AICAD KENYA COUNTRY OFFICE (KCO)

Prof. Josephine Ouma

KCO Country Director.

Background

The AICAD Kenya Country Office (KCO) was established in the year 2000. It is situated within Egerton University, Utafiti Building, 3rd floor in Njoro Sub-county of Nakuru County. Its mandate is the development, implementation and coordination of activities and programs aimed at reducing poverty in Kenya through capacity building on identified needs through linking knowledge to application. The organization’s programmes and activities are funded by the three governments of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania and other partners. The AICAD-KCO is headed by Prof. Josephine Ouma as the Country Director. She works with her team of Mr. Joseph Mwenda as the Assistant Country Director, Mr. Geoffrey Rotich, the Programmes Officer, Ms Eunice Nyambura, the Administration and Finance Assistant and Mr. Charles Nyamu as the Liaison Officer.

Programmes

AICAD’s main objective is poverty alleviation, by building the local capacities of the beneficiaries to solve their problems. To achieve this, KCO works with public universities and government line ministries to filter and apply those aspects of research that are of practical significance to targeted users. The partner public universities in Kenya include; JKUAT, Egerton University, Kenyatta University, Moi University, Maseno University, MMUST and University of Nairobi. During its earlier years and with the generous support of JICA, AICAD played useful roles in supporting young institutions, individual researchers (through graduate student’s research) and communities as part of capacity building strategy. Apart from Research and Development, KCO has carried out most its activities under Training and Extension (T&E) division .Under Information Networking Documentation and Marketing division (IND&M), KCO has continued sharing human promising stories arising from the trainings conducted through the annual reports, mainstream media, Egerton University newslink and other channels.

KCO has conducted activities over 24 counties of Kenya out of the 47 counties.

RECENTS TRAININGS AND EVENTS

OUR CONTACTS

Address :- AICAD COUNTY OFFICE KENYA (KCO)

Utafiti Building, 3rd Floor, Egerton University

P.O. Box  114-20115 Egerton University

Email:  aicadcountryoffice_kenya@yahoo.com  /  kco@aicad.or.ke                      

Phone number: +254 0726 830 141

Contact persons:

Prof. Josephine Ouma-Country Director

 Joseph Mwenda-ACD

Geoffrey Rotich-PO