USAID/Kenya

Economic Growth

Kenya has the potential both to feed its own people and to become an anchor of food security in East Africa. USAID is partnering with Kenyan farmers who are willing to try new technologies and management practices that increase their agricultural productivity and improve nutrition in their communities.

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Health

As part of the US President’s Malaria Initiative to reduce the burden of malaria, USAID helped train over 3,200 health care workers on the use of the rapid diagnostic test for malaria. The rapid diagnostic test is a device that detects a malaria antigen and results take 5 – 20 minutes.

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Feed the Future

USAID's Resilience and Economic Growth in the Arid Lands–Accelerated Growth program will increase economic growth by facilitating behavior change in actors along the chain, from livestock keepers to middlemen, traders, transporters and buyers in order to improve incomes and stimulate growth

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Youth for Peace

Through Yes Youth Can, young Kenyans are becoming leaders and working together to create solutions to issues that affect them. These dancers from a youth bunge in Dandora perform for their community with messages of peace and drug and alcohol avoidance

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Education and Youth

The Governments of Kenya and the United States share the goal of an AIDS-free generation. USAID's Healthy Outcomes through Prevention Education program will improve students’ HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes, and practices through peer-to-peer, school and community-based interventions, helping Kenya to meet that goal.

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