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Kenya seeks alternative funding after aid cuts

UNDAF has in the last three years provided Ksh57 billion ($552.3m) financing to Kenya, its 2016-2017 report shows. FOTOSEARCH

By  Fred Oluoch

Contributor in Nairobi, Kenya

Nation Media Group

Kenya is bracing to adopt new ways of financing social services after the United Nations cut development assistance funding.

This follows the US President Donald Trump administration’s withdrawal of $32.5 million funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), an agency that supports family planning programmes in Kenya and other 150 countries.

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