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• African Centre for Economic Growth (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • The website provides information about the centre's research programme and lists of publications for sale; some policy briefs are downloadable for free. Most of the research is on the economies of Eastern and Southern Africa. "ACEG started its operations in 1993 as Africa regional office of the International Centre for Economic Growth (ICEG) and was registered in Kenya in September 1999 as a non-profit, non-partisan autonomous policy research organisation."
  • ACEG publications
  • ACEG policy briefs and information bulletins ("free" in ZIP files -or- via e-mail request)
  
  
• African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • "The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) is an international inter-governmental policy research and training organization... The Centre's activities focus on the implementation of Agenda 21 and related conventions on biological diversity, climate change and desertification."
  • Introducing BT Cotton Policy Lessons for Smallholder Farmers in Kenya. (2004) 9 chapters in PDF format
  • ACTS online books on Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Monographs on Climate Change and BT or GM Crops in Eastern Africa
  • ACTS Papers
  
  
• African Conservation Centre (Nairobi, Kenya)
  A clearinghouse website on news about conservation and the African NGO sector. The site includes a searchable archive -- "CBO Database" -- with contact information and reports for community-based conservation activities in East Africa.
  
  
• African Development Bank Group on Kenya (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
  Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
  
  
• African Economic Research Consortium (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • "The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), established in July 1988, is a public not-for-profit organization devoted to advanced policy research and training."
  • AERC Publications -- Abstracts and Full Text in PDF format (Policy papers, executive summaries, research newsletter, etc.)
  
  
• African executive, The. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya: African Executive, 2005-
  An online weekly magazine which offers selected current and recent "news analysis" and opinion on finance, banking, and investment in Africa; with an archive of back issue articles since April 2005.
  
  
• African Medical Research Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya)
  This site offers news and other information about AMREF programmes (including "Flying Doctor Service") -- with offices in 4 countries: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and South Africa. "AMREF is Africa's largest indigenous health charity, and for 44 years in partnership with local communities, governments and donors, has worked to research and alleviate Africa's health problems."
  
  
• African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions (via UNESCO, Nairobi, Kenya)
  • The ANSTI/RAIST website -- in English or French -- provides links to activities at institutions all over Africa and offers access to online versions of articles appearing in the network's main publication:
  • African journal of science & technology. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya: African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions, 2001--
  • African Regional Conference of Vice Chancellors, Provosts, and Deans of Science, Engineering and Technology -- The most recent was held September 25-27, 2007 in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Report on African Regional Conference, November 15-17, 2005 in Accra, Ghana. PDF format
  
  
• African Population & Health Research Center, Inc. (Nairobi, Kenya)
  This website includes downloadable publications--newsletter, research reports, working papers, etc. "The Center was established in 1995 as a Population Policy Research Fellowship program of the Population Council, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2001, it became an autonomous institution with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya."
  -- APHRC newsletter
  -- APHRC research reports
  -- APHRC working papers
  
  
• African successes: four public managers of Kenyan rural development. By David K. Leonard. -- Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press ; California Digital Library eScholarship program, 2003 (1991).
  
  
• African Union -- New Partnership for Africa's Development: African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Country Report on Kenya (May 2006) (Midlands, South Africa) PDF format
  
  
• ALIN: Arid Lands Information Network -- Eastern Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • "ALIN--Eastern Africa is a network of Community Development Workers who are involved in drylands development...ALIN members are drawn from government departments, non-governmental organisations and community-based organisations."
    The site includes a few newsletters and information about community center programs.
  
  
• An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being...in Kenya (2007) (See World Resources Institute below)
  
  
• Bioline Publications Abstracts and Document Service (Electronic Publishing Trust for Development, UK)
  • View the abstracts without charge; view online or receive full texts with paid registration.
  • African Journal of Neurological Sciences. -- Nairobi: Pan African Association of Neurological Sciences, 1995-
  • Full list of journals
  
  
• Business Daily Africa. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya : The Nation Media Group, Ltd., 2007-
  The electronic version of the current daily issue with business and economic news for Kenya and East Africa.
  
