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Kenya

Photo of a baby sitting under a bed net.

A child sits under an insecticide-treated net, one of over 17 million nets that UKaid has provided in Kenya in the last 9 years. Picture: Thomas Omondi / DFID

Kenya has the largest economy in east Africa, but there is a risk that the economic potential will not be realised if political stability cannot be maintained.

UK support in Kenya aims to promote stability – stimulating growth led by business and improving service delivery.

Top priorities

  • Getting more children into school in the poorest areas
  • Improving maternal and reproductive health and accelerating progress in fighting malaria
  • Creating more jobs for young people
  • Developing “safety nets” for the most disadvantaged
  • Promoting stability and strengthening accountability

We will spend an average of £128 million per year in Kenya until 2015.

Major challenges

DFID’s main challenges in Kenya are:

  • education
  • health and HIV/AIDS
  • governance.

Find out more in Major challenges: Kenya

Projects

Find out more in Projects: Kenya

How we have helped

Poverty and vulnerability tackled in Turkana, Kenya

Poverty and vulnerability tackled in Turkana, Kenya

How UK aid is protecting some of the most vulnerable people in Kenya

Protecting the vulnerable in Kenya

Protecting the vulnerable in Kenya

How UK aid is helping malnourished children and their mothers as part of the response to the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa

Last updated: 09 Dec 2011