By accessing this site, you signify your agreement with, and understanding of, the information in this Privacy Policy.
1. Introduction
We at Samawati Capital Partners Limited (SCP) recognize that privacy is a fundamental human right that ought to be protected through lawful, legitimate, and responsible collection and processing. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy and security of the personal data we collect from visitors and users of our website and want you to understand how we collect, use, and share data about you in compliance with applicable data protection laws.
This Privacy Policy aims to help you understand our personal data collection and disclosure practices and describes your rights to access, correct, or restrict our use of your personal data.
Personal data and/or personal information as used in this Privacy Policy refers to information that relates to an identified individual or an identifiable individual.
2. Privacy Principles
We apply the following Principles when we collect and process your personal data:
We process data in accordance with your right to privacy lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner;
We collect personal data for specific and legitimate purposes and do not process it in a manner that is incompatible with the purposes for which it was collected;
We ensure that the data collected and/or processed is adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which the data is collected and/or processed and that valid explanations are provided whenever additional information is required;
We ensure that all personal data is accurate and up to date and that any inaccurate personal data is erased or rectified without delay;
We ensure that data is kept in a form that identifies you for no longer than is necessary; and
We ensure that data is not transferred to third parties unless there is proof of adequate data protection safeguards.
3. Information Collected
We may collect and process your personal data when you visit or use our website. The data we collect can be classified as Non-personally and Personally identifiable. Non-personally identifiable data is gathered when you generally browse our website, while Personally identifiable data is collected when you voluntarily submit such information to us by filling out the “Contact” form or you communicate with us electronically.
The data we collect includes the following:
basic personal details such as your name;
contact information such as your telephone number and email address;
demographic data such as your location, preferences, or interests;
internet protocol (IP) address, device type, browser type, operating system; and
specific content provided by you which might contain further personal data.
4. Use of Information
If you use our website in relation to any of our services, send us an electronic communication, or use the “Contact” form on the website, we may use personal information for the following purposes:
to communicate with you and respond to any of your queries or concerns;
to disseminate information to further our mandate and operate our business;
to maintain the quality of our services;
to analyze, develop, improve, and optimize the use, function, and performance of our website and services;
to market and contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered;
to manage the security of our website, networks, and systems;
to provide general statistics regarding the use of our website; and
to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
We do not collect any personal data that we do not need to provide and oversee our services to you, and we endeavour to use good practices to keep your information secure at all times.
5. Legal Basis for Collecting or Processing Your Data
We process your data based on one or more of the following legal bases including:
the consent you provide for the processing of your data;
for the performance of a contract with you;
to comply with any legal obligations;
to protect your vital interests or any other person who may be indirectly affected;
public interest; and
to pursue our legitimate interests, provided that they do not override or prejudice your fundamental rights and freedoms.
6. Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose and share your personal data when applicable, and in order to pursue our legitimate interest in providing services to you, with the appropriate contractual obligations in place. Your personal data may be disclosed to the following persons or for the following reasons:
to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
to our subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, associates, partners, contractors, and third-party service providers to the extent necessary to serve the applicable purpose and to perform their functions;
to comply with applicable laws and regulations;
to law enforcement agencies, regulatory authorities, courts, or other statutory authorities in response to a demand issued with the appropriate lawful mandate;
to protect the vital interests of a person, our property, services, legal rights, or safety of the website, our clients, or others; and
for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
7. Children’s Privacy
Our website is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children. If we obtain actual knowledge that we have collected personal information about a child, the information will be immediately deleted from our database.
8. Data Security
We have adopted reasonable security practices and procedures, in line with applicable laws, to protect your personal data from unauthorized access or disclosure, unlawful destruction, damage, loss, and alteration while it is under our control. In addition to this, our data security measures are routinely reviewed and upgraded to ensure the level of protection is commensurate to the degree of sensitivity applied to personal data.
We however cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transferred over the internet and/or stored electronically due to the inherent risks in the internet. Therefore, we cannot accept liability for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our website.
9. International Transfer
Your personal data may be transferred to, processed by a processor, and maintained in another jurisdiction. If this happens, we will take adequate measures to ensure your data is treated as required under relevant data protection laws.
