Kenya
IFAD’s strategy in Kenya focuses on improving the livelihoods and living conditions of poor smallholder farmers, agropastoralists and pastoralists. Investments are directed towards the delivery of services to rural communities, increasing their access to appropriate technologies, rural infrastructure, and financial services, and helping improve, diversify and market agricultural and livestock products. For greater poverty reduction impact IFAD concentrates its efforts not only in areas with medium-to-high productive potential, where most of Kenya’s poor people live, but also in arid and semi-arid lands where people face severe and variable climatic conditions. Explicit and transparent targeting – based on poverty data from Kenya’s Central Bureau of Statistics and on locally developed poverty criteria identifying poor communities and vulnerable groups – is now a feature of all new and ongoing IFAD-financed projects in Kenya.
IFADKENYA – country programme website
Kenya Country programme evaluation 2011 