The Kenyan Cabinet has approved several international agreements, allowing major global organizations like the Ford Foundation and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) to establish offices in Nairobi. This move aims to solidify Kenya's position as a regional hub for health, science, and diplomacy in East Africa.

• Kenya will host the Eastern Africa Regional Coordination Centre for the Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC).
• The approvals were made on Tuesday, February 10, also covering the Novo Nordisk Foundation Kenya A/S.
• Kenya will also submit a bid to host the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group Regional Training Academy.
• The government authorized Kenya to host the International Nuclear Conference 2026 in Mombasa from March 24 to 26, 2026.

Kenya's Cabinet has approved comprehensive payroll reforms following a special audit of the 2024–2025 financial year that revealed widespread integrity issues and governance failures within the Government Human Resource Information System-Kenya (HRIS-K). The overhaul aims to ensure uniform application of statutory deductions across all public entities and address anomalies like altered payroll records and weak cybersecurity.

• The audit uncovered that 720 system editors altered over 4.7 million payroll records without audit trails, with some employees editing their own records.
• Nearly 300 State Corporations failed to fully migrate to the HRIS-K system, contributing to payroll anomalies.
• Mandatory security certification for HRIS-K by March 11 this year, deployment of forensic analytics, and full integration of a statutory deductions platform are key reform measures.

The Kenyan Cabinet has approved a major restructuring of the country's education sector, including the merger of the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), the Universities Fund, the TVET Funding Board, and the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) into a single authority.

• This merger, part of recommendations from the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform, is awaiting the passage of the Tertiary Education Placement and Funding Bill, 2024.
• The Cabinet also approved several other bills, including the Kenya National Educational Assessments Bill, 2025, which replaces the examination-centric model with competency-based assessments.
• Other approved bills cover curriculum development, basic education administration, teacher training, and the resolution of education-related matters, aiming to align the system with the Competency-Based Education and Training framework.