10. Cookie Policy
Cookies are small text/data files that are placed on your device when you visit the website. They allow websites to remember your actions and preferences (such as login information, language selection, and other settings) for a certain period of time. There are two types of cookies, Persistent cookies and Session cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your device even after you close your browser or turn off your device. They are used to remember your preferences or actions for a longer period of time. On the other hand, Session cookies are temporary and are deleted once you close your browser or turn off your device. They are used to enable certain features on the site. We may use cookies to:
Help us remember your preferences and settings such as language preference and login information;
Analyze how you use the website;
Improve the website and its functionality and performance;
Provide personalized content and advertising;
Prevent fraudulent activity and improve the website’s security;
Recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you; or
Make your next visit to the website more efficient and user-friendly.
Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies. To do this, look at the “help” menu on your browser. Switching off cookies may restrict your use of the Site and/or delay or affect the way in which it operates.
11. Third-Party Links
You may find other content on the website that links to the websites and services of our partners and other third parties. We are not in any way responsible for the content of anyexternally linked website or webpage, and by clicking on any of the links, you will leave the SCP website and accordingly be subject to the terms of use, privacy, and cookie policies of the other website that you choose to visit.
12. Data Retention
We do not keep your personal data for any longer than necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected the data.
13. Your Rights
Subject to legal and contractual exceptions, you are entitled to the following with regard to your data:
the right to be informed that we are collecting personal data about you and the use to which the personal data is to be put;
the right to access the personal data we keep about you;
the right to be forgotten by us by requesting we delete your personal data held by us;
the right to request us to supply you with data that you previously provided to us;
the right to request us to correct or update any information about you held with us which is incorrect and or misleading;
the right to request that we restrict the personal data relating to you that we process;
the right to object to the processing of your personal data in some circumstances;
the right to data portability; and
rights related to automated decision-making.
14. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions or would like to access, correct, modify, or delete your information, lodge a complaint, and/or practice any of your data protection rights, you can email us at privacy@samawaticapital.com.
We reserve the right to refuse a request if we believe it would violate any law or cause the information to be incorrect.
15. Policy Updates and Changes
We reserve the right to amend or change this Privacy Policy to meet our changing business needs or ensure that it complies with current legal requirements.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on April 1, 2023.
“When I wake up in the morning, and I see my cows healthy and happy, I am happy.”
Samawati provided a critical research step toward harnessing a global community’s interest in African investment.
When I inherited the cows, I was only making a net income of KES 4,000 a month and taking losses. Now, I make around KES 15,000 each month. I can educate my two children and take care of the household.”
Leonard, dairy farmer and customer of CKL Africa Ltd.
Inside Impact: The CKL Africa Story
“When I wake up in the morning, and I see my cows healthy and happy, I am happy.”
Samawati provided a critical research step toward harnessing a global community’s interest in African investment.
T he milk I sell is what runs this household.” Leonard, a local dairy farmer from Kenya’s Kiambu County, has been taking care of his late father’s dairy cows for the past two years, but only recently has he seen the profitable side of being a dairy farmer. With a lack of adequate knowledge on good farming practice, he confesses to struggling initially to take care of the cows. There were 10 of them, and they were each producing around 12 litres of milk per day. That was until he became aware of the services and products from CKL Africa, a Kenya-based medium-sized enterprise that would guide Leonard on the proper products to use, and the best mode of application, over many months.
T he milk I sell is what runs this household.” Leonard, a local dairy farmer from Kenya’s Kiambu County, has been taking care of his late father’s dairy cows for the past two years, but only recently has he seen the profitable side of being a dairy farmer. With a lack of adequate knowledge on good farming practice, he confesses to struggling initially to take care of the cows. There were 10 of them, and they were each producing around 12 litres of milk per day. That was until he became aware of the services and products from CKL Africa, a Kenya-based medium-sized enterprise that would guide Leonard on the proper products to use, and the best mode of application, over many months.
T he milk I sell is what runs this household.” Leonard, a local dairy farmer from Kenya’s Kiambu County, has been taking care of his late father’s dairy cows for the past two years, but only recently has he seen the profitable side of being a dairy farmer. With a lack of adequate knowledge on good farming practice, he confesses to struggling initially to take care of the cows. There were 10 of them, and they were each producing around 12 litres of milk per day. That was until he became aware of the services and products from CKL Africa, a Kenya-based medium-sized enterprise that would guide Leonard on the proper products to use, and the best mode of application, over many months.
