Our History
Founded within the umbrella of Koinonia Community, a lay Christian Organization operating several projects of human development in Kenya, Zambia and Southern Sudan, Koinonia Advisory Research and Development Services (KARDS) is a Community Development Consultancy, which has uniquely positioned itself in the empowerment arena. KARDS was officially inaugurated on February 4th 2002.
KARDS has a special focus to build the capacity of organizations and training community based staff in Eastern and Central Africa, Great lakes region and the horn of Africa. This is under the assumption that when community workers are empowered with relevant skills, knowledge attitudes and competencies, they will contribute greatly in making development endeavours more sustainable and able to address community needs.
KARDS is a Non-profit making Community Development Consultancy with a specific task of ennobling all agents of transformation in various communities improve their management capability. KARDS serves Communities, Community Based Organizations (CBOs), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Church and Church related organizations and corporate institutions by providing Consultancy, Training, Research And Resource Mobilization Services.
The need for KARDS
KARDS is an affordable alternative to consultancy especially to the Community Based Organizations (CBOs), Non Profit Organizations (NPOs), Self Help groups, small and grassroots village organizations who are most likely not able to access training, research and consultancy services because of high costs.
In serving the poor KARDS is committed to contribute significantly to integral human development. KARDS therefore encourages small development efforts to be relevant, sustainable, equitable and therefore successful.
Context of KARDS work
Increasing poverty where men, women and children have no access to social amenities. In this case poverty cuts across social, economic, political, cultural and gender aspects of life. We can therefore not limit it to lack of or insufficient access to food, health care, inadequate shelter, education or inadequate income and sanitation. There is much more.
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