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KJET

  • KJET Project Environmental Specialist sensitising a BDS cluster on the Grievance Redress Mechanism for the project

  • Driving Growth in the Blue Economy through Targeted MSME Support

  • MSMEs Business Development Skills (BDS) Training in Wajir

  • Boosting textile and apparel growth through MSME support

  • Construction and Building Material Members

  • State Department for Investment

  • Youth participants share a light moment during a break in the Nyamira textile and apparel cluster training

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AJIRA NA UWEKEZAJI

KJET-PROJECT

The Kenya Jobs and Economic Transformation (KJET) Project is a Government of Kenya initiative, supported by the World Bank, designed to unlock private investment, expand market access, and scale sustainable finance to create better jobs under the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda.

Through KJET, Kenya is aligning three inputs investors care about: a stronger and more predictable business environment, targeted support to high-potential MSME clusters, and access to green and sustainable financing instruments for SMEs, that reduce risk and improve returns.

For investors, KJET offers a coordinated entry point into priority value chains where reforms, finance, and market access are being deployed together to accelerate growth and job creation.

KJET-Project is being implemented by two Ministries of Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MCMSME); and Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) under corresponding State Departments of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (SDMSME) and Investments Promotion (SDIP) respectively.

 

Project Development Objective (PDO)

To increase private-sector investment, improve market access, and expand sustainable finance to create and enhance jobs across Kenya.

Our Focus

Business and investment reforms, access to finance and markets.

De-risking investments.

Turning policy reform into bankable investment opportunities.

Translating BETA into investment opportunities creating jobs.

What is on Offer at the KJET-Project

KJET offers investors an integrated investment ecosystem:

  • Policy and regulatory reforms that lower transaction costs and improve predictability
  • Investment facilitation and aftercare to shorten time-to-market
  • Blended and green financing instruments to de-risk MSME and value-chain investments
  • Competitive MSME clusters that are productivity-ready and market-linked
  • Alignment with national priorities on job creation and economic transformation.

 

Value chains pictorial

Edible Oils, Building Materials (Construction), Textiles, Tea, Coffee, Dairy, Leather, Blue Economy and Minerals

Priority Value Chains

KJET Impact

Project Targets

45000

Jobs Created

47

Counties

6800

Women Beneficiaries

12

Value chains

160000000 $

Funds Mobilized

5

Reform Policies