Absa Bank Kenya, for its part, has trained over 200,000 youth since the programme's inception in 2015. Absa's Ready-to-Work initiative is a free training curriculum that provides young people with work experience, people skills, money skills, and entrepreneurial skills that ...
The Public Benefits Organizations (PBO) Act, passed into law in 2013, was meant to fulfil this need. It aimed to establish transparent and efficient regulation of civil space in Kenya, with clear rules on registration and incentives for organisations engaged in public ...
CMA also undertakes county initiatives in which we reach out to potential investors. We conduct one on one forums which target select group leaders who act as ambassadors in their various communities. By doing this, we not only increase uptake on pooled funds by retail and institutional invest...
In Kenya today, more than 50 percent of hospital admissions are due to lifestyle diseases. The fact that a quarter of the Kenyan population has elevated blood pressure but half of these are not aware leaves millions of Kenyans untreated and can be considered a ticking time bo...
Her point of divergence (from passion to business) came in 2015 when they came back to Kenya and officially set up the business from a guest room in her apartment. She wanted the Kiswahili word Pambo in her assemblage of business names. Her children were learning rhyming words t...
It is noteworthy that Kenya has no shortage of policy regulations. However, the onus is on stakeholders to collaborate and ensure technology in education reaches its full potential. As the CEO and Co-Founder of EdTech East Africa, Jennifer Cotter-Otieno put it: “No one person will make...
Speak to anyone on the streets of Nairobi and they will tell you they know of at least one skilled youth who is seeking employment but is unable to get decent work. A report released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics in 2018 revealed that nine out of every 10 unemployed K...
Mr Kilemi said under this scheme, farmers will be aggregated into groups and linked to co-operatives to give them bargaining power when it comes to dictating sell terms. Read:Why Kenya's maize import plan is facing headwinds “We want to aggregate farmers into co-operatives so t...
In more developed economies such as the USA, China, and parts of Europe, it is very easy to get patents for anything that is innovative, because the government is aware that such products could be revolutionary. To get a patent in Kenya, however, an innovator has...
Kenya averted a pile-up of fuel volumes in the wake of Uganda’s decision to directly buy the commodity after renegotiating the government-backed importation by three Gulf oil majors. Daniel Kiptoo, the director-general of the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra), said Kenya neg...