3GF Africa Regional Conference 2015
Partnership Market Place
Kenya Climate Innovation Centre
When:
Where:
Speaker(s):
Wednesday, 13 May, 17:00-18:30
Tent in the fountain area
Edward Mungai, Chief Executive Officer, Kenya Climate Innovation Center, [email protected],
www.kenyacic.org
What is the green growth challenge you are trying to overcome? What are the key barriers to change?
Kenya Climate Innovation Center is out to provide holistic, country driven support to accelerate the development, deployment and transfer of locally relevant climate and clean energy technologies
What is your partnership approach / hypothesis?
To leverage on strategic partnerships based on a clear recognition of the value-added in sharing strengths with other
institutions to achieve outcomes that will benefit the clean-tech sector in Kenya.
Who are the partners involved and how? Who are the other stakeholders?
Key Partners
• Consortium Partners: PWC, GVEP, Strathmore University, KIRDI the team that initiated KCIC
• Nation Media Group – Media publicity and pipeline through Next Big Thing
• Access2Innovation: Technology transfer and Networking
• Netfund: Pipeline and Publicity through the Green Innovation Award
• WIPO Green: Technology linkage and access to information
• KARI: Access to testing facilities and access to information
• UNITAS: Access to finance
• Ministries of Energy , Environment and Natural Resources – creating enabling environment
• Kenya Bureau of Standard: development of standards
Other Stakeholders
• Pipeline partners – these are organisations working with KCIC to help the centre find high quality business for incubation at the KCIC
• Service support partners – these are institutions engaging with KCIC in order to provide clients with high quality
services e.g. advisory, facilities among other.
• Financial partners – This are private sector, donors, governments providing resources for investments in cleantech
businesses
• Capacity development, knowledge sharing and education partners – these are institutions, networks or organisations that are largely engaging with KCIC to strengthen the capacity of clients and staff
• Policy link and facilitative partners – organisations (local, regional or global) that influence or decide on policy and
regulations in sectors that KCIC is working in.
• Media partners – These are partners providing KCIC with visibility and brand extension advantages
What are your partnership objectives and what achievements have there been to date?
• Enhance client’s service delivery of support provided across the five KCIC pillars. KCIC has been able to deliver the
best services and even recognized as the “Most Promising Business Incubator 2014” by the University Business Incubators (UBI) Index.
• Attain sustainability the KCIC. Key partnerships have expressed interest to support KCIC in its journey of supporting
innovative clean tech solutions in Kenya
• Contribute to policy and institutional transformation as appropriate to create conditions and practices that support
the cleantech sector. Worked with other stakeholder to lobby for removal of VAT on solar product, Worked with
other stakeholders on number of standards, solar products, biogas, bioenergy, small and mini hydro
What is the potential of this partnership to achieve impact and scale?
With a shared vision this partnership will achieve impact and scale as demonstrated by the achievement of the previous
partnerships.