 wee hub kickstarts the incubation project wee hub kickstarts the incubation project enekesa wed 8172022 1954 by emilly owiti august 7 2022  the wee hub has kickstared the baseline study and partnership engagement it s recently launched women s business incubation project this follows the launch of the program that has enlisted over 600 individual women s enterprises and over 20 business collectives to benefit under the incubation project the data collection exercise began last week and shall provide a baseline from which the women s businesses will be monitored for indicators set to measure the project impact the hub also held talks and technical sessions in a bid to secure strategic partnerships with government agencies that have expertise in the incubation of msmes as well as other stakeholders such as banks and the private sector these partnerships are critical to the success of the project said prof wanjiku kabira the wee hub leader during one of the partnership meetings some of the partners engaged include kenya industrial estates an institution that provides sme support in business incubation including business advisory services and sme credit among other support services the hub also engaged the kenya industrial research and development institution kirdi during a technical session where the biawe incubation project was unpacked the biawe project is a success story in the business incubation sphere and is a great starting point from where critical lessons can be learnt dr mbithi wee hub director research stated participants from the wee hub and kirdi teams engage during the session  prof kabira and dr mbithi of wee hub handover the priority agenda booklet to dr onyuka o kirdi  the women s enterprises enlisted for incubation include the agroprocessing agribusiness in nairobi county posho mill and poultry farming in turkana beekeeping and poultry in kitui cassava and cashew nuts processing in kilifi and kwale transportwomen in tuktuk in mombasa cross border grains traders in busia banana farming and production in meru fish in kisumu and potatoes farming in nyandarua other partners include banks and women s organizations through the wbi projects five main pillars access to credit linkage to information and technology access to markets and networks capacity building and mentorship the project targets to realize the increase in workforce size increase in network the business owner is associated with diversification in terms of products market distribution channels increase annual turnoversales and profit increased capital investment equipment land machines increase in stocks increase in area of business operation space increased awareness of agpo for those enterprises incubated  members of mchanganyiko cbo one of the groups to be incubated under the wbi project  the group runs an education center for preprimary and primary schools as well as a water and sanitation project and catering and hospitality services along karanja road in kibera below is a group photo of the women and the wee hub researchers taken after the interview and that of the sanitation block and    the mchanganyiko cbo sanitation project weehub news standard image  