Democracy. Governance and Human Rights (DGHR)

CFC believes that development is possible when there is good, responsible, and accountable leadership accompanied by public goodwill. For this to be achieved, the public/citizenry have to be aware of their duties and responsibilities and of critical importance is the role of the ordinary citizen when it comes to election of their leaders and how to hold them to account when they assume office. In this regard, we work closely with the political class, electoral body, community members, accountability institutions as well as anti-corruption body for the purpose of ensuring that leaders are held to account and that any malpractice in the appropriation and use of public resources is concerned.

Gender and Women Empowerment.

Communities for Change (CFC) believe that gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world. It is critical to the alleviation of poverty. We believe that gender equality is when men and women have equal power and opportunities for financial independence, education, and personal development. We believe gender equality is when people of all genders have equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities. Gender inequality affects everyone – women, men, trans and gender diverse people, children, and families. It impacts people of all ages and backgrounds. To this end, we work with local communities, community champions, community gatekeepers, local Civil Society actors, local administrations, religious leaders, Ministry of gender and social services, the police service, and other actors in ensuring that the rights of every gender are upheld and that practices that tend to hold back any gender are delt with in accordance with the law.

Education and Advocacy.

Education opens a society to opportunities. We are strongly convinced that a society that has educated people is far much better than one that does not have educated people. Educated people can compete effectively for opportunities in all spheres. When people are educated, their employability is high and so does their ability to start and run successful businesses.

CFC advocates for the rights of every child to access education and that they must be facilitated by the Government through their parents or guardians. We work closely with the community members, community leadership, local administration, Faith Based actors, Civil Society Organizations, Ministry of Education, and law enforcement agencies.

According to the 2019 National Census, Kenya has a population of 47.6Million people out of which 75% are below the age of 35 years. This huge constituent implies that the greatest potential for success or failure lies in how Kenya as a country harness and utilizes their potential.

At CFC, we believe that the youth are a critical pillar in development as their levels of innovation, uptake of technology is high. They can also be a dangerous group if they are not well and closely managed. Majority of innovations come from this group and similarly majority of the crime and radicalization comes from the same age bracket.

We work with the youth in identifying what their potential is and train them inorder to sharpen their skills in their areas of strength then link them to financial institutions such as banks and microfinance institutions from where they can access financing to start off their businesses. We are convinced this way, they are able to create employment for others and generate income through which they can sustain themselves and those who largely depend on them.

A lot of climate change commitments have been done by various leaders across the world and here in Kenya it is not an exception. We have had the 9th Summit of Council of Governors in Kenya held in Wote, Makueni county commit to the fight against climate change. During COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, we had tough talks and emotional speeches on the fight against Climate change but the fruits are yet to be seen.

At CFC, we have taken it upon ourselves to what we best can and have partnered with Reforestation Kenya to carry out activities which we consider as of great impact to the communities that we work with. We have continued to pursue the communities to carry out tree planting and have given ourselves a target of 5Million trees by 2025 with targets set for each year. We intend to work with about 20,000 households to achieve this.

We are working closely with the community members to do rainwater harvesting inorder to reduce the biting water shortage in the rural areas. We work closely with donors and friends to procure water tanks and facilitate installation of the same to help the communities harvest water which they can use for domestic purposes as well as small agricultural use.

We are working with the community and encouraging them to explore alternative sources of fuel as opposed to cutting down of trees for firewood, charcoal burning among others. This will ensure that trees thrive and underground water levels come up since evaporation will not be as severe as it is when the land is exposed directly to sunlight. We are exploring and talking to donors for possible support to help the communities come up with biogas production plants which can be used as alternative source of fuel.