Who We Are
Background information
Community Research in Environment and Development Initiatives (CREADIS) is a local NGO registered by the NGOs Coordination Board and working in Bungoma County for the last 20 years. Its offices are located in Bungoma Town but it works in all the 9 sub-counties of Bungoma. CREADIS aims at empowering communities by building their capacities in key areas of development, using a holistic approach that enables them become self-reliant and drive their own development processes.
Our Vision
CREADIS is “For the people of Western Kenya to achieve and sustain a better quality life for all.
Our Mission
To empower communities improve and sustain their livelihood, by building their capacities to exploit their full potential, demand efficient services from public institutions, justice, democracy and good governance
Overall Objectives
To reduce poverty and empower the poor, disadvantaged and vulnerable communities in order for them to achieve sustainable livelihoods and live dignified lives by building their capacities to enable them exploit their full potential and drive their own development process.
Objectives of CREADIS
- To build the institutional capacity of CREADIS in order to improve effectiveness in service delivery to comm
- To promote food security by improving productivity and yields through building capacity of small holder farmers, providing access to certified seed, transfer of improved varieties from researchers to farmers and linking farmers to financial institutions and marke
- To strengthen and coordinate community-based health and nutrition programs, targeting people living with HIV/AIDS, orphans and vulnerable children, the poor and the disadvantage
- To promote and advocate for a safe and healthy environment through sustainable land and water management practices, including conservation agriculture, water catchment protection (spring protection, river bank protection, soil erosion control and rehabilitation of degraded areas), agro-forestry, tree planting systems rain water harvesting and improved sanitation, and promotion of energy saving s
- To promote and advocate for good governance and gender equity, equality and main streaming for sustainable developme
- To create opportunities for rural employment and sustainable livelihoods especially for women and youth through improvement of technical skills such as in Agribusiness, value addition to agricultural produce and agro-processing technique
- To promote access to quality basic education for all while building competencies and enabling learners learn at the right level and ensure that each learner can read with comprehension and reason with numbers.
