Building Sustainable and Inclusive Markets
Our Impact
A Decade of Impact
Since 2011, Kenya Markets Trust has improved the lives of millions of Kenyans by facilitating the development of better market systems. In the video, we let the people whose lives we’ve touched tell their stories.
Our Impact In The Agri-Inputs Sector
Increased access and use of quality inputs, services and farming information by smallholder farmers through sustainable markets
New Farmers Reached
Over 500,000 smallholder farmers reached with new farm input products and services, as well as new technologies that improve on and increase farm yields
Increase In Farm Yields
Over 450,000 smallholder farmers realising increase in farm yields from 8 bags of maize to between 20-40 bags per hectare and an average increase in income of USD 200/acre per farmer
Private Sector Investments
Over GBP 18.06 million leveraged through private sector investments
Our Impact In The Livestock Sector
Impacted over 225,000 households (over 1.5 million people) with access to improved livestock markets, out of which 175,000 households (1.2 million people) have had their incomes improve
New Farmers Reached
129,753 pastoralist households have access to quality and affordable animal health inputs and services through an agency-based distribution model
Increased Income
90,318 households have realised increased income of £23,835,651(from the sale of higher quality livestock
Private Sector Investments
Supporting a women-led cooperative of about 300 female members on livestock aggregation and trade for better market access. Through this initiative, over 6,000 sheep and goats have been aggregated from Marsabit and Samburu counties with a cumulative income of GBP 348,300 over the last 12 months
Our Impact In The Water Sector
Water Access
Cumulative improved performance of these water utilities has resulted in over 83,100 households (498,600 people) accessing clean and safe drinking water
Increased Income
An estimated cumulative total savings of GBP 2,853,747 as a result of residents spending less time looking for alternative water sources and instead utilising such time to engage in other income generating activities
KMT has been working with nine urban water companies and five rural water utilities to adopt service delivery models and innovative ways of minimising water loss for improved and expanded water supply to customers
Our Impact
Our work spans across all the 47 counties in Kenya where we work through key partnerships with businesses, representative bodies, governments and other relevant institutions in The Agri-Inputs Sector, The Livestock Sector and The Water Sector.
1,089,423
households with improved livelihoods
34
significant enabling policies, regulations, processes and informal rules have been influenced by KMT across its focal sectors
710
businesses have recorded improved performance
307,010
new jobs are estimated to have been created in wider economy due to sector growth
1,329,392
people are accessing new markets, services, products and information
GBP 238,589,275
increase in annual income/savings in selected sectors
GBP 50,639,744
value worth of investments has been leveraged
Our Research
Facilitating markets through research for evidence-based interventions
Our Case Studies
Actual examples of how our work is making a change
Our Blog
Opinion pieces and editorials on our work and related activities
Impact Stories
Stories from all over Kenya on how our work is impacting the lives of people