T he milk I sell is what runs this household.” Leonard, a local dairy farmer from Kenya’s Kiambu County, has been taking care of his late father’s dairy cows for the past two years, but only recently has he seen the profitable side of being a dairy farmer. With a lack of adequate knowledge on good farming practice, he confesses to struggling initially to take care of the cows. There were 10 of them, and they were each producing around 12 litres of milk per day. That was until he became aware of the services and products from CKL Africa, a Kenya-based medium-sized enterprise that would guide Leonard on the proper products to use, and the best mode of application, over many months.
T he milk I sell is what runs this household.” Leonard, a local dairy farmer from Kenya’s Kiambu County, has been taking care of his late father’s dairy cows for the past two years, but only recently has he seen the profitable side of being a dairy farmer. With a lack of adequate knowledge on good farming practice, he confesses to struggling initially to take care of the cows. There were 10 of them, and they were each producing around 12 litres of milk per day. That was until he became aware of the services and products from CKL Africa, a Kenya-based medium-sized enterprise that would guide Leonard on the proper products to use, and the best mode of application, over many months.
T he milk I sell is what runs this household.” Leonard, a local dairy farmer from Kenya’s Kiambu County, has been taking care of his late father’s dairy cows for the past two years, but only recently has he seen the profitable side of being a dairy farmer. With a lack of adequate knowledge on good farming practice, he confesses to struggling initially to take care of the cows. There were 10 of them, and they were each producing around 12 litres of milk per day. That was until he became aware of the services and products from CKL Africa, a Kenya-based medium-sized enterprise that would guide Leonard on the proper products to use, and the best mode of application, over many months.
T he milk I sell is what runs this household.” Leonard, a local dairy farmer from Kenya’s Kiambu County, has been taking care of his late father’s dairy cows for the past two years, but only recently has he seen the profitable side of being a dairy farmer. With a lack of adequate knowledge on good farming practice, he confesses to struggling initially to take care of the cows. There were 10 of them, and they were each producing around 12 litres of milk per day. That was until he became aware of the services and products from CKL Africa, a Kenya-based medium-sized enterprise that would guide Leonard on the proper products to use, and the best mode of application, over many months.
T he milk I sell is what runs this household.” Leonard, a local dairy farmer from Kenya’s Kiambu County, has been taking care of his late father’s dairy cows for the past two years, but only recently has he seen the profitable side of being a dairy farmer. With a lack of adequate knowledge on good farming practice, he confesses to struggling initially to take care of the cows. There were 10 of them, and they were each producing around 12 litres of milk per day. That was until he became aware of the services and products from CKL Africa, a Kenya-based medium-sized enterprise that would guide Leonard on the proper products to use, and the best mode of application, over many months.
Today, Leonard has increased the size of his herd by 50% and reports collecting 250% to 300% as much milk from each animal. And he anticipates the numbers will keep growing.
Funding for CKL Africa, dedicated to serving and empowering such family farmers in Eastern Africa, was the first transaction that Sam Ndonga and Sonja Riedke, co-founders of Samawati Capital Partners, sourced for AATIF as sub-advisor, along with supporting the investment process until financial close. This transaction, in fact, was part of the inspiration for founding Samawati.
The way CKL Africa as a medium-sized enterprise echoes positively within a cross section of Africa’s economy is emblematic of Samawati's intentions for “Better investments…Better economy…Better lives.” For example, one of CKL’s main products is Maclik Super, a proprietary animal supplement used by dairy farmers to provide cows with crucial minerals to improve milk production. The product is manufactured and distributed via an elaborate, Africa-intensive supply chain. Some of the ingredients are sourced globally and shipped to Kenya’s seaport in Mombasa, where they are transported inland by the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) to the country’s Internal Container Depot in Nairobi. Here, they are cleared, offloaded, and moved by road to CKL’s factory, a state-of-the-art facility in Kiambu County that produces animal nutritional products for farmers across Eastern Africa.
The plant is a result of the company’s strategic partnership with AATIF, whose financing has enabled CKL to increase local production and meet the growing demand for quality supplements in the region. CKL now has about 125 full-time employees and has been growing.
