Welcome to KCDN

This is KCDN, an Environmental Management, Economic Empowerment and Poverty Eradication Civil Society.

We welcome you to our site. Kindly feel free to share with us your thoughts. Ideas that add value will be appreciated. Ideas that want to make us improve our physical environment will be welcome. And more so, ideas that redirect us from the lost cause will be of immense value.

It is us who will improve the lot of our Environment, our Economy and make Kenya a Clean Country, where People join hands to work for our own Economic Emancipation and where Municipal Solid Waste Management is looked at as a resource, not as waste.

We need to set the standards in this region of the World and become the referral point in how a people can join hands and work for their own Economic Liberation, where waste can be used as raw material and become a source of employment for our people.

Our collective actions will surely make a difference. This is why in partnership with our Key Strategic Partners- The Public Service Transformation Department, the National Environment Management Authority, the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation,other key Ministries, the Local Authorities in Kenya, the Provincial Administration, A Better World, Akiba Uhaki Foundation and other Partners, we are moving deliberately in sensitizing and mobilizing Kenyans to work towards A Clean Kenya where waste is separated at source.

And this is why we are inviting Kenyans to join with us in The Clean Kenya Campaign and be a Member of Kimisho Sacco Society Ltd

Welcome.

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Team Leader & Executive Director,
KCDN, KSSL, KICL & TCKC,
Tel; 0724 365 557,
Email; komarockswatch@yahoo.com, kimishodevelopment@gmail.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org.
Showing posts with label Peace Building. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peace Building. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Peace Building in Nandi/Muhoroni

Friends,
Peace Building, being our 2nd Pillar at The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign is of key importance to us at the Clean-up Campaign and to Kenyans generally.
This coming Saturday- the 21st April 2012, we will join with the Residents of Eldoret, the Municipal Council of Eldoret, the Provincial Administration, Eldoret Green Town Initiative, the Centre for Community Dialogue and Development, and many more partners in the Eldoret Clean-up Campaign at Kapsoya Estate.
Before then, on the 19th April, we will be hosting 300 Elders, Women and Youth Leaders each from the Nandi and the Luo side along the common borders in Muhoroni and Nandi Districts for a meeting which will listen to the Resolutions that the two Teams have sent to us.
This will be a friendly meeting where we will all share in brotherhood as we seek a lasting solution to this perennial issue. We are happy to note that healing process is ongoing in some sections of Songor and Tinderet and we will also listen to the key architects of this peace process.
Again, Peace Building is a delicate process and we now want to bring all the Peace Efforts along this area to conclusion. We have had several interventions from many players and it is our considered opinion that the area residents need to be given a break to enable them live in peace and engage in positive acts of developments.
There have also been the issue of careless speeches whose authors care less about the ramification of their speeches. We are inviting all Peace Loving Kenyans not to listen to such careless speeches. When we are hurting, when we are burning our neighbours houses, when we kill each other and when we displace each other, such careless leaders are never there with us.
We never burn their houses.
We never kill their relatives or them.
We never displace them.
And they are always never hurt when we fight.
So, why must we kill and displace each other for people who have never lived in our midst? Time has come when we must confront the hard questions and deal with them in broad day light.
As we invite all the Peace Actors in the region to join us for these meetings at Kibigori and at Chemase on the 19th April 2012, we want to sincerely thank the National Steering Committee on Peace Building and Conflict Management, the DC Muhoroni and the DC Nandi East, the CCDD and all the Friends of KCDN for joining hands in this delicate process.
Lastly, we will be joining with the people of Kitale on the 28th as they launch the Monthly Clean-up Campaign in Kitale then.
In God we trust and in Peace we shall live.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the
ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'- President Barack Obama
of the USA.
 
A Peaceful, Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya at 50 is possible and achievable.

Odhiambo T Oketch

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Multi-Sectoral Peace Building process in Muhoroni

Friends,
Peace Building efforts around the common Nandi Luo Border has taken some very aggressive form. There are many players who are keen on seeing an amicable settlement to the incessant border skirmishes.
To help drive this process forward, there was a Multi-Sectoral Peace Building Forum for active players around the Muhoroni and Nandi Area in Kisumu in an Initiative that was led by the Local Capacities for Peace International and the National Steering Committee on Peace Building and Conflict Management.
L-R; Ms Milliscent Otieno of LCPI, Bishop Jpseph Ochola of the Lutheran Church, Mr. Domnic Odipo of NSCPBCM and Peace Monitor Nyanza Region, Mr. Solomon Abwaku- DC Muhoroni and Odhiambo T Oketch
The meeting was attended by the DC Muhoroni Mr. Solomon Abwaku, Ms Milliscent Otieno of LCPI, Mr. Domnic Odipo- Peace Monitor Nyanza Region with NSCPBCM, Bishop Joseph Ochola of the Lutheran Church and several Peace actors from the Region.
The DC Muhoroni noted that there were several Peace Actors in the region and as such, there was need to coordinate their various interventions without necessarily curtailing their objectives as we avoid duplicating efforts.
Noting that peace was of paramount importance to development, he invited as many more players to come to the Region and offer material support in the healing process. He appreciated the Mennonite Church for the support they recently gave to 10 families who had been without shelter for some time now. They did give 12 Iron Sheets each to some 10 families to help start them up.
The good thing is, Mennonite Church gave the Iron Sheets, the People gave the Timber and the Government provided the labour and this was an effort that proved that we can achieve alot as a united team.
We at The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign are happy that we are part of this Transformative Agenda, and on the 19th April 2012, we will be meeting with almost 300 Elders, Women and Youth Leaders from the Luo at Kibigori Chief's Camp at 10am to go through the Resolutions that the Luo have passed in the on going Peace Process and adopt the same.
On the same date at 2pm, we will meet a similar number from the Nandi to go through their Resolutions and adopt the same. The two Teams are being led by the various Chairmen of the District Peace Committee Mzee Otiato and Mzee Chumo.
The two meetings will be attended by the DC Muhoroni and the DC Nandi East and all Peace Actors and People of Good will are invited to attend.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'- President Barack Obama of the USA. 
A Peaceful, Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya at 50 is possible and achievable.

Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Kenya,
National Coordinator- The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
Tel; 0724 365 557
Blog; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org
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Odhiambo T Oketch is the immediate former Chairman to the City Council of Nairobi Stakeholders Evaluation Team on Performance Contracting and Rapid Results Management. He is also Chair to the Nyamonye Catholic Church Development Fund. He was also the Co-Chair and Coordinator of The Great Nairobi Walk against Corruption that was held in Nairobi on the 22nd October 2010 in partnership with KACC and he is the National Co-ordinator of The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign in Kenya.

.......Moving From Talking to Tasking.......

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The Kitale Clean-up Campaign

Friends,

The Kitale Clean-up Campaign is taking shape.
We had another round of meetings with the Regional Commissioner North Rift and the DC Trans Nzoia West in Kitale today. We then had a second round of meetings with His Worship the Mayor Municipal Council of Kitale, the former Mayor Cllr Werunga and the District Peace Committee Chairman Trans Nzoia West District.
L-R; Mr. Busienei, Odhiambo T Oketch, Mr. Kinyua Wilfred- DC Trans Nzoia West and Ms. Syliva Mongare of KCDN at the DC's office today the 11th April 2012
In the said meetings, we agreed that we will host a Stakeholders Meeting on the 20th April 2012 at the DC's Boardroom with listed Stakeholders as from 10am in the morning.
We will map out the area for the Clean-up and agree on the logistics for the day.
The Clean-up Campaign will be hosted on the 28th April 2012.
On our way back to Eldoret, we were impressed with this Garbage Bin at Moi's Bridge;
Lastly, there will be a preliminary meeting of all the Peace Actors along the Muhoroni Nandi Border at Kisumu and all the Peace Actors in the Region have been invited. 
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'- President Barack Obama of the USA.  
A Peaceful, Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya at 50 is possible and achievable.
Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Kenya,
National Coordinator- The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
Tel; 0724 365 557
Blog; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org
Facebook; Monthly Nationwide Clean up Campaign
Facebook; Odhiambo T Oketch
Odhiambo T Oketch is the immediate former Chairman to the City Council of Nairobi Stakeholders Evaluation Team on Performance Contracting and Rapid Results Management. He is also Chair to the Nyamonye Catholic Church Development Fund. He was also the Co-Chair and Coordinator of The Great Nairobi Walk against Corruption that was held in Nairobi on the 22nd October 2010 in partnership with KACC and he is the National Co-ordinator of The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign in Kenya.

.......Moving From Talking to Tasking.......

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The Kibirigo Chepswerta Peace Treaty

Friends,
The Kalenjins, Luhyas and the Luo around the common border points of Rift Valley, Western and Nyanza Provinces will be signing the Kibigori Chepswerta Peace Treaty on the 22nd April 2012 at 2.00pm in a ceremony that will be attended by the political leadership from the three Regions at Kibigori/Chepswerta.
Mr. Denis CK Kogo of Rift Valley Development Trust, Mr. Daniel Limo of Youth Revival Initiativem Odhiambo T Oketch of KCDN and Mr. David Busienei of Centre for Community Dialogue and Development after their meeting in Nairobi today the 20th March 2012
Peace Building has been the Second Pillar for KCDN and The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign and we have been engaged with our Partners on the Ground for quite some while now.
Our Team on the Ground includes;
  1. The Centre for Community Dialogue and Development,
  2. The Rift Valley Development Trust,
  3. The Youth Revival Initiative, 
  4. and a host of other players.
This Peace Treaty will be presided over by Prof George Saitoti, the Minister for Internal Security and Provincial Administration and will be witnessed by several Members of Parliament, the various Councils of Elders from across Kenya, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission, and many Friends of KCDN.
We are happy to announce that the Rift Valley Development Trust has already pledged Kshs 20,000.00 to help facilitate this process.
This is a People's Initiative and all those who believe in One Kenya under God are invited to lend their support. We are forming a Small Committee to manege this process and as soon as this is done, we will unveil the Team.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'- President Barack Obama of the USA.

A Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya at 50 is possible and achievable.


Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Kenya,
National Coordinator- The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
Tel; 0724 365 557
Blog; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org
Facebook; Monthly Nationwide Clean up Campaign
Facebook; Odhiambo T Oketch

Odhiambo T Oketch is the immediate former Chairman to the City Council of  Nairobi  Stakeholders Evaluation Team on Performance Contracting and Rapid Results Management. He is also Chair to the Nyamonye Catholic Church Development Fund. He was also the Co-Chair and Coordinator of The Great Nairobi Walk against Corruption that was held in Nairobi on the 22nd October 2010 in partnership with KACC and he is the National Co-ordinator of The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign in Kenya.
                         .......Moving From Talking to Tasking........