Value addition and productivity improvement programme: The overall objective is to promote value-addition and commercialization of resource endowments by small and medium size industries, improve labour and total factor productivity and promote resource efficiency and cleaner production and improve competitiveness at the enterprise level for enhanced value-addition. The programme will be implemented through OVOP, productivity improvement and cleaner production and research development and commercialization.
Branding and Marketing of Kenyan MSME Products: This is aimed at enhancing productivity, quality and competitiveness of MSMEs products through provision of technology, design, product development, standardization, and protection of innovations.
Development of a standards infrastructure: The sector will strengthen the standards infrastructure to meet the rapidly changing consumer needs, preferences and quality requirements which include standardization, metrology, testing and quality management including certification and accreditation.
Enhancement of local content in Government projects: The government will improve local content in all government sponsored projects. Guidelines on the threshold for local content for the projects and programmes will be developed and appropriate amendments made to Public Procurement and Disposal Act 2005.
Energy provision for the manufacturing sector: Energy mapping survey will be conducted with a view of increasing peak energy surplus, and reduce waiting period for power connection.
Establishment of trading houses in export markets: The Export Promotion Council and the Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC) will work together to establish and operationalized trading houses in Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasha and Lumbumbashi commercial hubs), South Sudan (Juba) and United Arab Emirates.
Focus on Home Based Value Addition: The government through PPP will promote home based value addition both at household and community level. This will be implemented through providing appropriate trainings and adoption of new production technologies.
Cooperatives Development: the government will strengthen cooperatives to enhance collective marketing, mobilization of financial resources and technological transfer.
