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Browsing: East and West Africa Limited (CEWA Ltd)
Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) in collaborating with Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) and other organizations have partnered to provide support for women running small and medium-sized business to standardize and improve the quality of their products.
The partnerships has seen 13,500 beneficiaries trained by WEF receive technical guidance to improve their products ensuring they meet industry standards.
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Once the products are standardized, the women are eligible to apply for certification, which the Fund pays a subsidized rate of Ksh5,800.
As a result, their products will qualify for the Kebs Diamond mark of quality which allows them to access local and international markets.
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“A key mandate for WEF is to provide business support services including linkages for the women entrepreneurs to improve on the quality of …