Strategic Partners


Industrial Development Bank (IDB): IDB is mandated with the provision of medium and long term finance and accompanying financial and corporate advisory services to medium and large scale industrial enterprises and the provision of working capital, machinery, finance and export related banking facilities and the provision of commercial banking services.

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Investment Promotion Center (IPC)

IPC is mandated to promote local and foreign industrial investments in Kenya by providing information on opportunities, policies, incentives and procedures; and advising the Government on the changes necessary to enhance the investment climate.

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KEBS is mandated to ensure that technical standards through scientific metrology and regulations do not serve as technical barriers to trade and make available to all Kenyans information on standards and technical regulations from the world over

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Kenya Industrial Property Institute (KIPI): To administer industrial property rights (IPR), provide technological information and training in IPR, and promote inventiveness and innovativeness for accelerated technological, industrial and socio-economic development.

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Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM): KAM is Kenya's leading representative organization for industry that unites industrialists, serves as a common voice for Kenya's manufacturing sector, and provides an essential link for cooperation, dialogue and understanding with the Government. KAM's mission is to promote competitive local manufacturing in liberalised markets.

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Industrial & Commercial Development Corporation (ICDC): ICDC Investment Co Ltd is the largest quoted investment Company in Kenya. The Company was incorporated in 1967 with the express objective of facilitating the acquisition by indigenous Kenyan investors of shares in profitable companies, that they would not otherwise be able to do in their own capacities.

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Export Processing Zones Authority (EPZ): Export Processing Zones are part of the Export Development Program (EDP) being undertaken by the Government to transform the economy from import subsitution to a path of export led growth. EPZs are designed to further integrate Kenya into the global supply chain and attract export-oriented investments in the zones, thus achieving its economic objectives of job creation, diversification and expansion of exports, increase in productive investments, technology transfer and creation of backward linkages between the zones and the domestic economy.

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Kenya Industrial Reasearch and Development Institute (KIRDI): Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI) is a national research institute established mandated to undertake multidisciplinary research and development in industrial and allied technologies. The institute’s core objectives are handled by the Research and Development (R&D) and Technology Transfer departments. The major R&D departments are the engineering, energy and environment, ICT, leather and textiles, and food technology divisions. KIRDI has developed over 40 technologies in these fields. KIRDI offers consultancy and capacity building in prototype development, reverse engineering common manufacturing facilities and business incubation in order to facilitate the SMEs’ vertical growth, entry into new markets and promotion of new value added products.

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