KenInvest managing director Moses Ikiara. PHOTO | FILE
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The online platform (e-centre) will host agencies that approve applications and promote investments, enabling them to share information on real-time basis.
Kenya will set up a digital one-stop shop to enable foreign investors access regulatory documents and approvals at a single point, the Kenya Investment Authority has said.
The online platform (e-centre) will host agencies that approve applications and promote investments, enabling them to share information on real-time basis, the agency said.
The e-centre will operate alongside the brick and mortar facility that President Uhuru Kenyatta directed the agency last week to create in its Nairobi offices to cut delays in setting up businesses.
“We have opened discussions that will lay the ground for establishing an electronic one stop shop, parallel to the physical one,” KenInvest managing director Moses Ikiara said, adding that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) had committed to offer technical support for the rollout.
Just like with the physical centre, the electronic platform will issue work permits, licences, land titles, Pin numbers, power quotations and environment impact assessment approvals.
The one-stop centres modelled around recently launched Huduma centres, will host the Directorate of Immigration and Registration of Persons, National Land Commission/Ministry of Lands and Kenya Revenue Authority.
Others include the State Law Office, KenInvest, Kenya Power, Export Processing Zone Authority and National Environment Management Authority (Nema).
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