Creating capacity of Community Based Organizations to replicate, scale-up and accelerate uptake and implementation of financially sustainable and efficiently managed Maji na Ufanisi’s Youth Managed Business WASH Enterprise Model, which takes in account climate variability and provide for adaptation to promote resilience approaches.
The program is prepared using a participative approach and will be implemented through this approach. The program works actively with the national and county governments, media, CSO’s and communities putting the emphasis on developing their performance and capacities in the sector.
MnU seeks to improve access to livelihood assets and services for women, youth and people with disabilities; Enhance the ability of women and poor and excluded people to exercise voice, influence and agency; and advocate for equity in enactment, implementation and enforcement of the “rules of the game”.
In densely populated slums, problematic market WASH infrastructure, MnU holds its existing successful initiatives in Mombasa and Nairobi as the proof-of-concept to drive policy direction towards supporting and enabling this kind of initiatives at national and county levels.
Maji na Ufanisi uses its growing body of knowledge on what works on the ground to influence decision making, and accelerate implementation through creating the capacity of local institutions to franchise effective and applicable implementation models, while redressing social imbalance through its gender mainstreaming and social inclusion programs.
