Established institutions, including universities, research organizations, and government bodies, are playing a pivotal role in scaling climate-smart agriculture (CSA).
As the global energy transition gains momentum, Africa faces significant challenges, including the high cost of renewable technologies, limited local technical expertise, and fragmented policies.
The KNeCS offers a powerful new direction for accelerating the clean cooking transition in Kenya, especially by integrating electric cooking (eCooking) into the broader agenda.
The Kenyan government’s current program of demolishing structures and relocating residents living on riparian land in Nairobi has raised concerns about equity and fairness.
The workshop aimed to validate various aspects related to digital hubs, including the locations of the sites, digital needs and challenges, services and facilities offered by the hubs, as well as their management and sustainability.
These concepts all aim to facilitate digital growth in communities using different strategies. They have been applied in designing a digital hub for Mathare, with the goal of creating a model that can be replicated in other informal settlements.
The community pointed out that their digital needs were access to information, CBC learning, digital literacy and online marketing as well as accessing social media and other entertainment sites.
Participants discussed ways of tackling research waste, which predominantly included community engagement from research conceptualization to dissemination and openly sharing data and research outputs with the community and other stakeholders in the Mathare.