Taka ni Pato Project
Project Description
Duration
2007-2009
Target location
Kiambiu Sub Location, Pumwani Division, Soweto/Kibera
Partner
Ford Foundation
Beneficiaries
The total number of the people expected to benefit from the project interventions directly is estimated at 5000, which works to roughly 1000, per TNP partner organisation. The indirect beneficiaries are estimated at 10,000. The total number of people living in the informal settlements that the TNP partners are working in is approximately 60% of the population of the slum dwellers in Nairobi. Those who are benefiting from life skills sensitisation activities are at least 70% of the slum dwellers of the selected informal settlements.
Project Purpose
The project purpose is to: have a sustainable approach to community-based waste management enterprises to improve quality of life and livelihoods in selected informal settlements in Nairobi developed and operationalized.
Taka Ni Pato Project is an initiative bringing together five agencies to partner together for profitable community solid waste management. The five organisations include: Carolina for Kibera, Maji na Ufanisi, Pamoja Trust, Riruta Environmental Group (REG) and Kenya, Environmental Sanitation and Health Organisation (KESHO).
Taka Ni Pato (Trash is Cash) project works towards source separation, reuse and recycling of waste as a way of waste management and income generating activity to the CBOs. In TNP project Maji Na Ufanisi is in Soweto East-Kibera and Kiambiu village in Kamukunji constituency.
As put across by former UN Secretary General, to achieve the MDGs we have to involve the youths and work with them, Maji Na Ufanisi is working with Soweto Youth Group in Kibera and Kiambiu Youth Group in Kiambiu to implement the project.
Project Results/Outputs
- Partnership administrative and management arrangements fully established and operational
- Appropriate technologies and techniques in source separation, waste collection, transportation and recycling, identified, developed and utilised
- Community-managed solid waste management income generating enterprises identified and supported.
- Small-scale-cottage industries identified, established and operational
- Capacity of Community based organisations/groups (CBOs) to undertake the project outputs and activities established and facilitated
- Gender equality and empowerment promoted
- Policy Advocacy strategies supported
- Management Information (MIS) system established and operational