DFID 7937 Managing Agent for the Sustainable Urban Economic Development Programme (SUED) Kenya - Contract Notice

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The UK Department for International Development (DFID)'s mission is to help eradicate poverty in theworld's poorest countries. In Kenya, DFID is working to strengthen peace and security, build resilience, promoteprosperity and tackle extreme poverty. As part of its expanding Sustainable Economic Development portfolio,DFID Kenya has designed a new Sustainable Urban Economic Development (SUED) Programme that aimsto support emerging urban centres in Kenya to put in place sustainable urban economic plans; improve theinvestment climate. DFID is launching a new programme: Sustainable Urban Economic Development Programme, DFID Kenya(SUED). The 4 programme outputs will be evidence of: (1) Facilitation of increased public-private financing for commercially bankable climate-resilient infrastructureand value chain projects (2) Town/county level business environment reforms, (3) Improved town/county level capacity to design and deliver market-driven urban economic plans, and (4) Generation, and substantive uptake, of knowledge and research on approaches to sustainable urbaneconomic development