For a number of decades, foreign aid-supported poverty reduction and development concepts, and policies and programmes developed by international development agencies and experts implemented since the 1950s, have produced limited short-term and sometimes contradictory results in Kenya. In response to this problem in 2000, the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was in many respects a tremendous achievement, gaining unprecedented international support. Poverty reduction and sustainable development are key priorities for the Kenyan government and the Kenya Vision 2030 blueprint...