Practical Action Eastern Africa

Regional Office in Nairobi

The operations of Practical Action’s regional office in Nairobi are consolidated across four geographical clusters spread across the northern, central, and southwest parts of Kenya. These are: Somali and Karamoja clusters in the north, the Lake Victoria cluster in the south west of the country and the Nairobi-Nakuru cluster in central Kenya.

The work carried out by Practical Action regional office in Kenya is centred on three themes:

• Reducing vulnerability
  To strengthen the ability of poor women and men to use technology to cope with threats to their livelihoods from natural disasters, environmental degradation and civil conflict.
• Making markets work for poor people
  To enable poor women and men to use technologies effectively in systems of production, processing and marketing to build secure livelihoods.
• Improving access to infrastructure services
  To improve the access of poor women and men to locally managed infrastructure services.

The three areas of work are supervised and guided by the three programme team leaders – Willie Tuimising, Jane Mung’oma and Isaack Oenga. The programme implementation team consists of project managers who are responsible for managing the different projects that come under each broad theme area.

In addition, there is also a Quality Assurance and Fundraising Unit, which incorporates: fundraising, communications and the resource centre. The Unit not only provides support to the organization by giving inputs to evaluation and monitoring of projects and by liaising with donors and funding organizations but also facilitates information sharing of the project experiences, profile raising and financial support for the organisation. It aims to strengthen Practical Action-EA's presence as a lead authority in poverty alleviation through the use of appropriate technologies and processes within the East Africa region. The Eastern Africa office is managed by the Eastern Africa Regional Director, Jan Coffey.

History of Practical Action in Eastern Africa

Vacancy: Project Officer – Water
Responsible for overseeing the implementation of water project activities within the Lodwar area, and specifically for designing and implementing strategies that enable the communities to effectively and profitably manage water resources within the cluster while adding value to the existing environment. Further information »

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