Practical Action Strategic Business Plan 2017 - 2020

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Strategic Business PlanKenya2017 - 2020

Transforming the way technology is used to improve the lives of people living in, or vulnerable to, poverty

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About Practical ActionWith 50 years of expertise, Practical Action has a strong heritage, and track record.

Practical Action works with communities to find practical, lasting solutions that help people lift themselves out of poverty while safeguarding the planet.

The organization is active in 45 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America, delivering clean water and sustainable

energy, improving food security and reducing the risk of natural disasters, demonstrating that

technology holds the answer to many of the world’s problems and has the power to transform lives.

Practical Action’s work is people focused, locally relevant, environmentally

sensitive and offers tangible ways out of poverty. The

organization has carved a niche in demonstrating

alternatives, sharing knowledge

and influencing change.

Strategic Business Plan 2017 - 2020

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Practical Action in East Africa

Practical Action Eastern Africa (formerly ITDG-EA) has worked in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan and Ethiopia since the mid-80s. With the regional headquarters in Kenya, Practical Action has field offices in Lodwar (covering the Karamoja Cluster in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia), Kisumu (covering the Lake Victoria Basin Region) and Rwanda.

Practical Action - Eastern Africa Regional Office

Headquarters is Located in

Nairobi,Kenya

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Strategic IntentBy 2030, Practical Action’s ambition is to have transformed the way technology is used to improve the lives of people living in, or vulnerable to, poverty. Our Strategic Business Plan 2017 – 2020 reflects how we will start this journey in Kenya and the rest of the East Africa Region.The Strategic Intent for 2030 builds on a strong organizational heritage, working with communities in the development and use of technology to improve their lives. It focuses on investing much greater efforts to reach out and work with others, and to inspire wider systemic change.

Our Framework for ChangeOur Framework for Change provides a model of how we believe change can happen. We believe that lasting change requires a systemic approach to understanding problems at their root causes, the opportunities for making change at different levels and the barriers faced by different groups, especially women. We recognise that no organisation alone can bring about these changes. To succeed, we will need to engage and inspire practitioners, policy-makers, markets, funders and communities working together.

We believe that technology is a key enabler of human development and that technological innovation has the power to propel us into a better world.

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DemonstratePartnering with people

using technology to find practical solutions that work, Sustainably.

Transforming the way technology is used to improve the lives of people living in, or

vulnerable to poverty

Inspire Working to achieve specific policy and practice change;

and building a global constituency of support for

our cause

Learnfrom our work, and others’,capturing

evidence, and adapting our approach to

maximise impact.

Framework For Change

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Target BeneficiariesWe will focus on working with people who are living in poverty, or vulnerable to poverty primarily in an urban context.We will pay special attention to women, and other marginalized groups, since they often have least access to technology, and their needs are often overlooked.

a) Disaster Risk Reduction Practical Action ensure

that national and local planning for disaster preparedness and response is inclusive and informed by priorities of people living in poverty especially those that are most marginalized.

Technology Sectors and GoalsGoal: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)Sub-Goal: Enabled Communities Driving DRRChange Ambition by 2020: Practical Action will partner with stakeholders to ensure that national investments are informed by the risk reduction priorities of disaster vulnerable communities and specifically approaches to minimise or mitigate the impact of floods and drought.

How we will achieve this? Practical Action will partner with local government to advocate for an enabling policy and legal environment towards reducing disaster risks. This will ensure that national and local planning for disaster preparedness and response is inclusive and informed by priorities of people living in poverty especially those of the most marginalized. Practical Action will ensure the engagement of the voice of communities in DRR analysis, planning and action and build DRR capacity on climate smart information amongst others.

Geographic Locations: Lake Victoria Basin and the Karamoja Cluster

Target Beneficiaries:30,000 people living in ASALs and a further 150,000 people living in urban and peri-urban areas

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b) Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Practical Action will improve access to clean water for informal slum dwellers, scale up access to sanitation and embed hygiene behavior change messages throughout our work including aspects of menstrual hygiene management.

Goal: Urban Services/WASHSub-Goal: WASH

Change Ambition by 2020: Primarily through a community led total sanitation approach, Practical Action will ensure that communities have access to improved water, sanitation and hygiene aiming for ‘safely managed’ services as defined by SDG6.

How we will achieve this?This will be achieved by promoting the uptake of decentralized and appropriate low-cost technologies and systems delivered through partnerships with informal and formal service providers to improve access to clean water for informal slum dwellers and scaling up access to sanitation and embedding hygiene behaviour change messages throughout our work including aspects of menstrual hygiene management. Importantly, understanding the gender dimensions of different technologies and systems for WASH and promoting women as key decision makers at the local level.

Geographic Locations: Primarily Urban Areas ( currently focusing on the Northern Rift and the Lake Victoria Basin)

Target Beneficiaries:150,000 people living in low-income urban settlements

Goal: Urban Services/WASHSub Goal: Solid Waste Management

Change Ambition by 2020:Practical Action will demonstrate improved waste management systems in urban/informal settlements in Kenya.

How we will achieve this?Practical Action will work with primarily informal settlements communities to improve the waste management solutions in their communities through behavioural change campaigns, promoting waste separation and collection systems that work for poor communities. We will continue to partner with local governance to ensure that decentralised solid waste management is embedded in policy and practice. Practical Action will work with informal waster workers to improve their livelihoods, working conditions and social status through PMSD and other approaches in particular waste value chains.

Geographic Locations:Urban Areas (focusing on the Northern Rift and the Lake Victoria Basin)

Target Beneficiaries:300,000 people living in low-income urban settlements.

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c) Energy Practical Action

will work to improve access to energy services for off grid and resource poor communities through promotion of decentralized energy systems, clean cooking and fuels.

Goal: EnergySub Goal: Clean Fuels and CookingChange Ambition by 2020:Practical Action will demonstrate models for women entrepreneurship, financing and delivery to underserved market segments

How we will achieve this?Practical Action will apply market systems approaches to inspire government, donors and CSOs to embrace responsible market facilitation while promoting new approaches to stimulate demand for higher tier cook stoves and fuels. Furthermore, Practical Action will work to ensure clean cooking sits in the right place in policy making.

Geographic Locations: Urban and Rural Areas

Target Beneficiaries:1.5 million people in rural areas and low-income urban settlements.

Goal: EnergySub Goal: Decentralized Energy Systems

Change Ambition by 2020:Practical Action will focus on influencing donors and large organizations/institutions to adopt its gender, social inclusion and market systems development models for decentralized energy services.

How we will achieve this?Practical Action will leverage its experience in the training and mentoring of last mile energy businesses while inspiring other public and private sector actors to collaborate and adopt the model. The organization will work with private manufacturers/distributors and social marketing organizations to ensure the understanding of last mile consumers and suppliers. Furthermore, Practical Action will facilitate energy service delivery for refugees and displaced persons.

Geographic Locations: Rural Areas

Target Beneficiaries: 1.5 million people in rural areas

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PartnersInspiring others is pivotal to our framework for change: inspiring others to support us and join us in pursuit of our ambition to change the way technology is used to improve the lives of people living in, or vulnerable to poverty. We would like to thank all the partners who have walked with us in our 50-year journey.

Republic of Kenya County Governments

Practical Action - Eastern Africa Regional Office1st Floor, Methodist Ministries Centre (Office Block C)P. O. Box 39493-00623 Nairobi, KenyaTel: +254 (0) 20 2595311/12/13/14/15E-mail: kenya.general@practicalaction.or.keWebsite: www.practicalaction.org/east-africa

Strategic Business Plan2017 - 2020