Nguzo Africa is an innovative community foundation committed to just, resilient, and prosperous communities. Our mission is to empower people, create economic opportunities and transform communities for prosperity of current and future generations
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Reclaiming the lost power of alternatives, diversity, and solidarity
"Alternatives gives you freedom to choose, innovate and improve. In pre-summit weaving forums, thousands of community leaders wrote and spoke about their struggles to do good to communities."
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Strategic Pillars
Nguzo Africa implements five key development programmes defined by the theory of change and aligned to sustainable development goals. Our flagship strategic pillar is promotion of transformative participatory governance, undertaking civic education, public participation, citizen engagements and undertaking social accountability audits. We promote sustainable agriculture for improved food security, nutrition an incomes. Third, we undertake environment conservation and climate change actions for the good of our planet. We work to improve organisation systems for delivery of mission impact. We built our resilience through raising community resources (in-kind and financial) to sustain our actions.
Pillar 1: Governance, peace, gender equality and social justice
The goal is to promote participatory governance, peace, gender equality, human rights and social justice. This is done through civic education education, facilitating public participation, citizen engagements and undertaking citizen accountability audits.
Pillar 2: Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition
Goal: To improve productivity among small holder farmers for nutrition, food security and incomes.
Pillar 3: Environmental Conservation and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Goal: To tackle climate change crisis, conserve and protect the environment for sustainable development in ASALs and Lake Basin Regions of Kenya. This is done through tree growing in schools, public spaces and promotion of commercial forestry and agroforestry. This pillar also promotes use of renewable energy sources such as solar and biogas. It also also promotes use of improved cook stoves at households to reduce the amount of fuel used for cooking.
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Pillar 4: Organisational excellence
Building excellent sustainable organisations requires investments in terms of time, talent, systems, innovations and technology. Nguzo Africa is constantly building its governance processes to transparent and accountable to communities. It is critical to build robust systems to acclerate our mission impact. The goal is to position Nguzo Africa as a vibrant, innovative and model organisation for effective service delivery.
Pillar 5: Sustainability, resilience and prosperity
Building resilience is a process by which people utilize flexibility to reframe thought patterns and learn to tap into a strengths-based approach to working through obstacles. The goal is to build resilience of Nguzo Africa through community philanthropy and #ShiftThePower, social enterprises development, innovations and catalytic investments.
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Theory of Change
“Community have power, resources, skills and people to take charge of their own development. Communities need empowerment, skills and connections to realise their potential.” This is based on the understanding that if we have an informed and empowered citizenry that is equipped with the relevant knowledge and capabilities that connect to their own issues and guided by values, then the citizens will be better positioned to take personal and collective responsibility, to work together, and meaningfully engage with relevant stakeholders and continuously offer sustainable local solutions on pressing challenges that affect them.
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