Market Assessment

Gendered access to water and energy is an important factor in determining outcomes and opportunities in households. This paper sought to measure gender differences in access to water and energy and examine how this affects wellbeing of women and men. To measure well-being, a multi-dimensional poverty index was computed with dimensions covering: standard of living, economic engagement, education and health. A logistic regression methodology was followed to predict the well-being of an individual based on gendered access to water and energy. Two separate models were tested for men and women. The results show that women’s well-being is disproportionately adversely affected...

The Republic of Kenya is regarded as the regional hub for finance and trade in East Africa. Kenya’s main port, Mombasa, is the largest seaport in East Africa that serves as a gateway to many other East and Central African nations as well, many of which are land-linked. Kenya has a population of approximately 44.86 million (2014), out of which an estimated 26 million lies in the working age group of 15–64. Kenya also has one of the largest youth populations in Africa, with almost 16 million people lying in the age group of 15–34 years. By 2050, it is...

This market research report, and its companion report focused on India, submitted under the IMPACT Programme, aims to build evidence about the investability of private urban sanitation markets. This report focuses on the urban sanitation market in Kenya and systematically studies the potential for investments in private enterprises along the sanitation value chain. The report is the output of the first of three phases and will help enable investors to understand barriers that currently exist in deploying commercial and development investments into urban sanitation. It reviews key attributes unique to sanitation business models that help or deter their access to...

The study investigates infrastructure inadequacies in Kenya, which slows down economic performance, by assessing the linkages between the sub-regional economic performance and infrastructure connectivity and services. It uses infrastructureled theory to lay the foundation for the nexus between economic performance and infrastructure. The study fills a major gap in the country and literature, since there are no studies that have assessed the effects of connectivity and utilization of infrastructure network to economic growth in Kenya, and the studies that have made such attempts in other jurisdictions have various limitations, including choice of variables and scope of infrastructure. Regression analysis is...