Elisha Bwatuti, the Programs Coordinator, Kenya SBDC

The Kenya SBDC Program will offer MSMEs support by facilitating access to finance, provision of business advisory services, providing trade/market information and exploring policy innovations. Additionally, the program will ensure the inclusion of women-led and youth-led MSMEs. Furthermore, it will set up Development Centers in the Prosper Counties. To ensure ownership, self-reliance and transparency, the Program will be people-centric ensuring it is led, planned and managed by the MSMEs. The project takes the best practices in business development and advisory services from the U.S Small Business Development Center (SBDC) model and transfers them to a local network of county-based business centres. The project also builds linkages between Kenyan and American MSMEs to transfer best practices which will help Kenyan MSMEs to effectively take advantage of local and export market opportunities, have improved access to finance, apply market analytics, and benefit from a supportive business-enabling policy environment at the county level. This will strengthen Kenya’s economic competitiveness and generate positive impacts for its citizens.

The Kenya SBDC seeks to establish a long lasting relationship with MSMEs.

 

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