Our Programs:
Presently Pact Kenya is implementing a number of programmes and projects throughout Kenya and across border. 

Kenya Civil Society Strengthening Programme (KCSSP)
KCSSP is a three-year capacity-building program jointly implemented by Pact Kenya and Pact, Inc. It aims to strategically target those NGOs and civil society actors with the greatest potential to build large constituencies for critical reforms needed in the democracy & governance and natural resource management (NRM) sectors.  KCSSP is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and started in September 2006. KCSSP currently supports seventeen? organizations on projects focusing on legislative and policy change, support to Parliament, anti-corruption, environmental justice and biodiversity conservation.
It has also recently received extra funds to strengthen organisations responding to the post election violence n Kenya. 

PEACE II Programme
The Peace in East and Central Africa Phase II (PEACE II) is a USAID funded regional conflict management program covering the border areas of the ‘northern arc’ of Kenya and its neighbors – Somalia, Ethiopia, Southern Sudan and Uganda. 

At the highest level the PEACE II Program seeks to contribute to the enhancement of African leadership in the management of conflict in the Horn of Africa.   In particular, PEACE II intends to improve the ability of communities and community-based organizations - especially peace committees - to respond to conflict including by strengthening the linkages between those communities and the wider civil society as well as government at local and regional levels in the border areas of this region.

The Msambweni and Diani Chale Coast and Marine Conservation & Livelihoods Enhancement Project
This is a new two year project (launched July 10th 2008) funded through a grant to the Government of Kenya for the Community Development Trust Fund Community Environment Facility supported by DANIDA and SIDA.

The objective of the project is to support the role of local communities in Msambweni District to engage effectively with other key stakeholders in the sustainable co-management of coastal and marine resources in Msambweni and Diani Chale areas while enhancing the local benefits and livelihoods gained from those resources. 

The “Sustainable Utilization of Land and Marine Biodiversity in Shimoni Vanga Locally Managed Marine Area” Project
The goal of this UNDP GEF/SGP funded project is to provide Shimoni Vanga community with knowledge and skills necessary to embrace alternative livelihood options in order to catalyze and effect systemic change that ensures long-term and sustainable utilization of land (soils, forests, woodlots, traditional crops) and marine (fishery, sea grass, crustaceans etc) resources. In effect, alternative livelihoods will relieve pressure on the sea, reef and mangrove forest resources, currently under threat through over extraction and unsustainable exploitation.

The Self Help Group Approach
In partnership with Kindernothilfe (KNH), a German Foundation, Pact Kenya is helping develop the potential of women in Kenya by empowering very poor women economically and socially (and politically) so they can live a life of greater hope and dignity with their children and the community around them.

Pact Kenya is providing sub grant management and technical capacity building to 11 NGOs and CBOs in Kenya to promote the Self-Help Group Approach.  Pact Kenya is the National Coordinator for the Self Help Approach overseeing 11 Promoting Organisations which are supporting the SHGA across Kenya.  Pact Kenya is also a promoting organisation in Mtwapa, Kilifi District.

The Self Help Group Approach for Women enables very poor women to help themselves to address the challenges they face caused by extreme poverty.  By enabling the poor to come together in savings and loans groups the Self Help Group Approach is an instrument not only for combating poverty but doing it in a principled and sustainable way.   It empowers very poor women primarily economically and socially, but also even politically, so they can have more control over their lives and provide better for their families.

Burguret River Water Users Association (BRWUA) (For And On Behalf Of The Mt Kenya Biodiversity Conservation Group) (MtKBCG)
With funding from the EU, Pact Kenya is providing institutional capacity building for the Burguret River Water Users Association (BRWUA) and Mt Kenya Biodiversity Conservation Group (MtKBCG) for integrated Burguret River Basin management and conservation, supporting the rehabilitation and restoration of the degraded riverine/riparian and catchment vegetation along the Burguret River for enhanced environmental management, supporting and promoting community-run on-farm and nature-based enterprises, which contribute to improved livelihoods and sound environmental management and improving water quality and quantity of the Burguret River to reduce water-borne diseases and support livelihood activities  

The Government of Kenya and Civil Society Collaboration Research Project.
The aim of this 6 month project, funded by the Aga Khan Foundation, is to try and push forward good practice in the area of Government/Civil Society Collaboration in Kenya.  Through research into the conceptual basis, the comparative efforts of other countries and practical case studies of recent good and less good collaborations in Kenya it is planned that a framework can be developed that will guide improved G/CS collaboration in the future.