Kenyan Node
Budget Information Programme
 Focuses on analysing the national
budget
What is it?
• Think tank
• Doing policy analysis and
research
• It is non partisan…no political
or any party affiliation
• It is a membership
organization
Regulation programme
 Focuses on the legal framework
governing economic activity
Trade Information Programme
 Focuses on regional and international
trade relations
Futures Programme
 Focuses on Utilization of futures
methodologies for research and policy
analysis
 Kenya’s youth bulge
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0-14 = 42%
15 – 35 = 38%
 Characterized by a high proportion of children,
a rapid rate of population growth and a low
proportion of older people
 This type of age structure + low levels of
development implies 26% likelihood of
experiencing civil conflict if youth are relatively
well educated and unemployed
 2007 = 3 million unemployed young people
 2010 = 4.5 million!
• Inter-connection of systems, their interaction and causal
relationships rather than as independent facets and snapshots
that require independent strategies.
Mazingira Scenarios
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Compile a fact book
Research
Scenarios Building
Policy Advocacy
Research Topics
• Disaster management
• Climate change and desertification
• Wildlife
• Energy
• Forests and ecosystem
• Agriculture and Industrialization
• Water and sanitation
• Pollution and waste management
• Environmental planning & Governance
• Social concerns (population, urbanization)
Facts
Forestry
Forest cover < 3%
Annual deforestation = 0.3%
80% depend on wood fuel and charcoal for
cooking
Hydrological cycle
• Recycling rate = 0%
• Renewable fresh water is 647m3
• Expected to fall to 235m3 in 2025
Pollution
• Doubled since 1980
• Kenya’s suspended particulate matter
is said to be 7 times that of Stockholm
Wildlife
• Decline due to loss of natural habitat
• 113 species are endangered
Current & Looming Crisis
Arable land
Area per capita declined from0.23 ha in 1980 –
0.14 in 1998
Population will be 60 million by 2030
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