Supporting home-grown efforts to make oil a benefit and not a curse in Kenya [Video]

The Kenya Extractives Programme (K-EXPRO) is a DFID-funded project that aims to prepare local businesses and communities for the challenges and opportunities in the oil and gas sector with a view to ensuring the extractive sector is a benefit and not a curse to Kenya. It was a two year project that began in November 2016 and came to an end in October 2018 due to reduced scope and budget following the DFID Portfolio Quality Review in early 2017.

The discovery of potentially commercial but small volumes of petroleum resources in Turkana County (northern Kenya) raised prospects that a range of social and economic benefits could soon come to this marginalised and impoverished part of Kenya. The idea of extractives-led development captured the imagination of many policymakers in host countries with a focus to trying to ensure these investments increase demand for locally produced goods and services, and that the extraction of oil, gas, and …