Furnished Apartments Near the UNEP Headquarters, Nairobi

UNEP's global headquarters sits inside the Gigiri campus and runs a heavy consultant and short-mission load — three, six and nine-month contracts rather than five-year postings. That tenant profile wants a furnished one or two bedroom on a lease that can end when the mission does.

Short-mission staff should confirm a one-month notice clause in writing, a deposit of one month rather than three, and whether the service charge covers water, because Gigiri boreholes carry the cost inside the charge in most blocks.

For this audience the single most important specification is fibre wifi. Nairobi has some of the best consumer fibre in Africa, with Safaricom Home Fibre, Zuku, Faiba and Poa Internet all competing in the main suburbs and home packages typically running from a few thousand shillings a month for 10 Mbps up to premium tiers well past 100 Mbps. The catch is that coverage is building-by-building, not street-by-street, so a fibre-ready block is a real amenity.