Gillian Faith Achieng, Joel Onyango, Eric Magale, Maureen Kabasa
Community-centred science communication is a shift from the conventional top-down dissemination of knowledge to a participatory, co-creative approach where local communities are integral to every stage of the research process.
By Monroe Dikiny, Joel Onyango, Priscila Njue & Maureen Kabasa
Introduction
Malnutrition and undernutrition continue to be an enormous global challenge despite several political and financing interventions. A survey conducted in the year 2023 revealed that, in 59 food-crisis countries, 281.6 million people experienced high levels of acute food insecurity resulting from decreased access to nutritious, safe, and sufficient food (FSIN and Global Network against Food Crises, 2024).
By Gillian Faith Achieng, Joel Onyango, and Eric Magale
Plant diseases remain a threat to global agriculture amidst growing global challenges such as climate change and population growth. In the Biotech field, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) gene editing technology stands out as a groundbreaking solution with immense potential for developing disease-resistant crops.
By Monroe Dikiny, Joel Onyango & Benard Simiyu.
Overview
Human beings have an intertwined relationship with climate, depending on and impacting one another. This extends beyond the human capacity to rely on modern technology and innovations to solve their day-to-day activities.
By Anne Maina, Benard Simiyu and Joel Onyango
Introduction
The African Union identifies the Blue Economy as the next frontier in Africa's unfolding transformation. According to the World Bank , “Sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and jobs while preserving the health of ocean ecosystem” defines the term Blue Economy. While drastically lowering environmental dangers and ecological scarcities, the concept seeks to increase social fairness and human wellbeing.
By Monroe Dikiny Joel Onyango, Maureen & Salome Okoth
As delineated by the World Bank, capacity building entails strategic investments in individuals, institutions, and practices to propel nations towards the realization of their development objectives. Within the realm of community capacity building lies the essence of self-reliance, cultivated through nurturing social cohesion and security.
By Monroe Dikiny, Joel Onyango, Maureen Kabasa & Salome Okoth
Introduction
Rivers are complex systems influenced by physical, social, biological, and governance dynamics, reflecting the interplay of geomorphological, hydrological, and ecological processes. Despite this understanding, addressing river challenges often involves disjointed input from various disciplines.
By Monroe Dikiny, Joel Onyango & Maureen Kabasa
Introduction
Decoloniality represents a profound movement transcending political and epistemological aims; it seeks to liberate (ex-)colonized peoples from global coloniality. Acknowledging the persistent influence of imperial technologies and colonial power structures on the minds, lives, languages, dreams, imaginations, and epistemologies of contemporary Africans and the global South is crucial. As a result, indigenous and endogenous knowledge has been marginalized, leaving Africa with outdated understandings that obstruct individual and community empowerment.
By Kevin Ouko, Nicholas Odongo and Esther Mugera
Overview
On August 8, 2024, the Research and Innovation Management (RIM)[1] Project hosted a webinar themed “Bridging Innovation and Market: Effective Technology Transfer and Commercialization”. The webinar was led by Prof. Tom Ogada, Executive Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) and Principal Investigator for the RIM project as the main speaker.
Issue 2
May 2024
By Ann Kingiri and Yvonne Gitu
Issue 1
By Dorcas Kalele and Joel Onyango
Real-world impact can be realized through action-oriented research approaches as well as through knowledge generated to impact societal technical action. Creation of knowledge for sustainability and achieving real-world impact can be mediated using different methods and tools, especially based on decision theory, to support decision-making processes.
Authors: Monroe Dikiny and Maureen Kabasa
Introduction
All regions worldwide are experiencing and will continue to experience the effects of climate change with varying magnitudes and consequences. The United Nations defines climate change as the long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns, and human activities are the main drivers of these changes (McMichael, 2003).
Authors: Erica Atieno, Lindah Kakai, Joel Onyango
Background
Climate change, a pervasive global phenomenon, mainly driven by anthropogenic activities, manifests in far reaching consequences such as extreme weather events, rising sea levels, ecosystem disturbances, and threats to biodiversity.
Monroe Dikiny, Mourine Cheruiyot, and Joel Onyango
The energy sector is a critical driver of economic growth in Kenya, with the country's development goals heavily reliant on access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. Compared with conventional cooking technologies and fuels, electric cooking (eCooking) is a relatively new choice for many households in Kenya.
By Gillian Faith Achieng and Joel Onyango
The Sixth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), convened in Nairobi, Kenya, emerged as a defining moment in the evolution of global environmental policy, marking significant strides towards addressing the planet's most pressing ecological dilemmas.
This blog was originally posted on Water Transformation Pathways Planning website.
Wetlands are valuable ecosystems to humanity. They provide clean water for domestic use, construction materials, and food. Wetlands also protect us from flooding events and help us to combat climate change.
We are thrilled to share reflections on the project outcomes and the valuable lessons learned during this transformative journey. Our mission was ambitious, aiming to institutionalize the matchmaking service at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST) and the Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC), while also paving the way for a national-level integration in Kenya.
By Solomon Ogara, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST)
Following the completion of the matchmaking activities between the students and entrepreneurs and the development of the matchmaking platform the next phase involved the institutionalization of the matchmaking service at the national level through a policy workshop and institutional level at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST) and at the Kenya Climate Innovation Center.
In the heart of Nairobi, the city in the sun and where innovation interconnects with academia, a groundbreaking phenomena unfolded on January 30th, 2024. This was a momentous occasion celebrating the institutionalization of the Transforming Climate Innovation Ecosystems through Inclusive Transdisciplinarity (TransCIIT) matchmaking Web portal within Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC).
Authors: Gillian F. Achieng and Joel Onyango
Achieving sustainable development and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is of vital importance to climate action. In a world grappling with the urgent need for transformative change, the pursuit of sustainable development has emerged as a rallying call for a harmonious coexistence between humanity and the planet.
