Centre4ED Services

The EMD-Kenya Centre for Enterprise Development (Centre4ED) is certified by the International Trade Centre - Geneva as a national centre of Enterprise Management Development programmes.

Member of a global network…

EMD-Kenya was admitted to the e-Trade Bridge Network as a national centre on 30th November 2005.
Has 26 associates working under the leadership of Andrew Otsieno, a certified Enterprise Management Development Expert.
Our objective is to create internationally competitive enterprises and business management advisers that enterprises are looking for.

Enhancing management, export and e-trade competencies…

• Answering Frequently Asked Questions… Based on the “Trade Secrets” series published by ITC we have established a Knowledge Base for answering frequently asked questions regarding: What it takes to establish and expand export business; How to protect and enforce intellectual property rights in the export market; What to do in terms of quality and standards to sell products abroad; and Why, when, where, and how to use «e».
• Building Business Competitiveness… Based on ITC’s proprietary Business Management System we have developed a modular training programme on “Building Business Competitiveness” covering: Designing competitive strategies; Getting orders; Fulfilling an export order; and Getting paid for an export order.
• And for Business Development Service Providers… we run “Adviser @ Work” workshops on how to become the business management adviser that enterprises are looking for. This hands-on training equips service providers with the capability to diagnose businesses and to develop and deliver management solutions.
• Partnering for Excellence… Our team of enterprise management development experts (certified by ITC) are equipped with the knowledge and skills to: Select the businesses that have the greatest potential to become competitive; Determine their managerial skill requirements and design interventions to meet those needs; Assist enterprises to design competitive strategies; and Help entrepreneurs implement their strategies through consultancy, counselling or training.

And achieving lasting impact…

• At community level - with congregational project leaders… We have been engaged to build the capacity of organizational and project leaders of the Sisters Leadership Development Initiative spurning Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya. This involves a series of trainings over a period of three years in project planning, execution and control, and management performance diagnostics (evaluations) of national centres with funding from Marywood University, America.
• With trade support institutions… We have been contracted by the Export Promotion Council’s USAID/EPC Trade Development Program to undertake export readiness assessments, develop a Guide to Exporting, design accompanying training modules, and pilot the use of the guide/modules.
• At enterprise level… We have provided turn-key consultancy, counselling and training services to five SMEs. These success stories are documented as cases studies and have also been shared widely.
• As a national partner of the International Trade Centre (ITC)… Our achievements include compiling a regional e-preparedness report of East Africa, e-enabling SMEs to create and document success stories, supporting the Export Promotion Council to compile and package trade information into web-based tools, and adapting the generic export fitness checker for use in Kenya. We were also recently engaged to pilot and validate the Gap Analysis and the Self Assessment tools under development by ITC. We are currently engaged in rolling out a comprehensive Advisory Capacities for Export Competitiveness training in Kenya - EMDS/CBI initiative.

Contact us:  EMD-Kenya
Lower Plains Rd off Karen Rd
P.O. Box 1666 Karen 00502 Nairobi Kenya
Phone: +254 20 300 3266 (020 300 3266)
Mobile: +254 733 823970 (0733 823970)
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Website: www.emdkenya.org