Plans To Venture into Green Bond to Help Kisumu Secure Green Future

By Matilda Atieno The County Directorate of Climate Change in partnership with the ADA Consortium, FSD Kenya, Capital Markets Authority, Agusto & Co and Nairobi Securities Exchange convened a workshop that brought together public institutions and private CSOs in climate change and environmental sectors to deliberate on the overview of green bond assets and projects
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Ward committees set up to oversee climate change action plans in Kisumu

By Matilda Atieno The County Government of Kisumu rolled out a vetting exercise for the formation of the Ward Climate Change Planning Committee intended to be representative of the community with different interest groups given a seat at the table. According to the Kisumu County Climate Change Act, 2020 section 18, the Climate Change Directorate
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Ongoing Partnership and Implementation of USAID-Funded Global Labor Program

The County Executive Committee Member for Trade, Tourism, Industry, and Marketing Ms. Farida Salim joined the USAID implementing organization – Sightsavers in a meeting that highlighted key areas of inclusion in Kisumu which included, trade, diversity, equity and accessibility. The meeting also shared a brief on the global labour Program and the purpose of the
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More ECD Centers Holds Promise to Boost Early Childhood Education

By Matilda Atieno The county minister for Education, Mr. John Awiti today received two complete classrooms for the Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centres at Olwale and St Alloys Gem Primary schools in North and central Nyakach at a tune of 1.4 Million and 1.8 Million respectively. The projects funded by the World Vision program at
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County Focusses on Local Roads in Bid to Boost Accessibility

By Nancy Juma The County Department of Infrastructure, Public Works and Energy led by the CEC Hon. Salmon Orimba has today officially launched the 2022-2023 Machine Based Road Maintenance Programme for Muhoroni Sub County in Chemelil Tamu Ward and Muhoroni – Koru Ward. Accompanied by other County officials, teachers and students of Achego Girls Secondary School,
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Global Partners Meet in Kisumu to Mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day

By Nancy Juma Kisumu has joined the rest of the World  in commemorating World Neglected Tropical Diseases (WNTD) Day at Rabuor, Nyando Sub County. World NTD Day, is a global annual event marked every 30th of January and brings together public health officials and partners to raise awareness and to profile neglected tropical diseases to
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Kisumu Fish Farmers Receive Fingerlings

By Emily Mikwa Fish farming in Kisumu County has received a major boost following the distribution of 264,000 fingerlings to farmers courtesy of the Aquaculture Business Development Program (ABDP). The fingerlings were distributed across the earmarked sub counties as follows: Kisumu West 103,000, Muhoroni 29,000, Nyando 40,000 and Nyakach 92,000. On receiving the fingerlings, the
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Kisumu Receives KES 300,000 Sponsorship to KICOSCA 9th Edition

By Matilda Atieno Posta Kenya through the Post Master General, Mr. John Tanui, and Kisumu County gave Sh300, 000 thousand for the 9th edition of the KICOSCA games that will bring together various counties from Kenya. A team of representatives from Posta Kenya Nyanza region, the Manager sales, Mr. Thomas Orina, and Sales Nyanza representative
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African Film festival in Kisumu

By Matilda Atieno Kisumu residents let’s make way to the African Film festival currently under way at the Grace Onyango social center in Kisumu city. The festival brings together film makers across Africa to showcase their films in àn event which kicked off on Thursday the 15th and will end tomorrow the 17th of December.
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