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ESF APEX STRATEGIES LTD

ABRIDGED PROFILE

...Building bricks for corporate solutions

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Our Background
ESF Apex Strategies is registered as a private limited company with a consulting and training mandate. Over time the
firm has conducted many training and consulting assignments for various categories of clients including corporate, non-
governmental organizations, community based organizations, local authorities, government ministries and agencies,
institutions and donor funded projects, among others. The firm has also established strong strategic linkages with
credible partners such as universities and other consulting houses in order to strengthen its training and consulting
capacity.

Vision Statement
To be the preferred provider of globally competitive and strategic corporate management solutions

Mission Statement
To provide innovative market-driven and tailor-made training and consulting solutions for our corporate clients in the
region

Strategic Competence
The firm has three directors who are also active consultants in the firm. Their combined key areas of expertise are
Entrepreneurship, Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Strategic Management and Accounting and
Finance. All of them have post graduate qualifications and professional affiliations in their respective areas.

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The company has a pool of over fifteen consultants

in various fields including entrepreneurship, project
management, evaluation and monitoring, marketing
and statistics, among other areas. ESF Apex
Strategies has signed strategic partnerships with
consulting houses such as Jomo Kenyatta University
of Agriculture and Technology Enterprises Ltd
(JKUATES), and Njuguna-Wahome Consultants’ Ltd to
perform key tasks such as national baseline surveys.

Within the last year, ESF Apex Strategies Limited has

successfully carried out a national baseline survey
for JICA and the ministry of industrialization for One
Village One Product Project (OVOP) phase three for
three districts and has just concluded doing phase
four with eleven more districts.

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Summary of Relevant Past Assignments

by ESF Apex Consultants
Assignment name Client Description of the Assignment Actual activities
and scope
Town Council of Mariakani ISO Audit/ISO Awareness Training(November- • ISO QMS Internal Auditors Certificate
December 2012)
• ISOQMS Operations Awareness.
Local Authorities/ Strategic Public Procurement(September 2012- • Overview of Public Procurement and Disposal Act.
Organizations Two day Program)
• Contract Management

TRAINING • International Procurement Technique and Issues

• Public Procurement Management
• Tender Evaluation
• Public Procurement Operation –Role of
Committees

Various CountY, Municipal Areas: • Development of training curricula and materials.

and Town Councils
 Strategic Leadership and Governance • Actual training in various parts of the country
 Devolution: Implications for Local
Authorities
TRAINING FOR LOCAL  Audit and Risk Management
AUTHORITIES
 Administrative Skills and Performance
management
 Public Procurement
 Customer Care and Public Relations

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Assignment name Client Description of the Assignment Actual activities

and scope
JICA/ Ministry of This project involved helping JICA and • Recruitment of co-consultants,
Industrialization the Ministry of Industrialization to identify
• Coordination of development of instruments,
and analyze for viability key local products
and resources which can be nurtured as • Stakeholder mapping,
flagship products for respective ‘villages’
• Training needs assessment,
ONE VILLAGE ONE (constituencies).
• Coordination of data collection
PRODUCT PROJECT- A • Phase Four: Coast Region (On-going)
BASELINE SURVEY • Analysis of data,
• Phase three: 11 Districts(July 2012)
• Report drafting
• Phase three: 3 Districts (February 2012)
• Quality assurance
• Phase one: 3 Districts ( 2009)
• Coordination and facilitation stakeholder
workshops.
INTEGRATED City of Mombasa Developing an Integrated Development Plan(On- • Developing Overall Framework for Development of
DEVELOPMENT PLAN going) the County of Mombasa.
Focus Container Freight Developing Strategic Plan(2012) • Review of company documents
Station
• Review of company mission, vision, key objectives
and organizational structure
STRATEGIC PLAN
• Review of market opportunities and trends
• Review of competition
• Development of strategic plan
1. Mombasa City Council Identifying customer and employee satisfaction 1. Development of study methodology
survey and workplace survey for various
2. Makueni County Council 2. Field data collection
organizations
CUSTOMER, 3. County Council of Kilifi 3. analysis of findings
EMPLOYEE AND 4. Mombasa Technical 4. Identification of satisfaction indices
WORKPLACE Training Institute
SATISFACTION 5. Report writing
SURVEYS 5. Kenya Coconut
6. Presentation of findings to stakeholder
Development Authority
6. Kenya Education Staff
Institute

