North and Northeastern Development Initiative (NEDI)
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Washington, DC: World Bank
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Kenya’s north and northeastern region
is a host to 11 percent of the total population scattered
across 63 percent of the country’s landmass. The arid and
semi-arid region experiences recurrent droughts that create
vulnerabilities for the nomadic pastoralist communities,
pervasive insecurity, suffers fragility, and has been a host
to the largest population of refugees in sub-Saharan Africa
over the last three decades. These policy choices
contributed to the significant lag in most of the
development indicators for this region compared to the rest
of the country. The region has huge infrastructure deficits,
low literacy rates, and contributes only a modest 4.7
percent to the national gross domestic product. To address
the socio-economic disparities and inequality challenges,
the Government of Kenya with support from World Bank (WB)
launched the North and Northeastern Development Initiative
(NEDI) in 2018. The NEDI, the region’s first significant,
integrated, and transformative investment, cuts across
foundational sectors including energy, water, transport,
social protection, displacement, and agriculture.
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NEDI, OFF-GRID SOLAR ACCESS, CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE, WATER AND SANITATION, TRANSPORT AND TRADE, HEALTH SYSTEMS, EDUCATION, INCLUSION