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This briefing outlines the critical need for sustainable cooling in Kenya, highlighting the vulnerability of millions of people to extreme heat and the potential climate impact of increasing refrigeration and air-conditioning (RAC) usage. It connects cooling access to health, nutrition, and economic goals, while aligning these needs with Kenya's Energy Transition and Investment Plan 2023-2050.

The policy brief examines how the G20 can better support Africa's tax agenda to finance Sustainable Development Goals. While progress was made under the Indian and Indonesian presidencies regarding the Two-Pillar Solution and BEPS, African countries still struggle with low tax-to-GDP ratios (16%) and high revenue losses from tax avoidance. The document recommends that the African Union use its new permanent G20 seat to advocate for a higher global minimum tax, increased digitalization of tax administrations, a global carbon taxation system, and progressive tax policies to fund social protection for the 85.8% of the African workforce in the informal sector.

This report by Krutham, commissioned by the African Climate Foundation, evaluates the role of climate risk insurance in Kenya. It analyzes the country's disaster risk financing strategies, the current state of the insurance and reinsurance markets, and the barriers preventing the insurance sector from contributing more effectively to climate adaptation and resilience.

This briefing note by the Global Resilience Partnership and Transitions Research examines the landscape of urban resilience solutions in informal contexts across the Global South. Based on a review of approximately 130 solutions, the report identifies a significant gap in urban climate investment—where only 1.2% of urban climate finance flows to adaptation and resilience—and highlights that most non-governmental solutions are still in early development stages. It provides recommendations for municipalities, funders, and policymakers to scale these innovations through better coordination, hybrid financing, and the integration of informal settlements into city planning.

The Natural Justice Strategy 2024-2028 outlines a pan-African approach to securing social and environmental justice through the legal empowerment of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. The organization focuses on strategic litigation, policy influencing, and the protection of traditional knowledge to combat the impacts of the climate crisis and harmful extractive projects.

This research paper examines the role and challenges of youth climate activism in Africa, highlighting the disproportionate impact of climate change on young Africans despite the continent's low global emissions. It discusses the motivations of youth activists, the barriers they face—including financial constraints and political repression—and the gap between tokenistic representation and meaningful policy inclusion in forums like COP28.

The FSD Africa Online Privacy Policy (Version November 2023) outlines how Financial Sector Deepening Africa and FSD Africa (Investments) Limited collect, process, and store personal data from website users and consultants. The policy establishes compliance with the Kenya Data Protection Act, 2019, and details the types of data collected, the legal bases for processing, and the rights of data subjects.

The document presents a roadmap for enhancing African resilience to transboundary and cascading climate risks. It calls for the African Union Commission to develop an implementation plan to improve coordination between Member States and Regional Economic Communities, leveraging key 2023 events like the Africa Climate Summit and COP28 to secure financial and technical resources.

This statement from the African Center for Economic Transformation evaluates the outcomes of the Paris summit for a new global financial pact, highlighting the emergence of a unified African voice and a broader global coalition calling for the reform of an international financial architecture that is deemed unfit for current overlapping crises.

This fact sheet provides a profile of Kenya's economic transformation based on the African Transformation Index (ATI), detailing performance across diversification, export competitiveness, productivity, technology, and human well-being.

The Catalysing Climate Resilience (CCR) programme, funded by the FCDO and managed by BFA Global, aims to build climate resilience for vulnerable households and businesses in Africa through a three-part strategy of seeding new solutions, accelerating promising models, and developing the broader innovation ecosystem.

The Green Affordable Housing Finance instrument, proposed by Reall and analyzed by the Climate Policy Initiative, is a two-pronged financial mechanism designed to catalyze the construction and ownership of green affordable homes. It combines an Enabling Environment Facility (EEF) for technical assistance and direct construction finance with a Guarantee Facility that de-risks construction and mortgage loans for local financial institutions. The instrument will be piloted in Kenya in 2023, targeting the gap in sustainable housing for low- and informal-income households, before scaling to Nigeria, Uganda, India, and Pakistan.

A study of 60 low-income homes across 12 cities in Asia, Latin America, and Africa found that fuel type, kitchen volume, cooking methods, and ventilation are the primary drivers of in-kitchen particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) exposure.

This report documents a Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) enforcement dialogue held on April 6, 2022, in Nairobi, Kenya. The forum brought together various departments of the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) to review gains, identify areas for improvement in NMT infrastructure and governance, and commit to a coordinated action plan for enhancing pedestrian and cycling pathways.

This fact sheet, based on the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report, details the current and future climate risks for East Africa. It highlights that the region has warmed faster than the global average, leading to increased drought frequency, glacier loss, and severe impacts on food systems, human health, and economic growth. The document outlines adaptation strategies, such as ecosystem-based solutions and climate-smart agriculture, while emphasizing the critical need for increased finance, improved climate literacy, and robust governance to build regional resilience.

This report by WWF South Africa presents the economic rationale for transitioning from a linear 'take-make-waste' plastic packaging model to a circular plastics economy by 2050 in Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, and South Africa. Using computational general equilibrium (CGE) modelling, the study demonstrates that such a transition would lead to positive cumulative effects on GDP, employment, and consumer welfare across all three nations while significantly reducing the costs of environmental externalities.

This report by WWF South Africa examines the role of the informal waste sector in African cities, advocating for an "inclusive circular economy" that integrates reclaimers into formal waste management systems. It analyzes the operational status, socio-economic challenges, and policy landscapes of reclaimers in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda, arguing that their inclusion is essential for sustainable urban waste management and poverty alleviation.

This case study describes the Youth Enterprise Grant (YEG), a pilot project by FSD Africa and GiveDirectly that provided smartphones and financial grants to 1,000 youth in the Mathare slum of Nairobi to evaluate the impact of digital technology on livelihoods and business skills.

The report 'Killed by Breathing' analyzes the global crisis of cooking poverty, where 3.83 billion people in 71 countries rely on solid fuels and low-quality stoves. It argues that the current 'clean cooking' sector is not on track to meet Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) due to fragmented governance, insufficient funding, and a lack of focus on end-user behavior. The authors propose a shift toward the term 'cooking poverty' to reflect the scale of the problem and recommend integrating cooking solutions into existing electrification infrastructure to leverage its finance and technical support systems.

This report evaluates the Youth Enterprise Grants (YEG) pilot project in Mathare, Nairobi, which provided approximately $1,200 in cash grants and a smartphone to 1,018 youth (aged 18-35). The project tested whether these tools could improve economic outcomes for urban youth in informal settlements, comparing lump sum (LS) and monthly payment (MP) models. Key findings indicate a significant shift toward self-employment, improved financial resilience—even during the Covid-19 pandemic—and a high feasibility of mobile money transfers in slum environments, though the impact of specific business-skill apps was limited.