Equity Group hosts USA delegation to boost Trade, Investments linkages in Kenya

• Over 500 local entrepreneurs, MSMEs and corporates are expected to engage with the visiting delegates from the US

• The trade mission is among the many tools Equity Bank is using to accelerate the implementation of the Africa Recovery and Resilience Plan

This trade mission follows the Kenya – DRC and US – Tanzania Trade Mission that were organized by Equity Group in to explore investment opportunities in November 2021 and last week respectively following various strategic high level state engagements.

Earlier this year, Equity Group launched the Africa Recovery and Resilience Plan, a socio-economic transformation plan that Equity has seeded with a USD 7 billion fund with the aim of impacting 100 million people within the African continent through its financial and social impact initiatives and reaching 5 million MSMEs and 25 million individual customers, to create 50 million jobs.

The plan has seen the Group champion investments by private sector in the agricultural and extractive sectors, manufacturing and logistics, trade and investment, the MSME sector, social and environmental transformation and the promotion of a technology-enabled economy in order to support financial empowerment and wealth creation.