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Assignment name Client Description of the Assignment Actual activities

and scope
BASELINE SURVEY GIZ Conducting a Baseline Survey for a BMZ funded Baseline Survey of Stabilization of livelihoods for
project: Berbera Region of Somaliland( On- female headed and IDP households in Berbera
going) region in Somaliland.
Traidcraft Exchange End line Monitoring and Evaluation of Conducting End Line Project Evaluation
Beekeeping Enterprise for Livelihood
Improvement in Extremely Vulnerable
Environment - BELIEVE Program(SITE
Promotion Enterprises) – July 2012

MONITORING AND Consumer International/ Developing a monitoring and Evaluation Developing M&E framework and plan
EVALUATION Financial Education Fund framework and conducting M&E for their
Facilitating M&E workshops
program in Kenya and Tanzania
Conducting M&E

Open Society for Southern Developing a monitoring and Evaluation Developing M&E framework and plan
Africa (OSISA) framework and conducting M&E for their
Facilitating M&E workshops
program in Zambia, Mozambique and
Malawi Conducting M&E

Githunguri Dairy Farmers Sensitization of procurement process and • Identify training needs for board and top
TRAINING FOR BOARD Cooperative Society corporate governance for society board and top management
OF DIRECTORS AND management
• Development of training curriculum and materials
TOP MANAGERS and actual training

Mombasa Solid waste This is a baseline survey and marketing • Identify community based organizations involved in
management project assessment on community waste based solid waste management
enterprises in Mombasa municipality under
• Identify municipal and ministry of environment by
Mombasa solid waste management project and
BASELINE AND laws
Mombasa Municipal Council.
MARKET ASSESSMENT • Formulate solid waste management by-laws
SURVEY
• Carry out a market survey for solid waste in
Mombasa
• Formulate a solid waste management guideline

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Assignment name Client Description of the Assignment Actual activities

and scope
Kenya Education Staff The Kenya Education staff Institute (KESI) is an • Analyze organizational courses and client lists
Institute (initiative funded by educational parastatal whose mandate is to
• Undertake fieldwork in 25 districts
the World Bank) train education managers around the country
NATIONAL BASE LINE on behalf of the ministry of education. In this • Identify depth and scope of training
SURVEY assignment KESI sought to identify customer
• Analyze the satisfaction levels of employees
satisfaction levels for its products around the
country and satisfaction levels for its employees • Analyze findings
• Hold sensitization workshops

ENTREPRENEURSHIP Jomo Kenyatta University of JKUATES is the university company of • Review of company mandate
DEVELOPMENT Agriculture and Technology JKUAT. Its mandate includes commercializing
• Analysis of company capacity
PROGRAM Enterprises Limited university products including training. One of
(JKUATES)/ IFC its departments, the Enterprise Development • Identification and review of partnerships already in
center (EDC) contracted us to help it identify, place
review and prioritize community based
• Study of fifteen projects around Nairobi and Thika,
entrepreneurship projects/ community groups
Kenya
which the company would target for partnership
(with various university departments) and • Identification of five priority partnership programs
entrepreneurship training with the support of IFC

PROVISION JKUATES ESF entered into memorandum of understand • Proposal development and reviews
OF BUSINESS to offer consulting services on behalf of
• Training in business planning, business
DEVELOPMENT JKUATES on various programs. The services
management, customer relations and marketing
SERVICES (BDS) we offer for them include training, project
among others
planning and management support and project
monitoring and evaluation • project planning and management support and
• project monitoring and evaluation

