The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) national president Richard Ngatia has pledged to strengthen the chamber chapters to make then champions of growth and improve the dignity of County chambers.
While outlining his manifesto, Ngatia, who is seeking a second term as the KNCCI president during the upcoming june 2023 KNCCI national chamber elections, said that his leadership will empower chapters to ensure that they become champions of growth and leaders of success.
Ngatia said that he shall set up systems, processes and policies that keep teams accountable for diversity and inclusion.
“In my next term, we seek to create awareness, align, mobilize and take action to ensure growth in membership. We shall also empower and strengthen our chamber chapters to ensure our leaders are champions of growth and leaders of success,” Ngatia said in his message to members.
“We shall improve the dignity of county chambers to ensure we have a good working environment for all our offices. We shall set up systems, processes and policies that keep teams accountable for diversity and inclusion,” Ngatia added.
He also pledged to set up an annual award and merit system to recorgnise high performance among chamber chapters and counties.
In his first term as KNCCI boss, 15 projects were initiated covering business financing for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) where 6,825 youth led MSMEs and 9,699women led MSMEs received support which includes the Ksh 500 million Covid-19 resilience and recovery fund which provided creditto MSMEs as well as the Ksh 750 million which was a feeder tree facilitation programme. In total, there was over 1.4 billion shillings in support reaching over 83,000 beneficiaries.
Additionally, the Ngatia-led administration initiated systematic training system for members and institutional support system supported by KNCCI partners to strengthen accountability, transparency through effective communication, openness and a robust system of monitering program at national and county level.
To achieve this, Ngatia promises to review the chamber organogram to include a programs department working with the secretariat and the county level and facilitate inter-county knowledge sharing.
Ngatia plans to increase the chamber membership to over 50.000 direct members up from the 2,200 members and over 2 million indirect members.
The chamber revenue returns grew by 20 percent in 2022 and according to Ngatia’s plan, this can be further escalated.
Ngatia is running for re-election alongside his running mate Abdulwalli Sharrif.
