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Digital Support Needs for MSMEs in Busia County

The goal of this research was to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the factors influencing MSME growth in Busia County, Kenya. Through a mixed-methods approach integrating quantitative and qualitative methodologies, it seeks to offer a holistic understanding of the MSME landscape in Busia County and provide actionable recommendations for policymakers, business support organizations, and MSME stakeholders.

Why Border Hub?

We provide a safe, youth-friendly and gender inclusive social and educational space for women and young people to access information, learn, innovate, and build their enterprises

Basic digital skills and web development training

We provide basic digital skills and web development training to adolescents and young people at the border. 

Supported by UNDP in partnership with LakeHub, we conducted a 6-months program seeking to bridge the digital gender divide by equipping young women with digital skills in front and back-end web development,design thinking, entrepreneurship, graphic design, and people’s skills.

We are currently having a cohort of 50 young women trained and supported in mentoring our current participants of web development training. We conduct hackathons twice every month bringing together the Tech community to design innovative solutions to different issues affecting the community. 

We held the first ever Tech Innovation challenge during International Women’s Day 2023 wherewithal 10 young women with outstanding innovations on gender equality issues 

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The program is designed to support and empower youth and women entrepreneurs

This innovative program provides a comprehensive range of support, guidance, and resources to help these entrepreneurs turn their ideas into successful ventures. We provide opportunities where entrepreneurs engage and pitch their businesses to local investors. 

We support businesses to access entrepreneurship training, business development services and low interest loans, we largely support informal cross-border traders. We work closely with financial institutions who train entrepreneurs on financial information 

We conduct business and digital hackathons every month; bringing together leading social enterprises,software engineers and young entrepreneurs to a platform where they can identify problems in their communities, develop solutions through technology, define a business model, pitch and create a revenue generation model. 

We are currently supporting a cohort of 50 women and youth who are going through the 6-month program where we provide follow up business mentorship and coaching.

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Community Engagements

We provide a safe youth friendly space for meaningful youth engagement with relevant stakeholders conversations that matter to them. This includes SRHR, Education, Technology, Business, Policy Influencing,civic participation, role of young people in peace building processes. 

We do these both online and offline twice every week where we bring key stakeholders, youth actors, government and professionals to engage our youth on different issues. 

We engage up to 300 young people every month through our dialogues and community engagement.

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Holistic mentorship to form four leavers

This is a holistic mentorship to form four leavers who are transitioning to the next phase of training Colleges, TVETs and Universities. We provide the form four leavers with career mentorship, employability skills, Behaviour Change, Digital, Entrepreneurship and Life Skills programs . 

We have so far graduated 300 form four graduates since we started the program last year most of whom have joined universities and tertiary institutions pursuing courses of their choice

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Our Target Groups

We intentionally choose to work with women, youth and persons with disabilities in all their diversities because there is a necessity to address the needs and the challenges they are exposed to at the border town of Busia.

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Our specific programming is intentionally working towards creating opportunities and spaces where women and girls can thrive socio-economically and be able to participate in conversations that influence friendly policies. View Details

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Supporting adolescents and persons with disabilities with inclusive learning environments, ensuring equitable access to education and personal growth opportunities. View Details

About Border Hub

The Border Hub is a youth and women-led community development organization formed in 2018 and formally registered in 2020. We are domiciled in Busia Kenya with operations in western Kenya and programmatic outflows to Busia Uganda.

We provide a safe, youth-friendly and gender inclusive social and educational space for women and young people to access information, learn, innovate, and build their enterprises. We expose them to relevant right information on policies, regulations and other issues that affect them such as career, business, sexualreproductive health, GBV, and gender programming through the weekly dialogue programs, exhibitions,films, and other existing projects alongside partners. The Hub serves as an incubation of labor skills and enterprise development.

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