This site works best in Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari web browsers. Not all functionalities will work in Internet Explorer. This research evaluates the impact of an intervention to provide microfranchising opportunities to young women in Nairobi, Kenya. The research aims to measure the direct impact of a microfranchising intervention on program participants and the indirect impacts of the program on pre-existing businesses in the area of the intervention. To measure the direct impact on program participants, the research conducts two surveys of participants in the second wave of a micofranchising program being implemented by in six Nairobi neighborhoods. The two surveys comprise: a baseline survey of applicants who will subsequently be randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups or a control non-treated comparison group and an endline impact evaluation survey of up to women who complete the baseline survey.
Mwai Kibaki PNU. Uhuru Kenyatta TNA. General elections were held in Kenya on 4 March They were the first elections held under the new constitution , which was approved in a referendum , and were also the first run by the new Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission IEBC. Kenyatta was declared the winner with
Nairobi is becoming a ghost town as a tense and tightly-contested election nears
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Days before Kenya holds a high-stakes general election, its capital city has become a ghost town as residents head to their ancestral rural areas to vote or to avoid any potential violence. Grocery store aisles sit empty, their stocks cleared out by families stocking up in case instability renders them homebound. Some foreigners have left the country for a while—the United States has issued travel warnings for Kenya for the election period and other countries have cautioned their citizens to take extra care during the election. He is going back to stay with his family in the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya.