TO50 InBusiness Programme in Kenya

The overall objective of the initiative remains to link micro and small businesses owned by persons with disabilities or jointly with their families and friends to public and private institutions operating in Kenya. Through the business linkages we aim to foster the growth, encourage more persons with disabilities to become entrepreneurs and trigger institutional reforms that facilitate conducive business climate and nurture healthy entrepreneurial ecosystems in which persons with disabilities can participate on an equal basis. Learning from TO40 and TO6 will be integrated into the scale project, which will include: increasing the number of lead businesses and providing them ongoing inclusion support rather than one off training, helping micro-entrepreneurs diversify and adapt, fuller engagement and training of caregivers to sustain lessons and provide broader support to households, addressing self-esteem and self-advocacy as barriers to participation/livelihood opportunities, and clustering business support so it can remain as tailored as possible at reasonable cost.