Green Growth capacity building and establishing Kenya Green Growth Coordination Platform

Description of project

The Green Growth collaboration programme was designed to create a national collaborative platform, referred to as the Green Growth Cluster Collaboration Platform.
It would create green, public solutions and new green businesses in Kenya.

Through engagement with local knowledge institutions, communities and county governments, we are tuned into the untapped potential within the Kenyan market.

There is great potential to pursue a development pathway that will create green jobs, accelerate poverty reduction, support sustainable growth and restore environmental health and quality. An inclusive and equitable green growth path requires the maximization of benefits from natural resources while minimizing social and environmental costs and risks.

Type of services provided

The responsibility of the consultant (Quercus Group) was to create a national collaborative platform and act as an advisor for Kenyan government institutions and key stakeholders laying out the path towards Green Growth.

Services provided in the inception phase:
The first step in building larger green growth efforts in Kenya is training of the relevant people in Kenya’s ministries, agencies and 47 counties (sub-regions). There is a need of mindset change, government employees need to understand that Green Growth is happening not just to save the planet but because Kenya can profit from green growth.

Services provided in the implementation phase:

• The consultancy task has the effect that it opens up Kenya for Danish cleantech.
• After the Green Growth training, the next step for Quercus Group was to facilitate the creation of a national collaborative platform, referred to as the Green Growth Cluster Collaboration Platform.
• This Kenyan cluster created green, public solutions and new green businesses in Kenya – and just as importantly communicated the green business opportunities in Kenya internationally.
• On the longer term, there is an even greater ambition that the Danish CCC-model (Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster, ed.) would cover an entire East African cluster stretching across multiple borders.