From my limited reading I have gathered that the budget of the UNEP is more than US$600 million. Nairobi being the headquarters of UNEP I assume a lot of that money ends up in the city and has a big effect on the economy of the city.

The US is the biggest contributor to the UN. Tomorrow Donald Trump becomes the president. There has been talk that the US already pays too much to the UN and Donald Trump does not care too much about the environment.

Is there anybody who has any projection on what the Donald's presidency will have on the UN and in particular UNEP? What effect would say a 50% loss of funding for UNEP have on the economy of Nairobi? Rents, property prices, 2 Rivers Mall?

As to the UN, things will be different after January 20th.

We can survive without the UN.. Plus it's not like the HQ will be suddenly uprooted.. It will be tough but we can survive

A weaker UN is catastrophic for Developing and Emerging economics. While the developed nations have OECD to set the tone for economic issues, the developing world only has the UN as a platform to lobby for preferable social economic issues.

The death of the UN might however help the resurrection of continental and regional blocks.

A more assertive AU in my opinion represents Kenya better than the UN.

I have added USAID to the title. Does anyone have the figures for USAID expenditures in Kenya? Anybody working there who knows what programs are waiting for funding in 2017?



Will USAID remain independent from the State Department?

Trump has made brash comments about eliminating federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency in his crusade to “drain” Washington's bureaucracy. He also examines policies through an America-first lens — not one of global cooperation.

If Trump wanted to pull U.S. development programs under the umbrella of a national interest-oriented U.S. foreign policy — and cut down on the number of federal agencies at the same time — absorbing USAID under the umbrella of the State Department is one conceivable step.

It’s also not without precedent. Australia’s aid agency, AusAid, was absorbed into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade under conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott. And in Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper folded the Canadian International Development Agency into the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.