Kenya's Women and Girls' Effect
Many people have said to me that I must have had a rollercoaster of a first week as Head of DFID Kenya. Arriving over a weekend, to then be thrown into a visit from DFID’s Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, …
Can the G8 help Kenya increase trade?
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A recent experience brought to life for me some of the issues facing developing countries trying to improve tax collection. I have lots of family in Kenya, and a few days ago, my dad received the news that a cargo …
Polling day in Kenya – is democracy worth the effort?
Democracy in Africa – is it worth the effort? And why should foreigners help a country like Kenya to run its elections? It's Monday 4 March, and millions of Kenyans are already standing in long queues – many in intense …
Kenya's elections and the hope for peace
What comes to mind when you think of Kenya? Lions and elephants on the plains of the Maasai Mara, the world's best marathon runners, innovation in mobile phone technology? Or tribal hatred, political crisis, and running battles in desperate slums? …
Digital by default - a new reality for development?
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A few weeks ago I went to see the new James Bond film Sky Fall. Without giving away too much, at one point in the film James Bond goes to a remote part of the UK. The area is portrayed …
Don't romanticise; don't patronise
This Sunday, 1 April 2012, our tiny, Kenyan, DFID-funded media project is going to be on the red carpet in Cannes, France. The reason: Shujaaz has been nominated for the children and young people's category of the International Digital Emmy® …
Faces of hunger, faces of hope
So many of us taking part in Blog Action Day this year will have seen the Horn of Africa food crisis unfold on our computers or televisions. Yet it is difficult to get a true sense of the scale and …
Together we can tackle hunger
...cash loans, many are buying cattle or improving irrigation – investments that will build their resilience in times ahead. Of course, this isn’t simply about rain. The famine in Somalia,...
A visit to East Africa and the Dadaab refugee camp
As you fly over this arid, dry and dusty land the vast expanse of tented shelters sprawling across the horizon immediately captures your attention. There are almost 400,000 people - a number equivalent to the entire population of Bristol - …
Fairtrade: a better future for Kenya's farmers
Towards the end of last year, I was privileged to visit Africa with Harriet Lamb, Executive Director of the Fairtrade Foundation, to see for myself the benefits Fairtrade is bringing to growers and their families in South Africa and Kenya. …
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