- Sweden has committed fresh funding towards Kenya’s development priorities
- Part of the support will strengthen Kenya’s tax administration systems
- The cooperation framework is set to expire as both countries consider the next phase
Decades of partnership between Nairobi and Stockholm are translating into fresh financial backing for Kenya’s development agenda, Treasury Principal Secretary (PS) Chris Kiptoo has disclosed.
Stockholm has pledged Ksh20.6 billion in support under the Sweden Kenya Development Cooperation Strategy, a five-year framework running from 2022 through 2026 that channels Swedish funding into areas aligned with Kenya’s own development priorities.
A portion of that support is now flowing into tax administration. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is receiving Swedish backing worth an estimated Ksh545 million to roll out a Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Programme, a project designed to overhaul how the taxman gathers, stores and interprets revenue data. The initiative falls under the National Treasury’s broader Public Finance Management (PFM) reform agenda.
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Better data infrastructure at KRA is expected to sharpen the Authority’s ability to track compliance patterns and plug revenue leakages, feeding directly into the government’s wider push to shore up domestic tax collection.
With the current cooperation strategy set to lapse in 2026, PS Kiptoo’s comments point to Sweden’s continued stake in Kenya’s public finance reforms, even as both governments look ahead to what a successor framework might carry.
By Benedict Aoya
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