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The importance of foreign aid relative to Kenya’s domestic resource mobilization is diminishing. Rapid economic growth and investment by non-traditional donors is now reducing the share and leverage of EU aid. While this trend weakens EU influence on reform, it advances the possibility of moving EU-Kenya cooperation from aid towards a more strategic partnership. Talk of ‘post-aid’ relationships is fashionable. Kenya is not there yet, though recent European debates on ‘differentiating’ categories of aid recipients should have paid more attention to Kenya’s internal transformations.