IDinsight Partnership Purpose a) To develop a detailed understanding of how the program is designed to operate, assess whether it is performing according to policies, identify organizational barriers to program effectiveness and recommend good practices. b)...

Other Partnering Institutions 1. State Department of Crop Development & Agricultural Research: for training in various agricultural value chains. To date over 22,000 women have been trained. 2. State Department of Cooperatives: for sensitization on formation of women owned...

Test USIU-Africa alumna speaks to youth from the Itanya Youth Network By the Alumni Relations Office Photo: ITANYA Caption: The trainees and the facilitators show off their vision boards at the end of the training session. Photo: Courtesy. Daphne Mukami...

Our Strategic Plan The Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) was established vide Legal Notice No. 147: Government Financial Management (Women Enterprise Fund) Regulations, 2007 with the core mandate of women economic empowerment. The object and purpose are to provide loans...

Capacity Building The Fund achieves capacity building of women entrepreneurs through the volunteerism concept. The volunteers are based at the constituency level and their roles include recruiting women, training them and monitoring their projects and loan...

Market Support & Linkages Market support is critical for the growth and general success of women owned enterprises in Kenya. Many businesses with immense potential have failed due to inability to access the right markets for their products and services. Two of the Fund’s...

From Housewives To Dependable Horticulture Farmers - Machakos Town This is the story of Madaraka Self Help Group which was formed and registered as a chama in the year 2008 by women from Kenya, Machakos County, Machakos Town Constituency, Kimutwa Location, Konza Sub-location. Most women here depended on their...

Tushibe Mtama Women Group This group is located in Nakuru, Rongai constituency. They took the first loan of Kshs.50, 000 in 2009 which they used to buy an oven and established their business of baking cookies, buns and cakes from sweet potatoes flour and tubers. Note they...

Twihehinya Widows Group This group was founded by the widowed women in the year 2007.It has a total membership of 15 women. The members came together and decided to form a group since they had common challenges in life. They believed that supporting one another through...