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Northern Kenya has long faced a scarcity of clean drinking water, posing significant challenges to community health and economic development.

Underdeveloped infrastructure and services, like reliable and safe pipe-borne water, have intensified the region's isolation and further hindered its economic potential.

In response to these issues, Feed the Future Kenya USAID Kuza (ACDI/VOCA) established the Impact for Northern Kenya Fund ("the Fund"), a $38 million impact investing vehicle designed to provide catalytic capital to financial institutions and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the potential to drive economic and social growth.

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A pilot project for payments for environmental services (PES) began in 2011 in the Yaque del Norte River Basin, the largest watershed in the .

The USAID - US Agency for International Development-funded Fiscal Accountability and Sustainable Trade (FAST) Activity assessed the pilot’s public financial management practices, efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and financial sustainability and provided recommendations for a future national PES program.

Join us on January 15, 2024, at 10:00am ET for a discussion of lessons learned from the pilot project and recommendations for a national program.

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are ecosystems - open, dynamic, adaptive, and can be predictable if and when all the parameters affecting their performance are known.

This is a big IF, and regularly, we find ourselves thinking the algorithms of the London and New York Stock Exchanges can be applied to the vagaries of secondary towns in arid, and semi-arid areas, where the rains are ever more erratic and patterns have become further disrupted.

The challenge is to work beyond the traditional linear, often mechanistic, views of markets and value chains, calling for a more fluid and holistic way of thinking.

In the , this challenge is manifested as complex dynamics with a multiplicity of factors impacting livelihoods, well-being, and how we are to take forward market development.

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Can We Apply Complexity Thinking to Market Systems Development? Markets are ecosystems - open, dynamic, adaptive, can be