Indigenous peoples have been evicted from their forests by a conservation project in Kenya funded by the World Bank. The Bank is currently drafting a new forests action plan.
Kenya
Finance
Analysis
The IFIs in 2013: year in review
The Bretton Woods Project review of the most important developments at the World Bank and IMF in 2013.
Social services
Background
Is the World Bank serious about engaging CSOs and communities
Minutes from a civil society event on civil society consultations in the health sector at the WB/IMF annual meetings.
Accountability
News
IFC invests in Kenyan private international school
The International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank) in mid-March proposed a $7 million investment in Kenyan private education firm, Brookhouse Schools Limited.
Conditionality
News
Inflation "obsession" hurting Kenyan growth
Constraints placed on the Central Bank of Kenya's monetary policy by the IMF have been condemned as damaging to Kenya's growth.
Social services
News
Incendiario y bombero al mismo tiempo: el Banco Mundial y las matrículas escolares
La relatora especial anterior de la ONU sobre el derecho a la educaci
Social services
Commentary
Both arsonist and fire-fighter: the World Bank on school fees
A former UN special rapporteur on the right to education questions the World Bank's claim to have relinquished its support for user fees in education.
Accountability
News
Wasn't that a party…
The music at the farewell party for outgoing World Bank Kenya country representative Mukthar Diop…
Infrastructure
News
Kenya faces new aid embargo
In January the IMF and World Bank threatened to cut off Kenya from more than $450 million in aid as a result of a parliamentary bill on interest rate controls.
Conditionality
News
Reflections on Kenyan PRSP process
NGOs in Kenya are highly critical that the Poverty Reduction Strategy process did not fully involve NGOs, was dominated by the Bank and IMF and was not poverty focussed.
Accountability
News
Kenya MPs urge aid halt over graft
In mid-July 64 Kenyan MPs signed a statement urging the IMF and World Bank to suspend discussions on new loans to their government after a select committee report into corruption was cut, deleting the names of some politicians and civil servants.
