Kenya Community Development Foundation

KCDF is a Kenyan development grant-making organization, founded and registered in 1997 as a public foundation, that supports communities to initiate and drive their development agenda by harnessing and growing their resources as well as securing their basic rights and services from duty bearers.

KCDF works with poor, marginalised and disadvantaged communities as its primary target group and looks to provide them support in uplifting themselves from their situation through their own efforts. A secondary target group involves organised communities who are focused in looking to uplift themselves in a sustainable manner through asset building.

KCDF thus invests significant resources to build, strengthen and sustain the core capacities of these communities by developing thoughtful, long-term collaborations with other actors such as governments, non–profit organisations, the business sectors and individuals to achieve social justice.

Our Vision

All communities giving and working together in prosperity.

Our Mission

Promoting sustainable development of communities for social justice, through institution building, partnerships, resource mobilisation and policy influencing.

Our Values

KCDF believes and upholds the fundamental freedoms and rights as contained in the International Charter on Human Rights and The Constitution of Kenya. These rights and values include

• Social Justice & Equity: everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities.
• Respect: the rights & dignity of every human being irrespective of their social standing
• Integrity: transparency, accountability and efficiency in our dealings with others.
• Partnerships: working with other partners and collaborators in a dedicated manner to the achievement of common targets and goals.
• Innovation: reflection, learning and innovation and striving to evolve, promote and share best practices with others