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TEK’s main objectives

TEK’s main objectives

Objectives

TEAMEnvironment KENYA’

  • Promote a network of the local youth and community workforce into CBOs and groups that engage in sustainable development. We engage through issue-based approaches towards employing localized solutions in implementing sustainable people-focused and environment-centric endeavors.
  • Establish sustainable value-chains and green job opportunities from climate-smart food and agricultural/commercial/industrial products from comprehensively efficient natural resource management.
  • Sustain cooperation between members and constituent groups while ensuring their autonomy, diversity of activities, dynamism of their ideas, representation of their collective interests and the success of self-empowerment, enhancement and development.
  • Establish a resource centre through which youth and communities gain access to information for analysis, evaluation and dissemination; get vocational/academic training; and other tools they might use in the pursuit of excellence including support  planning, funding, development management and growth of their enterprise.
  • Coordinate small-holder households, individual micro-entrepreneurs, youth groups, community enterprises and youth-focused formal organizations committed to social, economic and environmental sustainability especially to the base of the pyramid (BOP).
  • Promote sustained collaboration with relevant and value-adding cross-sector stakeholders and discourage the unsustainable exploitation of resources and unfair exploitation of community resources at the expense of base of the pyramid societies.
  • Foster accountability among local, regional and national leadership structures by highlighting pertinent, viable, sustainable and ethical issues that need addressing for sustainable development.
  • Help create a new one billion shillings micro-economy among community micro-entrepreneurs.
  • Establishing a national coalition of greening and social enterprise associations operating country-wide and linking internationally.

A membership and partnership strategy has been developed that takes into consideration the various classes of stakeholders including volunteers, individual community members, CBOs, students and their societies/clubs, different types of learning/training institutions, corporate entities, civil societies, county and national government agencies, international organizations, media and other stakeholders.