Kenyan President William Ruto has signed a $60 million dollar grant agreement with the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly session in New York. The grant will help improve urban transport in Nairobi by concentrating on four projects, making the Kenya program the largest of its kind within MCC's portfolio.
Kenyan President William Ruto lauded the new agreement with the U.S. foreign aid agency MCC, at the signing in New York City Tuesday evening where he is also attending the 78th session of this year's U.N. General Assembly.
Threshold grants help countries to reduce constraints to faster economic growth and increase transparency and accountability in the provision of public services. "We like to measure with all of our work, and in this case we estimate to about 4.3 million people could be helped by this threshold agreement," she said.
"One, to help build the capacity of the Nairobi metropolitan area transport authority [NMATA] with their transportation planning needs," he said."Second project will focus on what we call, non-motorized transport, so helping citizens -- particularly citizens of working class -- who use non-motorized transport as well as informal forms of transport, such as Matatus."
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