ASSEK has entered into a partnership agreement with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), on a project termed as the ESO Digitization Project. The project began in November 2021.
We officially launched the ESO Mapping Exercise on the 29th of March 2022. The first phase of this project has seen the Association through an external Consultant CediA Africa, carry out stakeholder meetings in Kisumu, Coastal Region, Nakuru Region and Nairobi Region. Afterwhich the needs assessment exercise was done by different hub representatives participating in a survey.
Project Objectives
The project objective is to build the capacity of member organizations to be able to deliver services to entrepreneurs within their network so as to be able to close the gaps on access to knowledge , access to investors and access to market through digitization of their processes in light of the COVID 19 pandemic.
10 month project to ‘Building Startups Post-COVID 19 Resilience by Investing in ESOs in Kenya’.
The key projects areas of support include:
- Mapping of the Kenyan ESOs needs and gaps to start, run and manage a sustainable hub
- Roll out capacity building workshops / masterclass to close the identified gaps and challenges
- Support in the digitization of their processes to ensure they can increase their growth and impact.
- Develop a knowledge base for the best practices in digitization that other ESOs outside of the ASSEK network can implement.