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Lessons from the Field:
What Works and What’s Wasteful: An Insider Perspective on Funding the African Environmental Sector
›By Devon Knudsen // Monday, June 1, 2015
Photo by Devon Knudsen
Buckets of charcoal in KenyaPartially in response to being a hub of environmental conflict, Kenya is also a hub of environmental activity. As the home of Wangari Maathai and the U.N. Environment Program, Kenya is also a founding member of IGAD, originally IGADD, when the DD’s stood for drought and development. Expansively mandated, IGADD was an impressive African environmental initiative to respond to what, even in the 1980s, was recognized as a major impending crisis. More recently, CNN Hero Evans Wadongo, Goldman Prize winner Ikal Angelei, and Global Energy Award finalist Teddy Kinyanjui are proof of how Kenyan youth are using their renowned entrepreneurship to help their communities.
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