After raw materials from the port arrive at the CKL plant and its warehousing and logistics team offloads them, the company’s Quality and Regulatory Assurance Department ensures that all quality processes and controls are observed, and then the materials are combined with locally sourced ingredients to form Maclik Super. (In total, the factory produces around 550 MT to 600 MT of various finished products each month.) Maclik Super is then packaged at the factory into different-sized units for distribution.
When I inherited the cows, I was only making a net income of KES 4,000 a month and taking losses. Now, I make around KES 15,000 each month. I can educate my two children and take care of the household.”
Leonard, dairy farmer and customer of CKL Africa Ltd.
Orders are placed by the company’s network of distributors nationwide using an innovative mobile app, allowing the dispatch process to be seamless and efficient. It is around this point that the company’s sales team, which serves distributors, comes in. The distributors, called Strategic Business Partners because they exclusively sell CKL products, operate in various territories countrywide, making sure all of the company’s products reach its network of thousands of stockists.
Maclik Super is particularly popular in the Kiambu and Nyeri territories in Kenya primarily due to the prevalence of dairy farming there in comparison to the rest of the country. In Kiambu, for example, livestock keeping and sales account for more than half (55%) of overall household income.
At one Strategic Business Partner, Vam Distributors in Kiambu County, for example, a team of about 30 staff members works to take orders and load their trucks for delivery from as early as 7 a.m. each day. Each stockist is supplied at least once a week, with the busier stockists supplied three times per week.
In Kiambu, CKL products are also distributed through cooperative unions, a system whereby farmers can purchase goods such as supplements and household items by exchanging milk from their dairy cattle. The largest cooperative, Githunguri Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society with an estimated 17,000 farmers, is in Kiambu, and it is through this system that Leonard, the dairy farmer we met earlier who has increased his production several times over, accesses CKL products in exchange for milk.
After his first difficult years, with renewed optimism, Leonard now aspires to be a full-time dairy farmer, running his home solely on milk sales. Selling milk as a means to run a household is a commonplace practice in the region, with a study finding that more than 8,500 litres of milk per household were sold annually in Kiambu in this respect.
The investment in CKL Africa sourced and guided by Samawati’s founders, and the benefits for Africa across the supply chain and ultimately for people like the dairy farmer Leonard, are but one example of the impact that Samawati Capital Partners has the expertise to achieve and to help others achieve—through sound impact investments and impact initiatives.
Africa presents rich opportunities for investments that deliver on both financial and impact goals.
But intended impact investors may not have the regional and local knowledge, personnel, and networks to drive truly high-quality deal origination.
Samawati Capital Partners enables impact funds and other investors to design and refine their investment strategies and identify and act upon the most attractive opportunities.
Flexible Engagement
Samawati can provide full-cycle investment advisory or targeted support at any point in the cycle.
Investor strategy
Samawati enables clients to design and initiate impact strategies. We will…
Advise funds and other investors on the design and expression of their impact-oriented investment theses.
Support the development of technical assistance initiatives targeted at financial institutions and enterprises.
Sourcing and Bespoke Screening
Samawati sources transactions in the region within an investor’s sectors of interest. We can also advise on sectors of opportunity.
We screen potential transactions against each investor’s financial and impact criteria and prepare confidential investment summaries for investor review.
Structuring
We structure transactions to address an investor’s risk, return, and impact needs and goals.
Deals are typically debt or quasi-debt investments of US $250K to $30M+ into enterprises and financial institutions (lender finance).
Due Diligence
Samawati performs commercial, operational, financial, and impact/ESG due diligence including on-site assessment.
We prepare a detailed investment memo and presentation, fully documented, for the investor’s consideration.
Execution/Closing
We support investors in negotiating optimal terms and covenants, and we facilitate execution of documentation to enable transactions to close.
Monitoring and Support
Samawati supports fund managers after investment. We can…
Monitor the commercial and impact/ESG aspects of investments over the life of transactions and flag concerns.
Assist portfolio companies in evaluating and enhancing governance and other impact factors, helping ensure true and continued impact.
Advise portfolio companies operationally, enhancing their efficiency and growth.
Inside Impact: The CKL Africa Story
“When I wake up in the morning, and I see my cows healthy and happy, I am happy.”
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