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Kiringai Kamau
WillPower Incubation and Research
Value Chain Analyst/President
Mission: 
To create sustainable income generating initiatives for smallholder farmers by evolving institutional mechanisms that promote production->processing->payment->invesment systems through technology adoption

Kiringai is an Agricultural Products Value Chain Analyst, a Commonwealth Certified Company Director and a trainer in corporate governance; he sits on the board of a number of companies. He is also a development consultant using his strength in corporate governance in public and private organizations to promote probity in the management of such institutions. He is well versed with the integration of ICT and Value addition to community owned SME institutions at the grassroots level. He spearheads the integration of agricultural value chains optimization with value addition and cottage industry development for which he has launched an Africa-wide NGO, VACID Africa, to promote value addition and cottage industry development. He is skilled in community based financial systems delivery through microfinance and cooperatives and has designed a national community finance model which was adopted by the Kenya Parliament to become a Constituency Development Fund for Kenya. He has also designed the mechanism for the creation of public funds starting with the Water Trust Fund, the Youth Enterprise Development Fund, and Women Development Fund. His value chain focus has culminated to the creation of Value Addition and Cottage Industry Development (VACID –Africa) Initiative for which he is the Board Chair.

Kiringai is a process consultant and ICT-Business integration expert currently working to create a Kenya-wide e-marketplace website which will promote international trading for African value added produce.

As international consultant in SMEs, Kiringai is always keen in the promotion of governance systems that deliver support to all stakeholders. He registered as a CGAP IS Fund Consultant promoting the use of ICT in the microfinance sector. He has offered consulting in Donor Programme formulation that seeks to mainstream SME in their effort to focus on pro-poor initiatives. He is a social entrepreneur in his own right with his exploits visibly demonstrated in the businesses that he has founded that touch on start-ups/incubatees, communities, and rural development at www.willpower.co.ke and www.octagon.co.ke.

Where I Practice: 
VACID Africa in Kenya/WillPower Incubation and Research
Question I’d Like to Discuss: 
Value Chains in general with agricultural value chains focus
Consultant: 
yes
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