NAIROBI, Kenya, July 21, 2025 – The Micro and Small Enterprises Authority (MSEA), in partnership with SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, has concluded a collection of coverage consciousness boards geared toward educating entrepreneurs in Uasin Gishu, Kisumu, and Nakuru counties on key authorities insurance policies and enterprise help companies obtainable to Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).
The initiative, a part of the third part of the Supporting Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Development (SEED) program, targets early-stage companies—significantly these led by youth and girls—throughout varied sectors together with agriculture, digital innovation, and the round financial system.
According to MSEA, the boards are supposed to shut the knowledge hole that forestalls many small enterprises from leveraging present authorities frameworks and companies.
“The purpose is to demystify what completely different establishments supply in order that MSMEs can perceive the right way to profit,” stated Tabitha Gicheru, MSEA’s Senior Assistant Director.
Participants have been launched to obtainable applied sciences, shared equipment, and different companies at Constituency Industrial Development Centres (CIDCs).
Organizers say the periods additionally served as suggestions channels to tell future policymaking and implementation.
The SEED program, by its Inclusive Youth, Business and Agriculture (IYBA-SEED) initiative, can be supporting the event of a Policy Advocacy Toolkit. This device is anticipated to equip MSMEs with the information wanted to have interaction in coverage dialogues and advocate for reforms aligned with their wants.
SNV’s Project Manager, Nduta Ndirangu, stated the initiative goes past consciousness by strengthening collaboration between MSMEs and private and non-private sector establishments.
The program can be aligned with the federal government’s efforts to evaluation the MSME Policy 2025 and replace the MSE Act to enhance the regulatory atmosphere for small companies.
MSEA Deputy Director for Legal Services, Mary Chege, famous that reforms are underway to supply a extra enabling atmosphere that helps micro enterprises transition into formal, scalable companies.
