Kenya has signed a US$2.08 million grant agreement for climate-resilient agriculture, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The grant is intended to integrate Climate Information Systems into agricultural value chains.
Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi signed the Climate Smart Agribusiness Partnerships for Resilience (CSAPR) Grant Agreement at the National Treasury on 29 October 2026. The Treasury confirmed the signing in a statement on its official X account.
The agreement was signed during a courtesy call by Matteo Marchisio, whom the Treasury identified as IFAD’s new Country Director. The visit was the occasion for Mbadi to sign the agreement, bringing the grant announcement into the same official engagement.
The Treasury said the grant would complement the Integrated Natural Resources Management Programme (INReMP). Its account linked the funding to that programme and identified the integration of climate-information systems into agricultural value chains as the intended purpose of the CSAPR support.
The grant’s US$2.08 million value is approximately KSh270 million. The shilling figure is a local-currency equivalent of the dollar amount, not an additional allocation. Both figures describe the value of the same grant agreement signed at the Treasury.
Link to natural resources programme
The INReMP connection places the grant alongside a named programme rather than leaving its purpose described only in broad agricultural terms. The Treasury’s wording was that CSAPR would complement INReMP, establishing the intended relationship between the grant and the programme.
CSAPR and INReMP are distinct elements of the announcement. The former is the grant agreement signed by Mbadi; the latter is the programme that the grant is intended to complement. Their connection is part of the Treasury’s description of the arrangement.
The stated climate-information purpose is also specific. It concerns integrating Climate Information Systems into agricultural value chains, identifying both the systems involved and the setting for their use. That is the agricultural work to which the Treasury attached the grant.
The signing and the intended integration are different stages. The confirmed development is the signing of the agreement on 29 October. The incorporation of Climate Information Systems into value chains is the purpose described by the Treasury, rather than a completed outcome established by the signing itself.
Funding route and official engagement
The financing arrangement gives the Gates Foundation and IFAD distinct roles. The Foundation is the source of the grant funding, while IFAD is the organisation through which that funding is provided. The Treasury described both roles in its account of the agreement.
Mbadi was identified as the Cabinet Secretary who signed at the National Treasury. Marchisio was named as the visiting IFAD Country Director, with the courtesy call providing the setting for the signing. These are the roles attributed to the two officials in the announcement.
The reference to funding “through” IFAD is important to the description of the arrangement: the Treasury identified the Gates Foundation as the funder while placing IFAD in the funding route. The announcement therefore connects the grant to both organisations.
The financial value, programme link and agricultural purpose all belong to the same CSAPR agreement. The approximate KSh270 million equivalent expresses its scale in Kenyan currency, while US$2.08 million is the amount stated by the Treasury for the grant.
The agreement’s stated direction is to complement INReMP and integrate Climate Information Systems into agricultural value chains. The signing formalises the grant agreement; it should not be read as evidence that the intended integration has already been completed.
