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Welcome to Civic Action for Sustainable Development (CASD) site CASD-KENYA is a registered National Charitable Organization in Kenya, We attest to the fact that the process of empowering the poor and marginal sections is by these sections to express their own analysis and strategies to overcome their powerlessness and poverty:
CASD is based on the believe that the process of empowering the poor and marginal sections, including differently-abled individuals needs adoption of participatory principles which provide space for these sections to express their own analysis and strategies to overcome their powerlessness and poverty. There is a role of development agencies in this regard, be it NGOs, CBOs, government or any other, which is for facilitation of such participatory processes of development. There is a need to build new institutions (NGOs, CBOs, etc.), and to nurture the existing organisations which practice participatory principles and best practices, to enhance the impact of participatory development processes. Influencing government, the biggest player in eradication of poverty, on adopting participatory principles for facilitating people centred development processes.
Our empowerment program seek to address the attitudes of communities towards development and the need for them to participate in it, since it had been noted that the community have for a long time depended on external expertise to solve their own problems.
Our participation would unearth problems within the community, resources they had and how best to address the problems from the community's perceptive with special reverence to the child.
