The Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE) was founded in 2006 and has been working in the coastal region of Kenya, it was established to address democratic governance, socio‐economic and youth concerns with a focus on the coast of Kenya.
The main purpose of Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE) is to promote and facilitate institutionalization of the values and practices of good governance at all levels of society as a basis for sustainable social‐economic development. The organization is registered in Kenya by the government as a Non‐Governmental Organization under Section 10 of the Non‐Governmental Organizations Coordination Act vide certificate number OP.218/051/2006/0324/4307 dated 6th September, 2006. KECOSCE takes recognizance of the fact that the majorities of citizens have not been recognized or effectively involved in public policy processes that impact on their social, economic and political lives. KECOSCE takes recognizance of the fact that the majorities of citizens have not been recognized or effectively involved in public policy processes that impact on their social, economic and political lives.Further, it candidly admits that national and local governments have generally failed in tapping the abundant individual and collective creativity of the people.
This previously was because of over‐centralization of power and malfunctioning governance systems, which led to critical voices of the majority being excluded from the transformation of societies. However due to political transformation as a result of a new and widely viewed as a progressive constitution, KECOSCE has redesigned its strategy and focus to remain relevant and effective in the country’s social, economic and political development process and to mobilize, empower and accompany the grassroots people to take their place at the decision making table and demand for inclusiveness, accountability and people driven actions to shape their socio‐economic and political destiny.
KECOSCE’s current focus is how to identify and nurture people’s creative capacity for social transformation. Firmly believing, unless the structures, pattern and political context of the process of socio‐economic development are appropriately altered or re‐configured to allows voices from the “furrow” to take centre stage, little progress with be achieved towards the realization of sustainable human development, the attainment of MDG’s and the country’s vision 2030.
Therefore KECOSCE programmes are anchored on peoples’ empowerment with the realization that the greatest resource is people and that their active participation is imperative in the transformation and development process. The new focus places more emphasis on the role of the people and their popular organizations as potentially being central to the realization of popular participation. People especially the marginalized and vulnerable have to be fully involved, committed and indeed, seize the initiative. It is in this regard that KECOSCE views creating and strengthening vibrant grass‐root, voluntary and self‐reliant people’s organizations and structures that are rooted in the tradition and culture of the society so as to ensure community empowerment and self‐development.
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