Road to Growth
Growth-stage women founders of registered SMEs facing structural or financial barriers to growth.
Explore programmeOur Work
Our Portfolio
Programmes designed to help enterprises and cooperatives grow across Kenya and East Africa.
Road to Markets
Established women-led MSMEs in Kenya, operating 3+ years, scaling their geographic or digital footprint.
Explore programmeSheConnects
Rural women micro-entrepreneurs and women in trade in Isiolo and Marsabit counties.
Explore programmeCASHA
Unemployed pastoralist youth and young women aged 18–35, including refugees and persons with disabilities, across 15 Kenyan ASAL counties.
Explore programmeMifugo ni Mali
Pastoralist communities, Farmer Producer Organisations and livestock cooperatives in Garissa, Isiolo, Samburu, Lamu and Tana River.
Explore programmeLIFT-NK
Vulnerable women, youth and refugees in extreme poverty in forest-adjacent areas and refugee settlements in Northern Kenya.
Explore programmeKuza Jamii
Ultra-poor and vulnerable pastoralist households, women, youth and refugees.
Explore programmeSEED
Unemployed pastoralist youth and young women aged 18–34 in Marsabit and Isiolo, with a strict 50/50 gender balance.
Explore programmeInvestor Readiness: Circular Economy
Small and growing businesses and green SMEs in waste management, recycling and the circular economy.
Explore programmeInvestor Readiness for Women
Growth-oriented African women running established SMEs who want to scale.
Explore programmeRoad to Leadership
Growth-oriented Kenyan women entrepreneurs and SME owners moving from day-to-day operations into strategic business leadership.
Explore programmePalladium · USAID
High-growth agribusinesses (processors, aggregators, input suppliers) in livestock, dairy, horticulture and clean energy, with an emphasis on women- and youth-led enterprises; also local banks and financial institutions.
Explore programmeSME Loop
75 micro, small and medium enterprises and young enterprises in Kajiado and Machakos, focused on youth-led businesses.
Explore programmeBusiness Scouts
Established manufacturing SMEs in Kenya and Uganda in food/agri-processing and cosmetics/beauty, ready to automate or expand regionally.
Explore programmeVillage Capital BDS
A cohort of 10 rural-impacting enterprises (aggregators, off-grid solar, last-mile distributors) and the enterprise support organisations that serve them.
Explore programmeACDI/VOCA Livestock Markets
56 selected SMEs and livestock markets: veterinary suppliers, fodder producers, aggregators and Livestock Market Associations.
Explore programmeNTF III · IT & ITES
28 Kenyan and 25 Ugandan tech entrepreneurs (software developers, BPOs, digital start-ups) plus corporate buyers, telcos and tier-1 banks.
Explore programmeInvestor Readiness
Growth-stage SMEs across all sectors in Kenya raising commercial, impact or equity capital.
Explore programmeExport Readiness
Growth-stage women-led SMEs and female founders with stable domestic traction, scaling into regional or international markets.
Explore programmeWebinar Series
Growth-stage SMEs, mainly women entrepreneurs, institutionalising their internal operating structures.
Explore programmeHerVenture
Women micro-entrepreneurs.
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