Edith Orego, MBA

Project Lead – CBI Kenya Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) Project As a Project Lead for the CBI (Centre for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries) Kenya Project - Access to Markets Pillar, I play a supportive role in facilitating Trade Support Institutions (TSIs) in Kenya to promote inclusive trade practices and enhance their capacity to serve and improve access to markets and related services for women entrepreneurs. My responsibilities include: Project Coordination: Driving the implementation of project deliverables in partnership with Passion Profit, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, and managing project timelines effectively. Stakeholder Engagement: Acting as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, trade support organizations, and policymakers, I oversee stakeholder correspondence. In the initial stages of the project, I facilitated the signing of collaboration letters, and delivered project presentations to encourage trade support institutions to participate. Representing Tradesmart and CBI, I actively engage in stakeholder meetings, gender awareness training sessions, and assessment/evaluation activities, ensuring smooth event execution. Administrative Oversight: I help streamline communication between Tradesmart and Passion Profit teams, managing key project documentation, and maintaining high standards of administrative excellence.

-I serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external constituencies on all matters pertaining to the Founder, including those of a highly confidential or critical nature. -As the liaison between the Founder and the team, I arrange and handle all logistics for meetings and events, including scheduling meetings, drafting agendas, developing, compiling, and distributing presentation materials, and recording meeting minutes.

FinEquity Africa is a regional branch of FinEquity Global, a community of practice dedicated to empowering women through financial inclusion in Africa. Convened by CGAP, it brings together practitioners, researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders working in this space through inspiring discussions, member spotlights, webinars and more. It provides opportunities to connect, learn and influence the conversation on women's financial inclusion across Africa. As one of @TradeSmart Consult's projects, I work closely with the FinEquity Africa facilitator to; - Assist in managing projects. - Define project objectives, deliverables, and success criteria. - Collaborate with project facilitator and stakeholders to establish clear expectations and provide regular updates. - Plan and coordinate every aspect of FinEquity Africa workshops and events including conceptualization, invitations and follow-ups. - Driving outreach and membership recruitment initiatives

-Optimize operations of the business by strategizing aspects of procurement, production, packaging, distribution and sales to ensure smooth running of the business. -Develop standardized recipes for value addition which included menu item, total yield, and ingredient quantity and preparations procedures to ensure customer satisfaction. -Oversee the production process and coordinate all activities of the company to ensure enough resources on hand and workflows meet the deadlines. -Maintain financial health of the company by approving transactions, requesting budget changes and submitting transfers to ensure that expenses of the accounts do not exceed the unit’s allocated budget. -Manage information reports by accurately keeping records of sales, vendor payments, and food and supplies budget daily to help examine the level of business operations. -Devise strategies to develop marketing opportunities and implement new sales plans by conducting thorough research on customer needs to achieve sales goals.

Worked as a Web Administrator for ‘Kibwezi West Connect’, an interactive online platform for the people of Kibwezi West Constituency. An initiative of Hon. Dr. Patrick Mweu Musimba, former Member of Parliament for Kibwezi West.