- As a movement comprising of diverse stakeholder interest, TEK has developed a mode of engagement, exchange and partnership embodies a range of activities to take into account the various external collaborators, partners and stakeholders.TEK works closely with the professionals, business leaders, industry players and the local community members to ensure that the intervention/ mitigation measures are solution-oriented to prevailing environmental challenges. Research and training instill knowledge and skills necessary to innovatively synergize and employ practical solutions to challenges faced in society and the environment.
TEK’s Community and Public Engagements are through:
- provision of direct services – student volunteerism, student placements/internships in member organizations, provision of specialist services (professional or technical e.g. legal advice, environmental impact assessments, energy audits, social impact analysis and local content enhancement, GIS and pictorials, media documentaries), provision of specialist skills (ICT, community/ group work), mentoring, life-long learning, free consultancy and support, contribution to governance via umbrella association membership, board membership, trusteeships, and others.
- Sustainable development work – contributing to capacity building among communities, collaborating with corporate businesses and social enterprises, work with environmental service consumers and special interest groups, civic partnerships with the public, schools and development organizations.
- Engagement in policy and product development and social innovation –research and development, lobby for policy framework development/enforcement at county and national government levels, public services, social enterprises.
- Collaboration with communities -engaging in socio-ecological and economic activities, and employing indigenous capacity/local knowledge in developing conservation survey projects and sustainably implementing them through stakeholder collaborations.
- Discharging ethical responsibilities – disseminating pertinent triple bottom-line information to community members especially concerning socially sensitive research on, for example, developments in green technologies, impact investments, climate-smart initiatives, among others.
- Disseminating information and knowledge development among non-specialist local community members, through events such as camps, public training workshops, public conferences/forums and debates as well as more feedback-generating interactions in public events such as those depicted the United Nations World Environmental Events Calendar.
- Producing content for public use, like Media Documentary Reports, performances and social media outputs.
- Mobilizing the Green Facility initiative – partnering on PPP frameworks in enhancing sustainable utility and management of physical infrastructure, land-use and water catchment management as a resource management practice
- Supporting government agendas – liaising on constitutional, legislative, regulatory and policy provisions in relation to socio-economic and environmental issues for public good, through engaging community participants such as CBOs, FBOs, Youths, Women and PWD’s to widen participation in climate-smart practice and sustainable enterprise.
The TEAMEnvironment KENYA was founded early in 2015 after a year of engaging in team mobilization through various environmental activities by the team leader and founder. Mid that year like minded member organizations officials/representatives met at the Norwich Union House in Nairobi and agreed to constitute a “think tank” that was later to form the steering committee and Board to spearhead its operations.
Early in that year the officials were selected on the basis of the respective organizational capacity to implement on resource mobilization and projects planning, as well as professional/technical contributions.
