Rapado Kenya
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone
OUR APPROACH
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People’s empowerment
People’s empowerment and building strong relationship is the starting point and end goal of RAPADO’s work. We work with community members to build partnerships that enable them to determine priorities and set goals that would empower them to achieve development that transforms their lives. RAPADO believes that full community participation, especially of youths, women and children, will ensure the long-term sustainability of projects and lead to stronger communities.
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Client Focused Outcomes
This focuses on imparting skills, knowledge, providing tools and connecting people to opportunities and information, essential in catalysing them to pursue a life transforming process, this will be achieved through four broad key strategic interventions of ensuring Child welfare and protection; advancing education achievement; Securing Food and livelihood opportunities; and Training and skills development
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Partnership Focused Outcomes
This focuses on building grass root people capacity for engagement with services providers, community centred advocacy, enhancing civic participation and strengthening partnership with direct stakeholders and integration of crosscutting themes in program delivery. This objective has three key strategic interventions that promote Access to basic services delivery; Transforming Partnerships, Collaboration and Networking and Lobbying and Advocacy
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Performance Focused Outcomes
The realization of Client focused outcomes and Partnership focused outcomes, is anchored on the extent of the organization to deploy leadership, skills and competences, management systems and resources at their disposal. To realize a high performing and high achieving organization, RAPADO will require put these critical elements at its best and which will be pursued through four strategic interventions that promote Human Capital Resource Development; Communication and Resource Mobilization; Leadership Development and Management Systems and Succession planning
PROGRAME AREAS
Our Program Areas
RAPADO uses programmatic approach in responding to the past experiences, anticipated environment and recommendations from the evaluation of the last strategic plan. The areas are strategic in addressing the issues that are in the plan 2014-2018
Child protection and welfare
Every child has the right to survive, grow, develop, and participate. In order to exercise those rights, Children at risk should receive supportive cases I safe, family-like and community based environment free from violence, abuse and exploitations. RAPADO is making progress to ensure that children at risk are able to access child protection services. We work with government departments and development partners to help develop and expand the best possible child protection system and structures in the County. RAPADO engages children, families and civil society organizations in strengthening child rights systems.
The Education
Every child has a right to quality basic education. This responsibility is shared between different duty bearers [parents, guardians, government, teachers and institution] it is the responsibility of the state to provide the facilities, parents to send and keep children to school and teachers to impart knowledge and skills. The education program is premised on supporting the provision and improvement of basic education for all children in Kenya. The program endeavours to guarantee equity of access to basic education, while enhancing quality and learning achievements. RAPADO supports communities to build schools while advocating to the government to fulfil her duty to provide services for quality education. The program also advances opportunity for further education training and strengthens education sector management.
Human Rights and Governance
RAPADO advocates for the entrenchment of human rights, good governance and democratic culture in Kenya. The theory of change behind this program is grounded on a right based approach that seeks to empower citizen to engage and participate effectively in both political and development processes. Using this approach, RAPADO supports development of democratic institutions and sustainable mechanism for human rights protection by addressing public policy issues and facilitating civic participation in policy processes. Key engagements include; research, capacity building and information sharing along three continuums; civil society [capacity building of communities on social accountability], state [expansion of democratic space, security, electoral process] and economy [economic policies and budget tracking]
Health & HIV / AIDS
The program pursues a strategy that addresses social determinants of health to holistically support both local and government efforts aimed at addressing causal impacts of HIV in rural families with greater focus on families/households affected by HIV/AIDS. RAPADO in its approach takes cognizance of the existing gap between access to reliable and effective information and health seeking behaviors of the community.
We employs integrated interventions to help address the deeper problem of ill health which includes but not limited to; Promotive and Preventive health services, Water and sanitation, Housing and shelter, Food and nutrition and Psychosocial care. We work in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and in line with The National Health Sector Strategic Plan 11; to implement the Kenya Essential Package of Health through the Community health Strategy.
Peace Building and Conflict Transformation
The protracted nature of conflict in Kenya has led to the adoption of conflict transformation approach and peace building programs. RAPADO is involved in the initiation of peace connector programs and in the strengthening of community led peace structures. The organization has been keen in analysing causes of conflict; enabling mediation and dialogue processes, setting standards of conduct that avert violence and helping to develop skills necessary in conflict resolution using active non-violence approaches. RAPADO conducts policy orientated research and advocacy aimed at promoting sustainable peace
Economic Empowerment
RAPADOs economic empowerment programs are geared to promote inclusive and equitable economic growth among targeted communities and seek to ensure that the poor and vulnerable participate in and benefit from financially viable growth. SILC, JFFLs, SMEs and VSLA are key strategies for implementing economic empowerment programs at the grass root level, while at the Macro level, RAPADO practices effective advocacy and dissemination of information to ensure that poor and susceptible groups benefit equitably. RAPADO continues to link those operating in rural areas with information and awareness in regard to access to markets, innovative technologies, policy regulations and financial services available. In such strategies, we target youth, people with disabilities, and women who are often the most vulnerable segment of the society.
