Opinion

January 22, 2022

Opportunities For Kenya’s Economic Regional Blocs Under AFCFTA

The paper examines Africa continental free trade area (AFCTFA) ; its objectives, challenges being addressed, available opportunities and how Kenya through its regional economic blocks can […]
January 5, 2022

Kenya SME COVID 19 Resilience: Support through informal sector social protection framework

SMEs in Kenya are the bedrock of the economy accounting for 33 percent of GDP, employ over 30 percent of the population close to 15 million […]
September 17, 2021

Building Successful Startups | The role of policies in making and breaking a venture in the African ecosystem

We are having a session today convened by Afrilabs where we will interrogate the shape & form startup ecosystem policy should take cognizant of the unique […]
September 13, 2021

Kenya Economic Survey 2021: SMEs Implications and Policy Options

Kenya’s economy experienced the full brunt of COVID 19 underpinned on the containment measures both domestically and Internationally. The containment measures in Kenya manifested as; Ban […]
August 31, 2021

Developing Kenyan SMEs through linkage to Global Value chains

Despite the continued importance of SMEs to the Kenyan economy; supportive policy intervention towards the sector continues to be sub optimal at best and downright wrong […]
August 2, 2021

Bottom Up Economy | Cutting through the semantics to Kenya’s Economic Reality

There has been a lot of debate about the economic model fronted by a presidential candidate termed as bottom up economy an instance where economic growth […]
May 26, 2021

Review of World Bank” The long shadow of informality” Implication to Kenya’s SME policy environment

The world Bank recently published a report on informal economy {https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/publication/informal-economy } The report contextualizes informal sector; offering definition, topography of the sector among other parameters with […]
November 19, 2020

Supporting Kenya SMEs through access to COVID-19 Business support information

SMEs are the backbone of the Kenyan economy employing over 30 percent of the working population, contribute 33 percent to GDP and constitute 98 percent of […]
October 14, 2020

Venture Building | Resilience’s strategy for SME support in Kenya

Kenya SMEs play an important role in the socio-economic development contribution 33 percent to GDP, employing over 30 percent of the population and constituting 98 percent […]