  
• Kenya Business Directories Online
  • go4KenyaBusiness.Com (Nairobi)
    
  • See also: MBendi Kenya Profile below
  
  
• Central Bank of Kenya (Nairobi)
  
  
• Centre for African Family Studies = Centre d'Etudes de la Famille Africaine (Nairobi, Kenya; Lomé, Togo)
  • The website offers information -- in English or in French -- about activities, training, and CAFS publications....such as conference reports, news, and annual reports. "CAFS was founded by the International Planned Parenthood Federation - Africa Region (IPPF-AR) and has been serving Africa since 1975. It is now a fully autonomous international non-governmental organisation..."
  • CAFS News. (Online). -- Nairobi, Kenya: CAFS, 2000-
  • A situation analysis of NGO governance and leadership in eastern, southern, central and western Africa. (Nov 2001) Implementing ICPD in Sub-Saharan Africa. PDF format. -- Nairobi, Kenya, CAFS, 2001.
  
  
• Centre for the Study of African Economies (Oxford, UK)
  • Working Papers Series -- Abstracts & Full Texts
    Note: See all Full texts and abstracts (requiring Adobe Acrobat.
    
    -- "Towards an objective account of nutrition and health in colonial Kenya...African army recruits & civilians, 1880-1980" by Alexander Moradi (2008). Working paper ; 2008-04.
    -- "Credit can precipatate firm failure: evidence from Kenyan manufacturing in the 1990s" by Janvier D. Nkurunziza (2005). Working paper ; 2005-04.
    -- "The effect of credit on growth and convergence of firms in Kenyan manufacturing" by Janvier D. Nkurunziza (2005). Working paper ; 2005-01.
    -- "Educational expansion and economic decline ... Kenya 1978-1995," by Simon Appleton ... [et al.] (1999). Working paper no. 99.6.
    -- "Social learning: an application to Kenyan agriculture" by Paul Collier (1993). Working paper ; 1993-05.
    
  • CSAE Home Page
  
  
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA): Kenya Home Page (Lusaka, Zambia)
  Basic country information, banking infrastructure, investment guidelines, and other major economic indicators.
  
  
• Danish Institute for International Studies, Department for Development Research. Formerly Centre for Development Studies. (Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • All DIIS publications
    
  • "Development of African freight transport: the case of Kenya" by Patrick Alila et al. (DIIS working paper; no. 6 (Feb. 2006)
    
  • "Regulating industrial wastewater in Kenya: towards an appropriate institutional arrangement" by Joseph Onjala. (CDR working paper; no. 02.8, June 2002)
    
  • "Good intentions, structural pitfalls: early lessons from urban water commercialisation attempts in Kenya" by Joseph Onjala. (CDR working paper; no. 02.2, Jan. 2002)
    
  • "Water pricing options in Kenya: cases of Mwea and West Kano irrigation schemes" by Joseph Onjala. (CDR working paper; no. 01.9, Dec. 2001)
    
  • "Coffee markets in East Africa: local responses to global challenges or global responses to local challenges?" by Stefano Ponte. (CDR working paper; no. 01.5, Sept. 2001)
    
  • "Globalisation and regionalisation of Kenya's foreign trade and production" by Dorothy McCormick & P.O. Pedersen. (CDR working paper; no. 99.8, Dec. 1999)
    
  • "Contestation over political space: the state and demobilisation of party politics in Kenya," by Karuti Kanyinga (CDR working paper; no. 98.12, Nov. 1998)
  • "Struggles of access to land the "squatter question" in coastal Kenya," by Karuti Kanyinga (CDR working paper; no. 98.7, June 1998)
  • IIS/CDR Working Papers List
  
  
• Demographic and Health Surveys: Kenya Indicators, Datasets, and Reports (2005) (Calverton, Maryland)
  
  
• Development Gateway Country Overview on Kenya (Washington, DC)
  A clearinghouse of links to a wide variety of organizational websites with economic data. Originally founded by The World Bank, the DG has been an "independent", donor-funded organization since 2001.
  
  
• Directory of Development Organizations: Kenya (2008) (Bert Wesselink, The Netherlands?) PDF format.
  
  
• Drylands Research on Kenya (Somerset, UK)
  • The website provides summary information and abstracts of on-going research; order information only for full texts. "[For more than ten years] Drylands Research writes and co-ordinates policy-related research on rural livelihoods and environmental management in semi-arid tropical countries."
  • See also: Drylands Research Home Page
  
  
• East African, The. (Online): Business -- Nairobi, Kenya: Nation Media Group, Ltd., 2005-
  The "business section" of the current electronic version of a weekly newspaper covering news mostly for Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, sometimes for neighboring countries. Several weeks of reports are available on the web site.
  