Kenya ICT Board (initiative The Kenya ICT board is I the process of starting • Identifying training needs
funded by the World Bank) ICT centers in various parts of the country. They
• Developing training curriculum in areas such as
contracted some of our consultants to offer
DIGITAL VILLAGES identifying business ideas, business management,
training to ICT entrepreneurs in Nyanza (Siaya)
PROJECT business plan development, legal issues in small
business
• Actual training in Siaya

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Assignment name Client Description of the Assignment Actual activities

and scope
Githunguri Dairy farmers Githunguri Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society • Review of procurement and disposal processes
Cooperative society (GDFCS) is a leading society in Kenya and it owns the
• Study of procurement processes of related
Fresha milk brand. We were involved in the
EVALUATION OF organizations
process lending to the development of its
SOCIETY OPERATIONS, procurement and disposal policy. Particularly • Development of procurement and disposal policy
PROJECTS AND we evaluated key operations and procurement and guidelines
PROCUREMENT AND processes of GDFCS and its projects and then
DISPOSAL PROCESSES • Facilitation of policy orientation workshops for top
developed a procurement and disposal policy
management and other staff

FAULU Advisory Services FAULU Kenya is a leading microfinance firm • Review of existing training guidelines
(FAS) in collaboration with involved in loaning to the lower market business
• Development of training curricula
JKUAT and non-business clientele. Our consultant’s
ENTREPRENEURSHIP task involves training business loan beneficiaries • Actual training in various parts of the country
TRAINING in business planning, management, accounting
• Impact assessment of the program on business
and book keeping and marketing
trainees

Raju body builders Raju Body Builders is a company based in • Review of company documents
industrial area whose core business is to
• Review of company mission, vision, key objectives
assemble body kits for busses and trucks. We
and organizational structure
were contracted to develop a 10 year strategic
STRATEGIC PLAN and sustainability plan • Review of market opportunities and trends
• Review of competition
• Development of strategic plan

Njuguna-Wahome Associates Njuguna Wahome is a consulting firm based • Development of training curricula
in westlands, Nairobi and with who ESF is in
• Development of training materials
collaboration. ESF has in the past trained its
WORKSHOP staff in customer relations, team work and time • Actual training in various parts of the country
FACILITATION management among others.
• Follow up workshop to gauge training impact

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Key Consulting and Training Personnel

Dr. Fred Mugambi Mr. Stephen Kathurima Muriuki

Team Leader Senior Consultant

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r. Fred Mugambi is an Entrepreneurship and M&E specialist and has worked r. Stephen Kathurima is an accomplished Auditor and Finance Specialist
in various entrepreneurship and microfinance projects within Kenya. He with a wealth of experience in monitoring projects in Africa. He is a
has been a lead consultant for, among other assignments, monitoring and Certified Public Accountant of Kenya who also holds a Master of Business
evaluation, baseline surveys and entrepreneurship appraisal projects with private and Administration in International Business Management and a Bachelor’s degree in
public firms such as JICA, Trade Craft, Consumers International, FAULU Kenya, Jomo Finance and Accounting. Stephen is a senior consultant at ESF Apex Strategies Ltd
Kenyatta University of agriculture and Technology, East African Breweries Limited, and has been extensively involved in monitoring and evaluation of several projects in
The Ministry of Industrialization, Ministry of local government, Kenya Education Staff the region such as; Emerging Market Groups and Financial Education Fund projects on
Institute and Githunguri Dairy Farmers cooperative Society, among others. promoting financial capability in Kenya and Tanzania through consumer education and
consumer protection; OSISA funded projects on strengthening consumer protection
He holds PhD degree in Entrepreneurship, Masters Degree in Entrepreneurship in malawi, zambia and mozambique for social and economic justice; Big Lottery
development and a 1st class honors bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He funded project implemented by Traidcraft on Beekeeping Enterprise for Livelihood
has further training in Entrepreneurship training and Enterprise Management from the Improvement in Extremely Vulnerable Environments in Kenya, GIZ projects in Berbera
Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa, and Galilee college, Israel. He has Somaliland among many others.
also been a lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Marketing at Kenya Methodist University Stephen has been instrumental in developing guidelines and institutional framework for
and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and a Campus OVOP concept introduced in Kenya by JICA through the Ministry of industrialization.
Director for JKUAT. He has vast experience of coordinating data collection, resource allocation, data
review and report writing in various consulting assignments including baseline surveys,
strategic planning and monitoring and evaluation.
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r. Evans Mwiti is a specialist in Strategic Management and Enterprise
Development with a bias in small enterprise development and Monitoring
and Evaluation. He has extensive hands on experience in community
development project design, monitoring and evaluation. He has previously worked
as the lead consultant and senior data collector for, among other assignments,
baseline surveys, monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, design and evaluation
of balanced score cards for various local and international firms such as Tradecraft,
Consumers International, JICA, OSISA, Kenya Education Staff Institute, Ministry of
Dr. Evans Mwiti
Industrialization, Ministry of local government among others.
Senior Consultant
He holds a master’s degree in strategic management and a 1st class honours bachelor’s
degree in business management. He has completed PhD in Enterprise Development.
He is also a trainer and a lecturer of strategic management and entrepreneurship at
Kenya Methodist University and Kenyatta University.

