[{"bbox": [87, 153, 403, 183], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 1.2 Summary of the Action"}, {"bbox": [95, 211, 1158, 291], "category": "Text", "text": "As part of the EU Global Gateway, the Action is a key component of the Kenya Green Deal Team Europe Initiative (TEI). It contributes to the TEI's overall objective 'to advance towards a green economy that contributes to climate neutrality, biodiversity, reduced pollution, resilience, decent jobs, and sustainable economic growth'."}, {"bbox": [95, 291, 1158, 345], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action's overall objective is 'to promote greener, more inclusive and resilient urbanisation and rural development in Kenya' and comprises of the following three specific objectives, to:"}, {"bbox": [125, 370, 1114, 398], "category": "List-item", "text": "1. Make urban mobility more environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable and accessible."}, {"bbox": [125, 398, 1158, 451], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. Deliver participatory slum upgrading, land services and low-cost green and adequate incremental housing solutions replicable at scale by low-income households."}, {"bbox": [125, 450, 1158, 501], "category": "List-item", "text": "3. Enhance resilience to drought and other climate change effects of communities in arid and semi-arid lands."}, {"bbox": [95, 529, 925, 557], "category": "Text", "text": "In this way the Action contributes to climate mitigation and adaptation priorities in Kenya."}, {"bbox": [95, 582, 1158, 767], "category": "Text", "text": "Over half of Kenya's population will be living in cities by 2050 driven by rural to urban migration as economic growth and jobs continue to gravitate towards urban centres. Climate change contributes by inducing poverty and malnutrition amidst rural populations. More than half of the urban population live in slums with inadequate basic services, such as precarious housing, water, sanitation, energy, solid waste management and the lack of reliable public transport. The negative externalities of climate change contributing to rapid urbanisation are mutually reinforcing and require complementary efforts in both the urban and rural areas, which the Government of Kenya (GoK) is committed to address."}, {"bbox": [95, 793, 1158, 954], "category": "Text", "text": "Building on long-standing EU support, GoK is developing its first national public mass rapid transit system (MRTS) in the Nairobi Metropolitan Area (NMA). The EU has been supporting this since 2015 to re-establish public transport that is inclusive, safer and green. GoK has also committed to delivering 500 000 affordable housing units, to upgrade slums and to improve resilience to climate change in rural areas. This will be achieved by better anticipating and mitigating the impact of drought and the reduction of other vulnerabilities in 23 Arid and Semi-Arid counties, hence indirectly slowing down the need for migrating to urban areas."}, {"bbox": [95, 980, 916, 1008], "category": "Text", "text": "To support GoK on the above objectives, the Action proposes the following programmes:"}, {"bbox": [134, 1007, 1158, 1167], "category": "List-item", "text": "1. The EU-Kenya Green Public Transport Partnership (GPTP) (EU grants of EUR 44 000 000 to EIB and France (AFD) who will lend EUR 220 000 000 in sovereign loans, an EUR 6 000 000 German (GIZ) grant, and EUR 28 000 000 contribution from Government of Kenya) to operationalise Nairobi's green public transport. Most importantly, this will provide inclusive, safer and greener commuting and reduce diseconomies of scale caused by traffic congestion. Then it will become Africa's first electric bus rapid transit (BRT) line reducing emissions and improving public health by reducing pollution."}, {"bbox": [134, 1164, 1158, 1379], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. The EU-Kenya-UN Partnership Implementing the New Urban Agenda (PINUA) (an EUR 8 000 000² EU grant to UN Habitat, leading to parallel financing of EUR 120 000 000 loan from EIB, EUR 9 500 000 million loans from the Kenya Women's Bank (KWFT) and EUR 8 000 000 from GoK). The aim is to implement participatory slum upgrading and to stimulate the provision at scale of land and other services for low-cost green adequate incremental housing. PINUA will draw on successful land-based financing; incremental housing; community co-production; and blended financing for households that prevents over indebtedness, among others. Manufacturing locally-sourced appropriate or recycled materials will favour the local and circular economy and creating decent jobs targeting people with disabilities, women and youth."}, {"bbox": [134, 1378, 1158, 1564], "category": "List-item", "text": "3. EU support to the Second Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Programme (KISIP-2) (a EUR 5 000 000 EU grant to AFD for technical assistance, leading to a EUR 45 000 000 loan and a EUR 750 000 grant from AFD, and EUR 135 000 000 loan from World Bank) to replicate KISIP phase 1. KISIP 2 aims to improve access to basic services and tenure security of residents in urban informal settlements/slums and strengthen institutional capacity for their upgrading in Kenya. It will also improve livelihoods through socio-economic inclusion of informal settlement residents through implementing community development plans."}, {"bbox": [85, 1618, 1065, 1645], "category": "Footnote", "text": "² Another EUR 10 000 000 EU grant may be committed for PINUA phase 2 under AAP-2024 subject to success of this first phase."}, {"bbox": [1067, 1680, 1170, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 5 of 37"}]