  
• East African Community = Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki (Arusha, Tanzania)
  • This is the official website of the regional intergovernmental organization (encompassing Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) which was (re)established in 1999 by treaty (see "Key Documents"). The site includes information about the EAC, current news, and related links.
  • EAC Reports and Publications
  
  
• ELDIS Country Profiles (Electronic Development and Environment Information System, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
  Search for Kenya: This service compiles and indexes links to online full texts (requiring Adobe Acrobat PDF), related web sites, and print publications in the IDS library on a variety of subjects pertaining to Kenya, especially in the fields of agricultural economics, trade, health, governance, and education.
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization on Kenya (Rome, Italy)
  • 25th FAO Regional Conference for Africa, 16--20 June 2008, Nairobi, Kenya
    
    
  • FAO Document Repository: Kenya
    
    
  • FAO Aquastat Programme -- Kenya, 2006
    A brief profile on Kenyan water resources. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner."
  
  
• FEWSNET--Famine Early Warning System Network -- Kenya Center See USAID below
  
  
• Financial Standard, The. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya: The East African Standard Ltd., 2003--
  The website offers only the current weekly issue; no archives.
  
  
• France. Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie -- Marchés extérieurs: Kenya (Ambassade de France, Mission économique; Paris)
  De plus, il y a des informations sur les marchés du Burundi, du Rwanda, de la Somalie, et de la Tanzanie.
  
  
• Frogs of the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Coast Province, Kenya (Robert C. Drewes, Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California)
  This illustrated site summarizes research carried out by the author since 1986.
  
  
• Government of Kenya: Official Website of State House, Kenya (See below)
  
  
• Government of Kenya: The Ministries...and the Economy
  • Government of Kenya--Home Page
  • Agriculture
  • Co-operative Development and Marketing
  • East African Community
  • Energy
  • Environment and Mineral Resources
  • Finance
  • Health
  • Housing
  • Industrialization
  • Investment Authority
  • Labour and Human Resource Development
  • Lands
  • Livestock
  • National Bureau of Statistics
  • Planning and National Development
  • Regional Development Authorities
  • Roads and Public Works
  • Science and Technology
  • Tourism
  • Transport
  • Water and Irrigation
  
  
• The Green Belt Movement (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • "The GBM is a grassroots non-governmental organization based in Kenya that focuses on environmental conservation, community development and capacity building. Prof. Wangari Maathai established GBM in 1977, under the auspices of the National Council of Women of Kenya." See also:
  • BBC News--"Kenyan collects Nobel peace prize" (December 10, 2004)...and related stories. (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
  • Friends of the Green Belt Movement, North America (New York)
  
  
• Human Rights Watch: A Question of Life or Death: Treatment Access for Children Living with HIV in Kenya (December 2008) (New York) 100 pages in PDF format
  
  
• Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • "The Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR) was established in 1994 as an independent, indigenous and non-partisan private organisation. It is a non-profit body whose primary goal is to pursue quality research-based public policy analysis and to generate non-partisan discussion focused on Kenya and the region."
  
  
• International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (Nairobi, Kenya)
  The site offers information about on-going research by this international organization in human, animal, plant, and environmental health; plus a list of publications. "[Founded in 1970]...ICIPE is a tropical organisation: tropical insect science for development."
  
  
• The International Monetary Fund: Kenya Country Info (Washington, DC)
  Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat.
  
  
• KARI--Kenya Agricultural Institute (Nairobi, Kenya)
  "...a premier national institution bringing together research programmes in food crops, horticultural and industrial crops, livestock and range management, land and water management, and socio-economics."
  See especially: KARI Publications
  
  
• Kenya Government Statement on Population, 1994 (International Conference on Population & Development, Cairo 1994)
  
  
• KIPPRA: Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • "KIPPRA's primary mission is to provide quality public policy advice to the government of Kenya and to the private sector by conducting objective research and analysis and through capacity building in order to contribute to the achievement of national development goals."
  • KIPPRA Publications
    Access --requiring free registration-- to an extensive archive of annual reports, conference proceedings, discussion papers, occasional papers, policy briefs, and working papers, etc.
  
  
• Kenya Investment Authority (Nairobi, Kenya)
  A website with general information for the investor and economist, see especially:
  Links --and-- Publications.
  
  
• MBendi AfroPaedia: Kenya (MBendi Information Services, South Africa)
  A basic economic & investment guide, including information about the Kenya Stock Exchange (but no links to current stock prices).
  
  
• 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Pan-African Conference -- November 2-6, 2009, Nairobi, Kenya (AMANET, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; MIM, Stockholm, Sweden)
  
  
• Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (Nairobi)
  This official site features general information about government policies, some data summaries, information about publications, and some downloadable documents.
  