M
r. Kithinji Mungania has long experience in design and development of
entrepreneurship/business training programs; Enterprise development;
Provision of business development services (BDS) especially to small and
micro enterprises, business counselling and mentoring.

Mr. Kithinji Mungania

Mr. Mungania has been a project management consultant in Papua New Gunea where
Senior Consultant he successfully helped Design, development and management of projects especially
micro savings/finance schemes; income generating activities and other livelihood
activities for three years. He has extensive experience in building partnerships
(networking); mobilization; project monitoring and evaluation, reporting and reviews.
He holds a MSc. (Entrepreneurship) and is currently working on PhD in Project
Management

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rs Fridah Simba- Theuri is a Management specialist and has worked in various
projects in and outside of Kenya. She has been actively involved as a Rapporteur
in public hearings held in central province of Kenya by the Interim Independent
Boundaries Review Commission (IIBRC).
She conducted research entitled ‘Towards the improvement of Entrepreneurship Education
Mrs Fridah Simba-Theuri at Kenyan Universities” which focused on teaching methodology, delivery and evaluation of
Senior Consultant Entrepreneurship Education at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.
Fridah has also participated in the One Village One Product (OVOP) programme; a JICA
supported programme as a senior consultant in various phases of the project. She holds
a 2nd Class Honors (Upper Division) Bachelor of Education (Arts) - English and Literature
and Master of Science in Entrepreneurship. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Business
Administration at JKUAT and is also a Deputy Campus Director of JKUAT.

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r. Anthony Wagoki’s areas of expertise are: Marketing, Strategic Management and
Communication. He has long experience as a consultant in various capacities
such as Chief Examiner of Marketing and Customer Service, Management and
strategic marketing for Kenya Institute of Bankers as well as Auditing Examiner at the Kenya
Accountants and Secretaries National Board(KASNEB). He has also been actively involved
in consultancies for East African Breweries Ltd (EABL) Tusker Academy, Assa Abloy(E.A),
Mr. Anthony Wagoki Faulu Kenya, SBO Research Ltd, Land O’ Lakes, Communications Commission of Kenya
among others. Mr. Wagoki holds an upper second class honors Bachelor of Business
Administration, Sociology and a Master of Business and Administration(MBA) and is
currently pursuing is Doctorate in Marketing Management. He is a member of KASNEB
and is also a university lecturer.

Conclusion
We commit to use our knowledge and skill base, experience and strategic synergies to provide high quality and
innovative solutions to your corporate challenges. To achieve this we will endeavor to involve you as our client and your
relevant stakeholders in the design and delivery of all training and consulting assignments.
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ESF APEX STRATEGIES LIMITED

CONTACTS
P.O. BOX 10417-00200 NAIROBI
Tel: +254 0708 296206, 0720966396
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Website: www.esfapex.com
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