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"helping Small Business Owners Scale the Steps to Business Success"
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Friday, March 23, 2012

LAUNCH OF THE SMEs PARTNERSHIP CARD FOR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS

Small and Medium Enterprise Support, East Africa (SMES, East Africa), the producers of the SME Handbook (the first ever catalogue of information, products and services for small business owners in Kenya), has now introduced a Partnership Card.

The SMEs Partnership Card will ensure that its’ holders enjoy subsidized fees on products and services at various service providers outlets. SMES-EA invites organizations to partner towards accessing affordable services and products within Kenya and the East African region by awarding the SMEs Partnership card holders a 15% discount on their products and services.

For more information on the modalities of enrolling into the Partnership Card program, kindly contact the undersigned.


Lydiah Njoroge
Programmes Director
Small and Medium Enterprise Support, East Africa

Lydiah Njoroge
+254-721-235-985
info@smeseastafrica.com

Business Advocacy Fund (BAF) holds a Breakfast media roundtable on business partnership in Kenya

Business Advocacy Fund in conjunction with the African Woman and Child Feature Service and the Kenya Editor’s Guild held a breakfast meeting on Wednesday 14th 2012 at Intercontinental Hotel

The aim of the breakfast was to have a roundtable discussion with the journalists and business writers on the status of business journalism in Kenya and together agree on a set of initiatives which the Business Advocacy Fund might support to enhance business journalism in Kenya and also help the skills of journalists reporting on business environment issues and how they affect overall development and also the realization of Vision 2030.

Launched in 2006, the Business Advocacy Fund is working to enable a wide range of private sector business membership organizations (BMOs), trade unions, civil society organizations (CSOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), research organizations and others to engage with the government in processes leading to a sustainable improvement in the business environment in Kenya-- thereby creating jobs and economic growth needed to reduce poverty.

The meeting was addressed by Mr. Richard Muteti, CEO in the MSE Sector in Kenya who is also the Regional Project Manager of the East Africa Jua Kali Exhibitions and a senior representative from KEPSA and Clive Davis- the CEO of Business Advocacy Fund.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

IU RCED and EABC holds discussions on the roll-out of the MSME Mentorship Programme in the EAC region

IU Regional Center for Enterprise Development (RCED) holds discussions with the East Africa Business Council and the SMES, East Africa on the regional roll out of the MSME Mentorship Programme. The meeting was held in Arusha on 8th March 2012.
The above discussions were aimed at supporting growth oriented Small Businesses and create more jobs and businesses in the East African region.

The initiative has developed a system of training and qualifying business mentors/ advisors who will provide support to the many firms operating in both the formal and informal economy in the East African Community region (EAC) in order to contribute to more sustainable enterprise development.

The role of the trained business mentors is to generate advice and provide technical support on growth opportunities and of possibilities of financial and other support services on a regular basis to entrepreneurs – and especially young entrepreneurs.

The main Goal of the mentorship programme is to develop a critical mass of Business Mentors contributing to the growth of sustainable Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the EAC