About Serano Africa

We provide applied knowledge services on request and demand.

We are a Nairobi-based strategic think tank whose primary aim is to mutually engage, examine and make objective analysis, deliver high-quality value where it is most required. We also provide responsive and beneficial problem-driven solutions, undertake appropriate capacity and capabilities development, policy advisory services, research, consultancy, and build knowledge-sharing platforms that support your firm to create value and achieve its purpose.

What we do

As an integrated utility consulting, advisory, and investment firm, we aim to improve the quality of life and dignity in people through our key areas of focus which include:

As an integrated utility consulting, advisory, and investment firm, we aim to improve the quality of life and dignity in people through our key areas of focus which include:

1. Serano Institute of Leadership & Sustainability
2. Emerging Africa Supply Chains Sustainability Hub
3. Sustainable Energy, Food & Climate Security Lab
4. African Center for Legislative Research & Policy
5. Center for Devolution & Development Policy
6. Global Health Policy & Inequality Lab
7. Regional Trade & Industry Development Lab
8. Strategic Affairs & Fragility Assessment Lab
9. SME Innovation & Sustainable Entrepreneurship
10. Strategic Communications & PR Lab

Within these initiative areas, we run different projects and produce compelling policy advocacy toolkits and handbooks for knowledge sharing and transfer that consider Vulnerabilities, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA realities) in our complex contemporary world.

At Serano Africa, we focus on reimagining the world and put considerable effort into capabilities development to create it.

We use a problem-driven approach to ideate and iterate possible solutions for elevating narratives of sustainable transformation, people-centered and inclusive prosperity.

We provide applied knowledge services on request and demand.

Our specialist research team supports a range of development stakeholders, government agencies, and the private sector, synthesizing the latest evidence and expert thinking to inform policy and practice. Through the building of diverse communities of expertise in governance, sustainability, social development, humanitarian affairs, and conflict issues among others, we initiate important programs within our Centers, Labs, and Hubs.

Why Us

Our Values

We Seek to achieve this mission by

  • Providing quality products and services that meet and surpass the expectations of our partners and clients but also support their change vision.
  • Ensuring proper follow-up and monitoring of feedback loop to prevent cognitive dissonance.
  • Constantly carrying out intensive research to understand market dynamics which helps us to scrutinize our customer’s needs within the spectrum of initiatives we focus on.
  • Ensuring we have highly experienced and quality teams comprising specialists and expert thought leaders who capitalize on their skills and networks to deliver sustainable value and solutions.
  • Focusing on medium to long-term rather than short-term partnerships for business continuity, maintenance and retention of rewarding networks and relationships.

Why choose to work with Serano Africa?

  • Delivery of high quality and reliable services and products
  • Efficiency and Effectiveness
  • End to End Professionalism
  • Meaningful Networks and Relationships
  • Customer Centric
  • Agile and Adaptable for Service Delivery
  • Focus on Sustainability and Innovatively Transformative Solutions