Partners

At Black Butterfly we thrive on understanding our clients’ businesses deeply so we can provide unexpected solutions. Having deep roots in the discipline of design, we explore the boundaries of our projects in order to effectively execute strategic marketing plans and develop a distinct market presence for our clients. We pride ourselves in thinking creatively and combining this with strategic discussions with our clients.

Our vision is to be a firm that provides exceptional design services with integrity and offer powerful solutions that inspire, educate, create interest, persuade, amuse, stimulate and push creativity. Our capabilities include the full scope of an Organization’s communication needs: branding, corporate identity, social marketing campaigns, packaging, publications, high-level marketing & event collateral and environmental graphics.

Black Butterfly offers a ranges of services to its clients including creating logos, visual identity, publications, environmental designs and creating social marketing designs.

Black Butterfly is at the forefront of ensuring that all public documents put out by Shikilia look presentable and communicate our messages clearly.

Dalberg consists of six collaborative capabilities: Strategy, Research, implementation, Data Analytics and Design . Each of Dalberg’s capabilities approaches problems differently, and all support each other to have impact at scale. Dalberg’s mission is to mobilize effective responses to the world’s most pressing issues and to raise living standards around the world. Dalberg strives to achieve economic and social impact by creating value for all its clients.

Dalberg provides a range of services including strategy advisory services, research services, deep data analytics, design and implementation. We partner with and serve communities, governments, and companies throughout the world, providing an innovative mix of services.

Dalberg’s team is instrumental in reaching out to key funders, creating key partnerships for Shikilia and running Shikilia’s Project Management Office (PMO).

FSD work ranges from direct investment in market innovations to research and policy analysis. FSD Kenya does seek to harness financial solutions to meet the needs of lower income households and smaller scale businesses – to help them to manage scarce resources and invest in the future. In short, our aim is to make financial markets work better for the poor.

FSD’s strategy focuses on three core elements through which value is created by financial inclusion: use, cost and trust. There has long been an implicit assumption that the only important constraint is cost. This certainly remains a significant factor but it is unlikely to be sufficient. FSD believes that realising the promise of inclusion depends on developing financial solutions which address real world problems. In other words, we need financial services which do useful things for people and businesses.

From digital finance to social protection, FSD Kenya works to support financial inclusion with a focus on nine inter-related topic areas: Market information, regulatory system development, payment platforms II, government payments, financial innovation for the real economy, building livelihoods, credit and SME finance among others.

Joyjet is an international, multi-cultural and multi-skilled team that aims to design, build and launch digital solutions into the business space.

Joyjet is on a mission to help go-to-market strategies for digital solutions skyrocket, through the blending of tech, data, media, creativity, marketing and strategy. It helps entrepreneurs, startups and established enterprises navigate the journey from a brilliant idea to sustainable business solution : from ideation, initiation, development and “business staging”, to scaling.

The new NCBA has harnessed the power of both NIC and CBA to create a bank that brings together the best of both worlds — from cutting edge mobile banking to good old-fashioned relationship management; from scalable business banking to financial services that grow as your business does; from best-in-class choice of products to investment solutions tailored to your specific needs.

NCBA offers a range of services, from banking accounts, investment solutions, forex, insurance services, credit services, financing among others.

The bank manages key mobile money solutions in Kenya and Rwanda including, M-shwari, Fuliza and Stawi.

NCBA is providing a key mobile money platform to Shikilia through M-shwari enabling Shikilia to better target recipients and send them cash.

PesaLink Instant Payment is so far, the most innovative and revolutionary e-payment solution designed by IPSL to service the banking industry.

The company was established to provide a secure, fast and efficient money transfer system by tapping into the latest technological advances. The inter-banking money transfer service, branded PesaLink, allows customers to send money from one bank account to another bank account in real time on all banks’ retail payment channels including mobile, ATM, Internet banking, Agency, Bank branches and POS. IPSL aims at creating value for the industry, banks and customers through innovation and interoperability.

PesaLink provides a 24 hour, 7 days a week (including public holidays) platform enabling customers to send money from as low as KSh. 10 to as much as KSh. 999,999 at a low fee. Initially, PesaLink will be a person-to-person (P2P) service but will eventually provide person-to-business (P2B) and business-to-business (B2B) services.

In Africa’s cities alone there are more than 10 million informal shops selling over $180 billion worth of goods every year. Despite their importance to local economies, these shops routinely stock out of products, have limited access to financial services, and lack proper business management tools. Sokowatch aims to transform communities across Africa by revolutionizing access to essential goods and services.

Sokowatch enables informal retailers to order products at any time via SMS or mobile app, and receive free same-day delivery to their store. This makes it easier for shopkeepers to source goods and helps manufacturers ensure that their products are consistently available to consumers.Additionally, Sokowatch evaluates retailers to provide them with access to credit and other financial services typically not available to informal businesses; and tracks real-time sales and orders across thousands of stores and offer personalized promotions and business insights to individual retailers.