IFAD partners in Kenya
IFAD has worked closely with the Belgian Fund for Food Security (BFFS). Under the BFFS.JP, grant resources from the BFFS are used either separately or in tandem with IFAD loans.
In Kenya, BFFS.JP grants have enabled IFAD to test approaches at the field level and to scale up successful activities in larger projects. This approach has proved particularly successful for two types of activities: the provision of basic social support services (primary health care, nutrition and clean drinking water) and of sustainable rural financial services.
Since 1993, the BSF.JP/BFFS.JP has supported the Kenya Women Finance Trust (KWFT), a microfinance institution that aims to improve household incomes of low-income women through savings and credit, mainly for microenterprises. The KWFT has more than 400,000 women members throughout the country, employs more than 1,600 staff, and has become one of the most successful microfinance institutions in the country. The Trust is now licensed as a deposit-taking microfinance institution, which means that in addition to providing loans to clients, it is now able to mobilize and administer savings.
IFAD works closely with other donors in Kenya in support of government efforts to promote harmonization of donor activities. In collaboration with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, IFAD has promoted a demand-driven approach to agricultural extension designed to help poor and vulnerable households. It has also worked with the United Nations Environment Programme to access grant funds from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to address problems of human/wildlife conflict in the high-potential Mount Kenya agricultural area.
Source: IFAD
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