The clause that could reshape Kenya’s sovereign wealth fund Kenya's fund, as established, is primarily anchored in mineral and petroleum wealth and comprises three components: the future generations fund, the stabilisation fund and the infrastructure fund.
KRA already knows more about your business than you think KRA having the data does not transfer responsibility away from the taxpayer. Section 56 of the Tax Procedures Act continues to place the burden on the taxpayer to review, validate and where...
How Nairobi is building Africa’s next great marathon economy Through Standard Chartered Foundation, marathon registration proceeds have supported education, employability and entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, women and persons with...
Public money needs new job in Africa agriculture Much of today's agricultural support, in Africa and among OECD countries alike, isn't idle; it's actively working against resilience.
Why access to child cardiac care cannot wait A child living with an undiagnosed heart condition may experience symptoms that are easily mistaken for other illnesses.
Kenya must close last mile of medicine safety As African countries strengthen regulatory and digital health systems, we should measure more than whether reporting platforms exist.
Health summit 2026: The talk Kenya needed Healthcare is an ecosystem. The Ministry of Health cannot succeed without counties, counties cannot succeed without healthcare workers, and SHA cannot deliver Universal Health Coverage (UHC)...
Fiscal constitution of Kenya’s digital future Technology is not new to us. It has been reorganising our economies, our work and our social lives for decades, from the mobile money revolution onwards.
How to optimise use of healthcare system Under devolution, counties continue to grapple with institutional hurdles such as poor financing, inadequate inventory systems, disconnected supply chain management, inadequate human resources...
Kenya must win election disinformation fight The rise of misinformation, disinformation and fake news has fundamentally altered political discourse around the world.
KRA tax audits: What taxpayers need to know KRA currently requires applicable taxpayers to comply with eTIMS/TIMS requirements, and from the 2026 year of income, KRA has stated that declared business income and expenses must be supported...
Firm up Livestock Bill to secure livelihoods In Kenya, livestock sector contributes close to 4.4 percent of GDP while employing about 50 percent of the workers in agriculture.
Purpose on its own is not a business model A woman who emerges from a programme with greater confidence but no greater access to capital, markets, decision-making or economic security has gained something valuable, but the structural...
Large-scale irrigation key to Kenya transformation Kenya has an estimated 3.5 million acres of irrigation potential, but only about 747,000 acres (just 21.3 percent of our irrigation potential) are under irrigation.
Verify age without building identity trails The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) says age-verification methods involving children must be proportionate, privacy-preserving, compliant with data minimisation and grounded in...
Building a Judiciary worthy of public confidence Public confidence is not secured by singular acts of bravery. It is cultivated through the experiences of those who come before courts.
Think long-term in funding public education There can only be a long-term strategy, which would involve looking for ways to increase our gross domestic product so as to have more money to fund social amenities.
Reimagining Kenya’s next development model Today, national competitiveness is increasingly determined by innovation capacity, technological capability, institutional quality, skilled human capital and resilience against complex shocks.
Making sense of Kenya-China trade discrepancy Experience has shown that arbitrary benchmark values imposed without regard to actual transaction values undermine the principles of the WTO Customs Valuation Agreement, encourage disputes...
Africa should invest in narrative capital A 2024 study by Africa No Filter and Africa Practice estimated that stereotypical portrayals of Africa in international media cost the continent $4.2 billion annually through higher borrowing costs.
New data guidelines good for consumer protection The guidelines apply to both public and private entities that develop AI systems trained on personal data, produce recommendations or decisions based off of this data or use these technologies in...
PRIME Why Vision 2060 must be politics-free Kenya risks losing a historic opportunity to hold a genuinely consultative and non-partisan national conversation about Vision 2060.
PRIME Why Kenya can’t afford to play down El Niño The 2026/27 National Budget contains no dedicated allocation for El Niño preparedness, meaning any response will depend on existing disaster management and contingency financing.
PRIME Put communities at centre of HIV response in Africa We must also rebuild trust by ensuring communities are not passive recipients of innovation, but active partners in shaping how new technologies are introduced, delivered and sustained.
PRIME The high price of a First World Kenya Sub-Sahara has one high-income economy, Seychelles, a state of about 130,000 people. Vietnam was reclassified by the World Bank as upper-middle income this month, 35 years after its reforms began.
