Ambitious tree planting plan gets meagre funding

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Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o. 

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The State’s overly ambitious 15 billion tree-planting initiative hangs in the balance over huge funding shortfalls as the government struggles in its plans to rely on third parties to fund nearly two-thirds of the Sh500 billion projects .

New details show that only Sh4 billion had been put into the project by the end of June, translating into just 0.8 percent of the funding needs by 2032.

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