INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND STRENGTHENING

INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND STRENGTHENING This thematic areas aims to strengthen institutions and communities by empowering them with skills and knowledge to develop themselves.   It has the following projects 1. Table Banking-Group Saving and Loaning- Implemented since 2004 with support from community resource Mobilisation and the GLS Foundation for Future Development. The Groups Savings and […]

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HEALTH AND WASH

Health AND WASH In this thematic area we aim to create a healthy disease-free society 1. KICTB  – The Kenya Innovation Challenge Tuberculosis (KIC-TB) project was implemented by Resources Oriented Development Initiatives in Nairobi and Kiambu Counties with financial support from the Global Fund through Amref Health Africa in Kenya, in collaboration with the Ministry

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FOOD SECURITY AND AGROECOLOGY .

In this thematic area  we aim to encourage production and consumption of healthy and toxin free food and enable people gain access to food. This thematic area has the following projects: 4. Integrated Water shed Management and diversification of Farm enterprises (IWAMA DIFE) – Implemented since 2014 with support from PELUM Kenya in Nyeri County

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From inmate to community champion

The Restorative Prisoner Rehabilitation and Re-Integration project aims at supporting offender rehabilitation and Reintegration with a primary focus of equipping prisoners with vocational and life skills to help enhance their self-esteem, hope in life, self-support and to appease and endear ex-prisoners to the community besides enabling them to contribute towards community and national development. Bernard

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The rise of organic farming

Organic agriculture considers the medium- and long-term effect of agricultural interventions on the Agro-ecosystem. It aims to produce food while establishing an ecological balance to prevent soil fertility or pest problems.  Organic agriculture takes a proactive approach as opposed to treating problems after they emerge. (FAO) In the midst of chaos surrounding the fake fertilizer

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Restorative Prisoner Rehabilitation

Since 1994, RODI has partnered with the Kenya Prisons Service in rehabilitation of prisoners in 35 prisons in Kenya. We use a Restorative Prisoner Rehabilitation Approach, which targets the prisoner, the community and the victim(s) to enhance reintegration and reduce the rate of re-offending. In 2004,RODI organized an international workshop called Restorative Justice: Good Prisoner

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Mass tree planting for environmental sustainability and economic empowerment

Over the last 3 years, RODI has been actively involved in mass tree  and growing in 5 counties: Kiambu, Nyandarua, Machakos, Nyeri and Laikipia in Kenya with support by ECOSIA, a search engine that plants trees, through GLS Future Foundation for Development.  The initiative aims at contributing to global reforestation efforts, restoring lost forests, repairing

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Organisational development assessment

In 2022, RODI conduted an organisational development to establish the milestones in organisational growth as well as identify areas of organizational development and capacity-building. The assessment employed a cross-sectional study design composed of in-depth interviews, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), and documents review. The primary data collection targeted RODI Kenya management and staff. The secondary data,

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Enhancing local resource mobilisation and community philanthropy

The initiative is being implemented by Resources Oriented Development Initiatives (RODI) Kenya, through technical and financial support from Global Fund for community Foundations (GFCF). The intervention  is based on the lessons learned during RODI resource mobilisation efforts for human rights work and the need to engage local communities to take part in designing and exercising

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Offender reintegration and Aftercare

Since 1994, RODI has been supporting ex-offenders in their community reintegration and Aftercare with support from Tudor Trust GLS Future Foundation for Development and Bread for the World. The  process involves follow up of trained prisoners upon release and working with them and their home communities to provide technical backstopping during the reintegration  and after-care

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