Program Areas: Our Focus
1. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
Overall Goal: To achieve good environmental governance, sustainable natural resources management, and widespread sustainable development, ensuring the integrity of environmental resources (including water) and contributing to SDGs (poverty/hunger, environmental sustainability, partnerships) and national/international priorities (Kenya Constitution 2010, Vision 2030).
Objectives
Foster Equitable and Sustainable Water Governance
This objective focuses on strengthening the frameworks and capacities necessary for communities and institutions to manage water resources effectively and fairly.
Foster Equitable and Sustainable Water Governance
This objective focuses on strengthening the frameworks and capacities necessary for communities and institutions to manage water resources effectively and fairly.
Drive Evidence-Based Decision-Making and Adaptive Learning
This objective focuses on ensuring that IWRM interventions are informed by robust data, continuous monitoring, and systematic learning processes.
- Gender and Water/ Gender mainstreaming in water
Overall Goal: To achieve holistic gender mainstreaming and youth inclusivity in water governance, ensuring meaningful participation across all levels, influencing policies, strengthening institutions, and fostering equitable and sustainable water resource management for all.
Objectives
Strengthen Inclusive Capacities and Leadership for Equitable Water Governance
This objective aims to build the knowledge, skills, and confidence of diverse groups to effectively engage in and lead water management processes, recognizing that gender mainstreaming benefits everyone.
Enhance Gender-Responsive Water Policy and Implementation
This objective focuses on influencing policy frameworks at all levels to be gender-sensitive and ensuring that existing policies are effectively translated into practice, beyond mere documentation.
Increase Meaningful Participation and Representation in Water Decision-Making
This objective aims to dismantle structural barriers and create inclusive spaces that enable women and youth to actively contribute to and shape water governance decisions.
Strengthen Inter-Institutional Coordination and Collaboration for Systemic Gender Mainstreaming
This objective focuses on addressing broader institutional challenges beyond WRUAs by fostering stronger partnerships and aligning efforts across sectors for a holistic impact on gender mainstreaming in water.
- Climate Change, Food Security, and Conflict Management / Water-Climate-Food-Energy Nexus
Overall Goal: To enhance the resilience of vulnerable communities against the impacts of climate change, ensuring sustainable food security and fostering peaceful coexistence in resource-scarce regions through improved agricultural practices, effective conflict resolution, and integrated natural resource management.
Objectives
Promote Climate-Resilient Agricultural Practices to Enhance Food Security.
Objective: To support farmers and communities in adapting to climate change through sustainable agricultural practices that ensure long-term food security.
Strengthen Community Resilience to Climate Change Impacts.
Objective: To enhance the ability of communities to cope with and recover from climate-induced stresses, such as droughts and floods, which threaten food security and livelihoods.
Enhance Conflict Management and Peacebuilding in Resource-Scarce Areas.
Objective: To reduce resource-based conflicts exacerbated by climate change through effective conflict resolution mechanisms and collaboration among affected communities.
Promote Sustainable Land and Water Resource Management to Prevent Resource-Based Conflicts.
Objective: To ensure equitable and sustainable management of land and water resources, reducing conflicts over these critical resources in a changing climate.
Advocate for Gender-Responsive Climate Change Adaptation and Food Security Initiatives.
Objective: To ensure that women and marginalized groups are actively involved in climate adaptation strategies, food security planning, and conflict management efforts.
- Organizational Development and Knowledge management
Overall Goal: To establish and continually improve robust internal systems and practices that foster institutional learning, thereby ensuring CESPAD’s long-term organizational capacity, effectiveness, and adaptability.
Objectives
Foster internal knowledge sharing and collaborative learning.
Purpose: To ensure that organizational knowledge and insights are effectively captured, shared, and utilized across all teams and levels, thereby promoting a learning culture.
Cultivate a vibrant and enabling environment for creativity and innovation.
Purpose: To foster a dynamic organizational culture that motivates staff, recognizes contributions, and encourages continuous improvement and novel solutions.
Enhance external communication and knowledge dissemination for effective stakeholder engagement.
Purpose: To effectively communicate CESPAD’s impact, insights, and beneficiary perspectives to partners, collaborators, and donors, thereby building trust and demonstrating organizational effectiveness.
Improve accountability and effectiveness of ongoing programmatic activities.
Purpose: To ensure that all organizational and programmatic activities are rigorously monitored, evaluated, and reported on, leading to enhanced results and demonstrable impact.
Build and strengthen a viable, diverse, and sustainable resource mobilization and funding base for organizational development.
Purpose: To ensure the long-term financial sustainability and strategic growth of CESPAD through diversified funding sources and effective resource management.
Enhance organizational financial management systems and structures.
Purpose: To ensure the establishment and maintenance of robust, transparent, and accountable financial systems that support organizational growth, compliance, and effective resource utilization.