Kenya’s textile and apparel sector has the potential to play a key role in anchoring the country’s deeper movement into middle income status and in serving as a source of gainful employment for its fast growing, young population. As a manufactured good, it offers opportunities for increased value capture and streamlined trade logistics and for the building of skills and experience from the factory floor to management level. Based on these foundations, it therefore serves as a potential gateway to other manufactured goods, offering opportunities for Kenya to capture an increasing share of global trade and...

Kenya has a proven track record in attracting and retaining world class apparel manufacturers who have made great success of their investments in the country. For the last five years, companies located here, have positioned Kenya as the largest exporter of apparel to the USA under AGOA. In 2019, textile and apparel exports to AGOA from Kenyan-based companies were valued at over US$450 million. There’s not just one but many reasons companies choose to invest in Kenya. Its this combination of factors that offer a compelling location for operational and commercial success. In addition to the fundamental requirements for efficient...

This report shows that 2019 was a record-breaking year for our sector. It reinforces off-grid solar as a major part of the solution to bring modern energy into off-grid households to power light and appliances in the most remote areas around the world. Over 8.5 million off-grid solar lighting products and 1.2 million off-grid solar appliances were sold in 2019 by a growing number of companies participating in this data collection...

This policy position paper presents an analysis of key policy constraints and proposed positions for the Manufacturing Sector. These policy constraints were identified in a preceding policy scoping report that involved in-depth desktop research and review of documentation from public sources informing the key statistics in the report. An analysis of existing manufacturing policies was carried out, highlighting priorities and current gaps, as well as an analysis of the commercial landscape, which underscores the sector’s opportunities and risks. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to present an objective analysis of the manufacturing sector policy landscape and propose policy recommendations...

The East African Community (EAC), made up of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda, represents one the smaller sub-regions in SSA in value terms, both economically and from a pharmaceutical viewpoint. The total value of EAC's pharmaceutical market in 2017 was just USD2.1bn, which corresponds to 17% of SSA’s total medicine expenditure that year. Forecasts show that the market would nearly double to yield a market size of USD4.1bn by 2027, at which point the EAC will still represent a relatively minor proportion of SSA’s pharmaceutical market (19%).