Organization
Green Operations in Leadership and Development (Gold Kenya)
Mission
Our mission is to realize youth responsibility towards community development and capacity building to constantly achieve sustainable mobilization of resources, a knowledgeable and self- reliant community. Entrepreneurship, business development and innovation of the youth are core in our mission to achieve a clean and healthy environment.
Organizational Expertise
Capacity Building, Climate/Environment, Livelihoods, Monitoring and Evaluation, Policy Development, Research, Technology and Fuel R&D
Technologies & Fuels
Biomass (Ag. Residue, Processed Biomass, etc.), Pellets / Briquettes, Solar
Clean Cooking Activities
The organization invests in the innovations of the youth in renewable energy and seeks to support the most vulnerable through awareness creation and capacity building. Basically, through supporting local businesses and enterprise-level innovations cutting across innovations on fuel product design, performance, processing, marketing and distribution or business models our organization forges the future of the youth in sustainability. Further, through development, research and design, we seek to drive disruptive change in renewable technologies and fuels. We are tirelessly involved in the empowerment of the youth step by step, in design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the youth’s efforts and integrating laboratory design with field, user testing assessment and improving manufacturing processes, to reach the goal of high performing technologies. The effectiveness, efficiency and affordability of these cook stoves to the grassroots is vital and that is why market initiatives and partnership for microfinance is a key consideration and a priority activity to make them accessible by the most poor.
Finally, making success stories, publishing and disseminating valuable lessons from research organizations to the sector is required for successful commercialization, capacity building and scaling up (Technology transfer) for new innovations is a priority activity.
Partnership
The youth are the major proponents and key recipient of innovations. Working with the youth, our organization would wish to be part of a partnership that involves the youth in productivity and benefits they long struggles to make it in life. Through this partnership, there is some light at the end of the tunnel. Through our expertise in the environmental field and the professional qualifications of our staff, we would be honored to implement projects, be part of and/or propose innovations, carry out capacity building, research, monitoring and evaluation.
While renewable energy and clean cook stoves specifically is a major field in which the youth are seeking refuge in through their wide range of innovations, various things are not yet known. Our organization will seek to fill the knowledge gaps through inducing the youths in more environment aware innovations and research.
The dynamism of cook stove investments are wide by scope and unless we seek adequate and holism in filling the gaps including studies in project parameters such as like sales of cook stoves, rates of adoption, fuel savings and collection time, and household air pollution; we cannot succeed in saving lives, empowering the youth, women, disabled, improving livelihoods, and protecting the environment. Public awareness, proper use, scaling up of successful project impacts positively on human health. These are within the scope of our organization and we believe go a long way in the success of our common interest.
Regions Operating In
Sub-Saharan Africa
Country Based In
Kenya
Address
69234
Ongoza Njia Community Development Centre
Nairobi, Nairobi City County 00622
Website
Primary Point of Contact
Name: Mr. Anthony Karani
Title: Director, Programmes
Email: akarani@goldkenya.org
Phone: +254702876325
Secondary Point of Contact
Name: Ms. Janice Adhiambo
Title: Project Coordinator -Environment
Email: jaydesambs@yahoo.com
Phone: +254702844820
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