Japan and France have signed funding agreements worth a total of US$87.7M to boost electricity connection in rural areas, improve water supply and help farmers in Kenya.
France, through development agency Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD), gave a soft loan of 60M euros (US$72.38M) to connect new users to the electricity grid in six rural provinces and improve water supply in Nairobi.
Japan gave Kenya a non-project grant aid of 1.3Byen (US$11.3M), which it described as a type of budgetary support, and a grant of 460M yen (US$4M) for farmers to buy fertiliser.
A part of the French loan will be used to revamp a dam supplying Nairobi’s water and improve the city’s sewage disposal system