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Governments across Africa have no shortage of technical expertise. Where reforms slow down is in the leadership needed t...
10/08/2026

Governments across Africa have no shortage of technical expertise. Where reforms slow down is in the leadership needed to drive them, sustain them, and bring institutions along.

This throwback captures one of our most formative engagements: working with the African Capacity Building Foundation to assess leadership and governance capacity for public finance officials across Kenya, Senegal, and Zimbabwe, including a presentation by our MD, Wangari Kebuchi, to the Zimbabwean Parliament. The work shaped a six-month leadership development programme built specifically for the African PFM context.

A decade of work. More still to do. See what we have been building at www.expertiseglobal.org

Kenya's farmers are not waiting for climate change. For many, it already arrived this season in the form of delayed fert...
09/08/2026

Kenya's farmers are not waiting for climate change. For many, it already arrived this season in the form of delayed fertiliser, surging labour costs, and rains stopping at exactly the wrong moment.

What does it look like up close? Our Director of Programmes and Climate Finance, Jotham Wadongo, writes about it from personal experience, tracing a single season's losses to show what climate finance debates often miss. Read the full article here: https://www.linkedin.com/article/edit/7491459880164179968/

Behind every statistic is a farmer who planted in hope and harvested uncertainty. This is the story worth understanding.

For millions of smallholder farmers across Kenya, climate change is not a future scenario. It shows up in fertiliser arr...
07/08/2026

For millions of smallholder farmers across Kenya, climate change is not a future scenario. It shows up in fertiliser arriving too late, planting windows closing too fast, and harvests failing after months of hard work and money spent.

Jotham Wadongo, our Director of Programmes and Climate Finance, lived this first-hand this season. In his latest article, he traces the chain of shocks that turned a simple farming plan into a story of mounting losses, and makes a clear case for why investment in climate resilience is not optional. It is the difference between a harvest and a humanitarian appeal. Read the full article here: https://www.linkedin.com/article/edit/7491459880164179968/

Nearly 95% of Kenya's crop production is rain-fed, and the rains are no longer reliable. Waiting for a crisis to act has never been a strategy.

Kenya's most iconic wildlife landscape is facing a growing reckoning. Wildebeest numbers in the Maasai Mara fell from 58...
05/08/2026

Kenya's most iconic wildlife landscape is facing a growing reckoning. Wildebeest numbers in the Maasai Mara fell from 58,000 to 34,200 between 2023 and 2025, with some migration routes losing nearly 90 percent of their traffic in five years, even as new tourism developments continue to rise within the reserve.

Al Jazeera recently examined the court battle over developments like the Ritz-Carlton Maasai Mara Safari Camp, and whether Narok County can protect its wildlife while relying on tourism for revenue. Our MD, WangariKebuchi, weighed in, arguing Narok County's heavy reliance on tourism revenue is pushing developers to keep expanding, even though this overdevelopment threatens the very wildlife tourism depends on.

She believes the conservancy model offers the strongest way forward, provided oversight is strengthened and growth is guided by ecological limits rather than commercial pressure.

Read the full article here: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/8/3/the-battle-for-the-maasai-mara-can-kenyas-most-iconic-ecosystem-be-saved

A school feeding programme facing a KES 46 billion annual funding gap. A county working to build its own revenue base. P...
03/08/2026

A school feeding programme facing a KES 46 billion annual funding gap. A county working to build its own revenue base. Public finance systems under pressure to deliver better services with limited resources. These are some of the challenges Expertise Global has worked on over the past decade.

Since 2016, our work has taken us across Kenya and more than ten African countries, supporting stronger public finance, better planning and more effective use of public resources. Child financing, gender responsive budgeting and revenue mobilisation remain central to this work.

Ten years on, we continue to help shape stronger public finance systems so more people can benefit from better public services. Explore our work at expertiseglobal.org.

One extension officer serves 1,093 farming families in Kenya, nearly three times the ratio recommended by the FAO. It is...
02/08/2026

One extension officer serves 1,093 farming families in Kenya, nearly three times the ratio recommended by the FAO. It is one figure, but it helps explain why improving agricultural productivity requires more than subsidising farm inputs.

In her latest article, our Programme Manager, Jedidah Wanjagi, examines how budget choices shape agricultural productivity, food imports and long-term food security.

If you missed it mid-week, read the full article here: https://shorturl.at/BvDHU

Ten years ago, Expertise Global set out to strengthen public finance across Africa. Since then, the firm has delivered o...
31/07/2026

Ten years ago, Expertise Global set out to strengthen public finance across Africa. Since then, the firm has delivered over 30 projects in Kenya and across the continent, working with governments, development partners, financial institutions and civil society on the budgets and policies that shape everyday life.

The work has spanned education, gender, debt management and fiscal governance, carried forward through partnerships built over years, not months. Gender-responsive public finance and child-focused financing have become a defining part of how the firm thinks about lasting change.

A decade in, we enter our next chapter with strengthened leadership, a sharper strategy and a wider reach, ready to push systemic PFM reform further across Africa. Here is to the next ten years.

Kenya spent nearly Sh300 billion importing food last year, in a country where farming employs four in ten workers and dr...
29/07/2026

Kenya spent nearly Sh300 billion importing food last year, in a country where farming employs four in ten workers and drives a fifth of GDP.

The problem isn't the land or the labour. It's the budget. Fertiliser subsidies take the biggest slice of agriculture spending because they're visible before an election. Extension services, irrigation, storage, research, the things actually building a farmer's capacity to grow more, keep shrinking instead.

Even the money set aside often arrives late, stuck in procurement delays, leaving farmers waiting on inputs long after planting season has passed. Fixing this doesn't take a bigger budget. It takes the discipline to fund what works, and the courage to keep funding it past a single election cycle. Jedidah Wanjagi, our Programme Manager, breaks down what that would actually look like. Read the full article here: https://shorturl.at/BvDHU

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