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Africa’s First Sustainable Garment Factory, Built with Upcycled Containers
A model for green industrialisation across Africa.
Problem/Need:
Lack of ready-to-use fit-for-purpose industrial spaces in Kenya’s Export Processing Zones (EPZ) has slowed down the garment’s sector growth, limiting exports, and job creation.
Solution:
Development of a 5,000 sqm EDGE-certified garment park to provide necessary infrastructure and facilities.
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TCA Intervention
Provision of subordinated debt, facilitation of senior debt, and viability gap funding to ensure project execution.
FUN FACT
Bamboo poles
are used over traditional wooden ones for electrical grids as they are:
More durable (lasting over 50 years)
Promote faster re-growth (maturing in just 1 to 1.5 years)
Lightweight. This allows for more poles per truckload, reducing transportation costs and pollution, among other benefits.
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Investment So Far
Subordinated Debt
TCA
$
0
M
Grant funding
USAID
$
0
K
Grant funding
GATSBY AFRICA
$
0
K
Developer Equity
MODULAR EPZ
$
0
K
Project Participants
Period of Implementation
Construction started in May 2024, with completion targeted at the end of May 2025
Target Results
At full capacity, this industrial shed will house a garment factory, generating over 2,000 jobs, 80% of which will be women and youth.
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