Kared-Fod Women Development Programme (KAWODEP) is a non-partisan, non-profit making registered as an NGO in March 2012, before then we had functioned as a CBO from 1990.

The thrust behind the formation of KAWODEP was the continued deterioration of the living standards of the locals despite the intervention measures by the government departments. In the community, the girls/women were denied education. They remain easy prey to traditional attitude and unsrupulous, thus perpetuating their own low status and the vicious cycle of ignorance, powerlessness and neglect in which they find themselves. It is on this basis that the organization was initiated to work together with the local community (women) to improve the status of women and girls. KAWODEP is therefore the brainchild of the local women in their effort to advance the human rights of women and girls and reduce the level of poverty and powerlessness within the community.

The organization supports innovative and creative efforts which advance the realization of some fundamental values and goals:

What We Do

KAWODEP works with rural communities (children, adolescent girls and women) to reduce gender inequalities through economic empowerment, gender advocacy promoting reprodutive health and advancing human rights in Migori County through popular education model/capacity building and enabling environment for organized giving and social justice.

Our Vision

A community free from all forms of poverty, violence, abuse and discrimination.

Our Mission

To create a healthy environment, protecting and empowering the vulnerable communities to become effective agents of development and change to improve quality of their lives and that of future generations.

Our Structure

KAWODEP is managed and run by an elected/voluntary Board of Directors of committed and enthusiastic members with a balance of knowledge, talents, experience and gender, which help the organization to device, its work programmes.

The Board is elected every three years and is composed of 5 women and 4 men including organization representatives, PC and professionals.

Our Philosophy

KAWODEP philosophy of development is that our initiatives are driven by the belief than human development is the key to the other development intervention build, the starting point for empowerment, economic participation the anchor and integration of women’s rights this build on the other interventions to transform women’s perception about themselves as actors in the community.