Market Assessment

The purpose of the study was to analyze the factors affecting sustainable growth of local pharmaceutical manufacturing companies by determining and establishing their influence on sustainable growth of these firms in Kenya. The review of related literature identified these factors as competition, government regulations, international regulations and the cost of production. The study adopted a cross sectional research design and targeted 32 local firms registered with the Pharmacy Poisons Board in 2016. Data was collected using a questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Pearson’s correlation and regression analysis were used to test the influence of predictor variables on...

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%). 

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...

Cotton-textile and apparel (CTA) sector is arguably one of the industries with the potential to absorb skilled, semi-skilled, and non-skilled workers within its chain of production. This paper explores the CTA sector value chain in Kenya and specifically aims to pinpoint the segments of the CTA value chain that have the potential to contribute to job creation; identify the key constraints to growth in the CTA value chain; and to identify labour skills requirements to reach the employment potential. The global value chain analysis was employed in the value chain mapping with major nodes of the value chain being identified...

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) are abundant in Kenya comprising eighty percent of businesses, but their contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) remains limited. Increasing MSME productivity will drive economic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic over the short term, and has the potential to unleash sustained economic growth in time. However, MSME productivity remains constrained by numerous barriers including insufficient access to finance. Scaling supply chain finance (SCF) has the potential to expand access to financing for MSMEs, particularly small and medium sized enterprises in well-integrated supply chains. This IFC assessment...