Who We Are
MSDP, more than 20 years’ experience at grassroots level
MSDP has a track record of working together with Mukuru’s community to uplift poverty among informal settlement residents. The unique model of MSDP is to work holistically with right holders such as person with disabilities, women, teenage mothers, youth, street connected children and caregivers.
The primary focus of MSDP’s programming is to increase social and economic opportunities for children, women and youth, ensuring access to quality education, safeguarding social protection for women and children, and development of life skills among the young generation.
MSDP’s history
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Mukuru Slums Development Project (MSDP) has more than twenty years of experience in implementing social and economic empowerment projects in informal settlements targeting the most vulnerable population of Mukuru slums.
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MSDP started in 2002 as seven (7) Community Based Organizations (CBOs) with funding from the Sisters of Mercy congregation. The CBOs came together and registered as a Kenyan NGO on 15th March 2006. MSDP has a track record of implementing donor funded projects with value for money and the will to have the highest impact on the most vulnerable people…
A transformed society where everyone has access to basic needs and where social justice and human rights are the pillars of human growth
Improving the living conditions for women, children and youth living in informal settlements in Kenya through transformative social and economic empowerment programs.
- Commitment of Service to the poor
- Human Rights
- Team spirit
- Professionalism
- Responsibility and accountability
- Integrity
- Being sensitive to all cultures and protocols
People centred programming
- 100% of MSDP’s programming involves consultation with and capacity building of children, youth and caregivers.
- We use proven community dialogue tools to strengthen capacity of households and communities to identify drivers of extreme poverty and vulnerability and develop change action plans.
- We empower communities to have a voice and create a mechanism to have County and National Government departments heed that voice and implement development programmes.
Gender mainstreaming
- Gender Equality is an integral part of our programming. MSDP makes sure to include both men and women, boys and girls into their initiatives
- MSDP adopts a ‘do no harm’ approach and aims to eliminate gender inequality in all its projects.
- MSDP projects are designed to support women and girls to reduce the multiple burdens they experience in informal settlements.
Inclusion of those furthest behind
- MSDP maintains a focus on people left furthest behind who experience multi-layered challenges and stigma on top of poverty in particular teenage mothers, GBV survivors, street-connected children, out of school children, youth, people with disabilities and their caregivers.
- MSDP’s project participants’ selection as well as case assessments methods are in place to ensure that people lacking their basic rights and needs access them through our programmes.