Senior Analyst
Justus Njeru is a Senior Manager at the Private Sector Development Practice Group under the MSC Anglophone Africa domain based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has more than 12 years of experience in financial inclusion, enterprise development, market systems, and value chains.
Revitalizing Agriculture market systems
The short video highlights the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and points to the need to revitalize agriculture market systems. What will be the role of governments have to develop a longer-term solution?
Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020
Floods and drought in 2019, a locust invasion in 2020, and now COVID-19: How do these incidents, particularly COVID-19 affect the food supply chain in the Horn of Africa?
Locust invasion, which followed a spell of flood and drought in 2019 left farmers in the horn of Africa left the farmers in anguish. Before the farmers could recover, Covid-19 has brought a new cause of concern. On the other hand, these disasters seem to bring new equilibrium in the agri-value chains coordination. This blog analyzes the role of digitization, innovative agriculture finance and policy and regulations to safeguard food supply chain in the COVID-19 era.
May 8, 2020
May 8, 2020
MSC’s support in youth employment initiatives across Sub-Saharan Africa
This video gives the highlight of how MSC supports youth employment initiatives across Sub-Saharan Africa
Aug 16, 2019
Aug 16, 2019
How do we engage youth in agricultural activities? What are the bottlenecks and possible solutions
This video talks about how we can engage youth in agricultural activities and explores some of the bottlenecks and possible solutions. Watch and learn more
Aug 14, 2019
Aug 14, 2019
Engaging youth in agriculture
This video explores how we can engage youth in agriculture to help alleviate the unemployment crisis in Sub- Saharan Africa.
Aug 13, 2019
Aug 13, 2019
Youth in agriculture: how to engage and retain youth in agricultural activities
This blog focuses on how we can engage and retain youth in agricultural activities. Its also walks us through how MSC helps its clients to tailor its services through vocational training, technological innovation and skills & entrepreneurship development to create opportunities for youth.
Aug 12, 2019
Aug 12, 2019
How Ecosystem Issues Fail Rural FIS to promote Digital Financial Services:Observations from MFIs in Tanzania
While the advantages of digital transformation for MFIs are set to be numerous, MicroSave takes stock on how ecosystem issues fail rural FIs to promote digital financial services in Tanzania.
Jul 12, 2018
Jul 12, 2018
How ecosystem issues fail rural FIs to promote digital financial services: Observations from MFIs in Tanzania
MFIs have been central to expanding financial inclusion, creating an opportunity for the rural population and women to enter the financial sector. Further, MFIs enable many poor clients to manage emergencies, raise their incomes and improve living standards. But there is still far to go
Jul 12, 2018