Author Archives: Dr. Daniel Mutegi Giti, PhD.

Kenya hosts the Africa Climate Summit & Africa Climate Week from 4th to 6th September 2023, and it’s hoped that this will provide a viable platform for policy makers, practitioners, private sector, civil society and development partners to deliberate and come up with solutions on the menace of climate change and global warming. The summitContinue reading “Climate change economics key to success of the talks”

A young engineer set himself ablaze last week in Mombasa, and a young medical doctor committed suicide for lack of a decent job sometimes in May this year, and many other young persons and Kenyans in general are dying under the same circumstances. A word of caution to young people and Kenyans is that despiteContinue reading “The scourge of unemployment”

The decision to use the Lease and Operate Model, one of the Public Private Partnerships (PPP) models under the PPP Act 2021, essentially undoing the earlier decision to use privatization, is strategic. Privatization globally replaced municipalization, where municipals of old provided some services like street lighting through its revenues bases and collection or nationalization whereContinue reading “Kudos Cabinet for reversing privatization of sugar companies”

The general elections held in March 2013 ushered in a devolved system of government in Kenya. This means that 2023 marks 10 solid years in which Kenya has been implementing the devolved system of government. The devolution conference will be held between 15th to 19th August 2023 in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu county under the themeContinue reading “Ills that counties are yet to cure”

The 8th devolution conference will be held between 15th to 19th August 2023 in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu county under the theme “10 years of devolution: The present and the future” and under a sub-theme “driving transformation from the local level: county Governments as the centre of economic development”.  It is now accepted in Kenya thatContinue reading “Devolution conference should tackle revenue issues -Own Source Revenue-OSR”

Kenya, which measures 582,646 km2, is endowed with resources of diverse nature, be it minerals, excellent weather, good tourist attraction, quality education, infrastructure and an enterprising, intelligent and highly educated people. Our nominal Gross Domestic Product in 2022 was 110 billion US$, which comes ahead of Ethiopia’s 113 billion, Tanzania’s 76 billion, Uganda’s 48 billionContinue reading “Let talks leverage on critical juncture to accelerate Kenyan development”

Kenyans are in doubt keen on high education as evidenced by many packed lecture halls in the evenings, weekends and also in the online classroom sessions across the country. This is because many Kenyans have harboured dreams of attaining higher education but such dreams may have been affected by the grades obtained at form four,Continue reading “Establishment of Open University of Kenya will enhance accessibility for higher education”

The Cabinet Secretary for Tourism, Wildlife and Heritage Peninnah Malonza has announced plans to set up a Kiswahili Council (NKC) to promote the use of Kiswahili language in the country. One of the reasons for promotion of Kiswahili is that the language has immense opportunities to foster peace, cohesion, integration, and business among Kenyan communitiesContinue reading “Promotion of Kiswahili through setting up national advisory council a laudable move”

The latest NACADA report shows that 48.6 percent of Kenyans (27,042,214 out of 48 million persons in Kenya) aged between 15 to 65 years consume alcohol. This is the most productive age in a country and steps must be taken to ensure that such a high number does not slide into alcohol and drug abuseContinue reading “Concrete steps needed to stop alcohol consumption from becoming a national disaster in Kenya”

President Dr Ruto, has taken every available opportunity to advocate for the issues dear to the African continent – debt relief or suspension, adequate and innovative climate change financing mechanisms and review of the world order in matters membership to international apex bodies like the United Nations Security Council, and the inclusion of permanent membershipContinue reading “Africa needs more attention to grow and provide solutions to its people”