  
• Policy Project: Kenya (Futures Group, Washington, DC)
  A summary of assistance activities in HIV/AIDS policies and other reproductive health policies in Kenya, with downloadable reports in PDF format.
  
  
• Project Elgon (Mount Elgon, Uganda-Kenya Border) (University of Leeds, UK)
  Students and faculty from the U.K. and Uganda, assisted by staff from Makerere University, Mount Elgon National Park, and local people, carried out studies in 1996 in and around Mt. Elgon. This website is a compilation of basic information on the people, the wildlife, and the environment of the region, online papers from the project team, images, and useful links.
  
  
• SOMA-Net: Social Science and Medicine Africa Network (Nairobi, Kenya)
  General information about SOMA-Net, conferences and other activities since 1995, and contact information on council members in different African countries. "To establish long-term holistic and sustainable solutions to health in Africa; by encouraging, facilitating and supporting research..."
  
  
• State House, Kenya -- Official Website (ikenya.ws, Science and Engineering Resource Center, Nairobi, Kenya)
  This is one of the main sources for official news and information from the Government of Mwai Kibaki; includes Budget speech and links to ministries and an extensive archive of news summaries.
  
  
• United Nations Agencies on Kenya -- Economy & Health
  • UNAIDS--UN Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS: Kenya (Geneva, Switzerland)
    
    
  • United Nations Development Programme--Human Development Reports on Kenya (New York)
    2006 | 2005 | 2003 | 2001 | 1999
    
    
  • UNDP Human Development Index for Kenya (2005 data)
    
    
  • UN Economic Commission for Africa: "Kenya: weak governance hobbles economy." (2002) Chapter 4 in Economic report on Africa 2002: tracking performance and progress. (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) PDF format.
    
    
  • UNEP--United Nations Environment Programme (Nairobi, Kenya) --via Columbia University Libraries.
    
    
  • UN-Habitat: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Nairobi, Kenya)
    • The State of African Cities 2008 220 pages in PDF format
    • UN-Habitat Projects in Africa and Arab States
    • UN-Habitat Publications on Africa and Arab States
    
    
  • UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund in Kenya (Nairobi)
    See also: Select for Kenya Country Indicators, Policy Developments, and Overview
  
  
• United States Agencies on Kenya -- Economy (Washington, DC)
  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Kenya
    • USAID on Kenya -- Country Information
      
      
    • USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (General)
      Search the entire USAID database for downloadable (in PDF) reports on projects and studies on Kenya.
    • USAID--Africa Bureau, Office of Sustainable Development on Kenya
      -- "Unrecorded cross-border trade between Kenya and Uganda: proceedings of a workshop held at the Mayfair Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, December 6, 1996," by Chris Ackello-Ogutu and Protase Echessah. PDF file. SD publication / Technical paper ; no. 58 (July 1997).
      -- "Unrecorded cross-border trade between Kenya and Uganda: implications for food security," by Chris Ackello-Ogutu and Protase Echessah. PDF file. SD publication / Technical paper ; no. 59 (July 1997).
      -- SD Home Page (General)
      
      
    • USAID--Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) (General)
      Information on the Horn of Africa, Sahel--West Africa, & Southern Africa.
    • FEWS NET Kenya Center
      Current news and analysis of the food security situation on Kenya -- read online or download as a PDF files; plus links to other FEWS NET resources.
    
    
  • United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics:
    -- US-Kenya Trade Balance, 1992--
    -- US International Trade Statistics: Kenya, 1996-- (Search)
    
    
  • United States. Commercial Service: Recent documents on Kenya economy (International Trade Administration)
  
  
• The World Bank on Kenya (Washington, DC)
  • Country brief and data on Kenya, 1999- (includes projects document search)
  • Agricultural extension: the Kenya experience. OED Précis ; no. 198. -- Washington, DC: Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 2000. (PDF File)
  • World Bank Agricultural Extension Projects in Kenya (June 1999) OED Impact Evaluation Report ; no. 19523. -- Washington, DC: Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1999.
  • Kenya's geothermal development program (July 1998) OED Précis ; no. 162. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1998. (PDF File)
  • The World Bank & the agricultural sector in Kenya: an OED review (June 1998) OED Country Specific Sector Review ; no. 18088. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1998.
  • Kenya - Development of housing, water supply and sanitation in Nairobi (April 1996) OED Impact Evaluation Report ; no. 15586. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1996.
  
  
• World Resources Institute: Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being (2007). -- Washington, DC: WRI, 2007. 164 pages in PDF format
  See also: Maps and Presentation Slides -and- GIS Data