice Hati This document draws attention to a digital divide among the urban poor as traced in an exploratory study on digital platforms and household resilience […]

Reaching the Hard-to-Reach Areas: A Case of Electrification of Remote Areas in Kenya

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By Abigael Okoko Off-grid rural communities in Kenya experience a multitude of challenges; one of them being lack of access to electricity which limits the productive capacity of the people. […]

Resilience – A channel of hope or just a fashionable jargon? An African Community Lens: Grounded Perspectives

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Interpreting resilience in a (more) complex century A conceptual exploration. By Beatrice Hati – MSc, PhD (ongoing) Beatrice is an urban planner, development specialist and scholar-activist working as the Coordinator of […]

Digital Platforms and Household Water Resilience for the Urban Poor

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By Harrison Kioko Access to clean water for domestic use is one of the major challenges that residents of Mathare Valley have to deal with. This notwithstanding, residents are exposed […]

Innovative Multi-Storey Gardens Enhancing Food Security in Kenya

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by Bernard Kang’ethe Njorah Bottom-up Frugal Innovation: An in-depth study of small-scale frugal enterprises in Kenya. Within the frugal innovation literature, there is a need for robust empirical analysis of bottom-up […]

Harnessing Clean Energy from Bio-Waste in Quest of Reducing Kenya’s Carbon Footprint.

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This Innovation Histories insight by Bernard Kang’ethe Njorah spotlights a case study of bottom-up frugal innovation in a small enterprise in Kenya to understand how frugality drives the product development process and […]

An Innovative way to break down waste into a useful resource

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By Rosebella Nyumba This Innovation Histories insight spotlights bottom-up frugal innovation in a small enterprise in Kenya to understand how frugality drives the product development process and the market creation process. This […]

A homegrown Kenyan innovation in orthopedics

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By Rosebella Nyumba This Innovation Histories insight spotlights a case study of bottom-up frugal innovation in a small enterprise in Kenya to understand how frugality drives the product development process and […]

Opportunities for electric cooking in mini-grids

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By Beryl Onjala Among the many efforts to establish sustainable and reliable electricity access for the estimated 600 million people who lack it in sub-Saharan Africa, mini-grid projects are rapidly becoming […]

Frugal innovation as a remedy to community’s energy and sanitation needs.

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By Rosebella Nyumba. Problem setting Flying toilets- however appalling and unorthodox- is a concept that residents from Kibera, Kenya, had grown accustomed to for a long time. Although it’s a habit that’s […]

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Unearthing the digital divide among the urban poor in Kenya’s informal settlements

Reaching the Hard-to-Reach Areas: A Case of Electrification of Remote Areas in Kenya

Resilience – A channel of hope or just a fashionable jargon? An African Community Lens: Grounded Perspectives

Digital Platforms and Household Water Resilience for the Urban Poor

Innovative Multi-Storey Gardens Enhancing Food Security in Kenya

Harnessing Clean Energy from Bio-Waste in Quest of Reducing Kenya’s Carbon Footprint.

An Innovative way to break down waste into a useful resource

A homegrown Kenyan innovation in orthopedics

Opportunities for electric cooking in mini-grids

Frugal innovation as a remedy to community’s energy and sanitation needs.

Unearthing the digital divide among the urban poor in Kenya’s informal settlements

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