STRATEGIES |
ACTIVITIES |
| 1. Ensure speedy enactment of an Investment Code that brings stability
and predictability in the investment environment |
A)
Ensuring that the Investment
Code is enacted through lobbying and dialogue
B)
Publicising the Code amongst
stakeholders |
| 2. To recommend policies that will enable IPC attain world-class standards
that are measurable and monitorable |
A)
Liaise with leading IPAs
B)
Adopt recommendations of
the annual World Investment Report
C)
Surfing through WAIPA websites
to obtain best practices in policy issues pertaining
to investment |
| 3. To develop a state of the art Resource Centre to facilitate informed
research and related services |
A) Produce and acquire information materials |
| 4. Package and maintain
desirable information for stakeholders |
A)
Collect, collate and analyse
information and produce promotional materials
B)
Preparation of Investors
Guide |
| 5. Engage in continuous dialogue with stakeholders by embarking on
an aggressive investment policy advocacy campaign locally
and abroad |
A) Organize policy workshops
B)
Establishing linkages with
other research and policy institutions to identify policy
areas that need research
C)
Lobby the government to
adopt recommended investment policy proposals |
| 6. Optimise benefits
of regional integration/multilateral arrangement initiatives
to Kenya |
A)
Play a leading role in these
fora with respect to investment matters |
| 7. Increase retention
and expansion of investments through targeted incentives
for already existing companies |
A)
Propose and recommend customised
incentives for investors |
STRATEGIES |
ACTIVITIES |
| 1. Create and increase
investor awareness of Kenya’s
investment climate locally and internationally |
A)
Disseminate Investors Guide
and other promotional material
B)
Liase with Kenyan embassies
as regards marketing Kenya
C) Collaborate with foreign embassies in Kenya
D)
Organise local and international
seminars, workshops and conferences
E)
Open overseas offices in
strategic regions i.e. North America, Europe and Asia |
| 2.
Target specific industries
by encouraging partnerships between TNCs and local companies
to provide capacity building |
A)
Identify, select and target
companies.
B)
Encourage partnerships with
local SMEs to build capacity |
| 3.
Highlight and disseminate
information on investment opportunities in Kenya
via print and electronic media
|
A)
Use highly interactive website
to highlight available services and opportunities to
investors
B)
Utilise modern print and
electronic media to disseminate investment information
to the market |
| 4.
Create and strengthen linkages
between IPC and other stakeholders for marketing initiatives |
A)
Work with other IPAs in
the region for joint marketing of the region as a unit
|
| 5.
Maintaining professionalism
and training of staff for higher productivity |
A)
Identification of training
needs |
| 6. Undertake publicity campaigns aimed at enhancing the Centre’s corporate
image |
A)
Create a rapport with the mass media
B) Production of gift
items
C) Receiving investment
delegations and facilitating their stay/appointments
D) Initiate outdoor
advertisement in strategic areas
|
STRATEGIES |
ACTIVITIES |
| 1.
Prepare an investor road
map to enhance transparency in the approval and licensing
process |
A)
Finalise the draft road
map earlier prepared, by IPC and other stakeholders
B)
Ensure projects are approved
within 4 weeks |
| 2.
Maintain a data bank of
joint venture and investment opportunities |
A)
Develop a format for presentation
of joint venture applications and identified investment
opportunities
B)
Organise workshops for dissemination
of information |
| 3.
Facilitate training of small
business entrepreneurs to catalyse business creation |
A)
Identify, select and develop
appropriate training materials
B)
Organise training in 4 locations
annually and provide necessary follow up |
| 4.
Tracking investment projects
approved/assisted by IPC to monitor their performance,
concerns and impact in the national economy. |
|
| 5.
Formation of regional investor
clubs to strengthen linkages between IPC and stakeholders
to enhance exchange of ideas and experiences |
Identification
and recruitment of regional investor club members |
| 6. Maintaining professionalism and training of staff for higher productivity |
Identification
of training needs |
| 7.
Offer business advisory
services to facilitate viable investment decisions |
Create
a data bank to assist in offering business advisory
services |
| 8.
Facilitate the revival and
rehabilitation of collapsed or closed projects to enhance
capacity utilisation |
Identify
and classify collapsed and or closed projects sectorwise,
investigate and record reasons for collapse or closure |
| 9.
Creation of district/provincial
investment committees |
Contacting
relevant authorities and expounding on objectives of
investment committees |
