Our Commitment
To build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to shocks and disasters.
Strategic Objectives:
- To strengthen the resilience of ultra-poor households
- To promote transformative and climate resilient agricultural practices
Projects
Jaza Kikapu Project (2023-2026)
Poor and vulnerable people in marginalised situations often face challenges in accessing formal finance from banks and decentralised financial systems. Prevalent and severe droughts have over the years affected agriculturally based livelihood This has adversely affected poor people’s capacity to sustainably feed their households and earn an income. Our interventions prioritize women led households in vulnerable and marginalized situations. Women are flag bearers in ensuring household wellbeing in the rural areas of most developing countries. They play key roles as food producers and agricultural entrepreneurs who dedicate their own time, income and decision making to maintain food and nutritional security of their households and communities; and ensuring the stability of food supplies in times of economic hardship.
Goal: To strengthen poor households’ capacity to sustainably meet basic needs
Interventions
We employ ultra poor graduation model – a holistic livelihoods program designed to address the multi-dimensional needs of extreme poor households with 5 key components: –
- Consumption support for basic needs before their livelihood earns income.
- Social empowerment interventions. Empowering beneficiaries with essential life skills to build confidence, enhance decision-making, and improve their ability to navigate everyday challenges effectively
- Formation of self-help groups. We facilitate the formation of self-help groups and train women through these group on self-help group approach, financial literacy and access to microcredit and formal savings services.
- Livelihoods support to start, restart, strengthen or diversify existing livelihoods through financial support.
- Close mentorship of participants throughout the process in a way that develops their self-confidence.
Emergency Response to drought project (2023-2025)
80% of Laikipia County is Arid and Semi-arid. The County receives below average rainfall and has a history of drought, the last one lasting for 5 consecutive years (2019-2023). Agriculture is the main economic activity and contributes 75% of household incomes and employs more than 60% of the county’s population. About 96 percent of cropland in Kenya is rain-fed and the rains are both seasonal and unpredictable. Over reliance on rain fed agriculture in Laikipia County may partially explain why 43% of the population is in absolute poverty while 27.2% rely on food aid during food shortages. In spite of the potential presented by harvesting rainwater for irrigation, the majority of Laikipians do not harvest rainwater for irrigation during dry spells. This project aims at improving food security by training poor communities in ASAL of Laikipia County on rainwater harvesting technology and growing high value climate resilient crops and supporting poor smallholder’s farmers to harvest and store runoff water and use the same to irrigate crops during dry spell.
Goal: To enhance access to water to improve food security among poor people in Laikipia County
Our interventions include:
- Training Resilient Livelihood Promoters to sensitize communities on climate resilient approaches to food security
- Supporting food insecure households construct protected water pans to harvest rainfall runoff for irrigation
- Supporting women with disabilities with water tank and multi-storey garden kit for kitchen gardening
- Setting up demonstration farms to empower smallholder farmers on high-yielding, drought-tolerant and early maturing crops
Manguo Fire Disaster Project (2025)
Poor and vulnerable people in marginalised situations often face challenges in accessing formal finance from banks and decentralised financial systems. Prevalent and severe droughts have over the years affected agriculturally based livelihood This has adversely affected poor people’s capacity to sustainably feed their households and earn an income. Our interventions prioritize women led households in vulnerable and marginalized situations. Women are flag bearers in ensuring household wellbeing in the rural areas of most developing countries. They play key roles as food producers and agricultural entrepreneurs who dedicate their own time, income and decision making to maintain food and nutritional security of their households and communities; and ensuring the stability of food supplies in times of economic hardship.
Goal: To strengthen poor households’ capacity to sustainably meet basic needs
Interventions
- Providing relief to vulnerable people affected by Manguo fire disaster through social protection
- Supporting Manguo fire survivors to restart, strengthen and/ or diversify their livelihoods
- Supporting plot owners displaced by Manguo fire disaster, rebuild their shelters
- Strengthening slum communities’ capacity in fire management
Impact Stories and Testimonials
CategoriesBlog Livelihood Confronting Food Insecurity in Laikipia County
In Laikipia County, where over 80% of the land is arid or semi-arid and rainfall is scarce, food insecurity has…
Achievements and Metrics
Facilitated self-help group (SHG) formation, enabling members to achieve financial independence and stronger social support systems.