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
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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