Kenya Overseas Business Alliance (KOBA)
KOBA is a business and investment based organization whose primary goal is to create and promote businesses and investment opportunities in Kenya within the Diaspora and to overseas investors. The concept of KOBA is a “brain child” idea of Kenyan business entrepreneurs, based in the UK, who are determined to break barriers that have hindered innovative creation of businesses and investment opportunities in Kenya, for and by its people in the Diaspora. The core principal of KOBA is to provide a platform where ordinary Kenyan businessmen and businesswomen can engage and network with the rest of the world, and establish innovative businesses and explore investment opportunities for themselves.
KOBA’s core services are based on a very simple ethos “to create business and investment opportunities and to promote entrepreneurship to the masses at affordable cost”. We believe that most economically excluded individuals or societies in the world can become more competitive, productive and efficient with access to emerging businesses and investment opportunities and also with the use of Information & Communications Technology (ICT) services, that are effective and affordable. KOBA provides information on businesses and investment opportunities in Kenya to many stakeholders (mainly in the Diaspora) including:- major financial institutions, European Community, African governments, embassies, academic institutions, Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs), professionals and ordinary individuals.
Our Vision
A leader in creating business and investment opportunities in Kenya for the Diaspora and other overseas investors.
Our Mission
To provide a platform for exchanging business related information; creating contacts and links; forming business partnerships; networking and balancing any trade relationships between Kenya and it’s partners overseas.
Objectives
KOBA’s aims and objectives include: -
- Promoting and marketing businesses and creating investment opportunities in Kenya to overseas investors and vice-versa.
- Create, harness and co-ordinate strategic business and investment alliances among all stakeholders in Kenya and the Diaspora.
- Co-ordinate and engage Kenyans in the Diaspora to exchange and access relevant business information, contacts, partnerships opportunities and formalise trade with potential investors.
- Participate and act as an advisory body in policy advocacy; business and investment promotion; investment facilitation and investor mentoring in the Diaspora.
- Conduct relevant research and consultancy, review and analyse policies, and engage in governance issues geared towards improving Kenya’s trade relations with overseas investors.
- Promote and provide expertise on emerging Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services and other technologies in Kenya.
- Target and attract investment towards good causes, to increase economic development in deprived or needy communities in Kenya.
