Kenya and German Sign Bilateral Agreements

Kenya and Germany have signed an agreement on the climate change in agriculture to fund a project that will assist small-scale enterprises, cooperatives, water user groups and processing and marketing enterprises in the country to increase their capacity to adapt to climate change by making use of climate risk management measures.

The Adaptation to Climate Change and Insurance Project will be piloted in Homa Bay and Busia counties before being up-scaled to other regions. It will be funded to the tune of 2.5 million Euros. The Kenya government has allocated Ksh.21 million for it.

source: www.information.go.ke

German Chancellor and Kenya’s Prime Minister sign agreement in Nairobi to collaborate in research to assess the pastoral-livestock-wildlife benefits from Kenya’s eco-conservancies

Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Federal Republic of Germany visited Kenya today (Tue 12 Jul 2011) as the first part of a three-day, three-nation, African tour.

This morning, in the presence of the Chancellor, Merkel’s ambassador to Kenya, Ms Margit Hellwig-Boette, signed an agreement between Germany and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), which is headquartered in Kenya. The signing ceremony was part of a press conference given by Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga at Nairobi’s Intercontinental Hotel.

Germany has been one of ILRI’s top donors for many years, contributing more than USD11 million in just the past six years.