Latest News & Updates

February 10, 2026

GLS Foundation Visit to RODI Kenya

Date: 06/02/2026 On 6th February 2026, Mr. Dirk Kannacher, a member of the GLS Foundation, visited RODI Kenya to learn more about the organisation&rs...

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February 02, 2026

Tudor Trust Concludes 26-Year Funding Partnership with RODI Kenya

The Tudor Trust was the first organisation to fund Resources Oriented Development Initiatives (RODI) Kenya, playing a foundational role in the growth ...

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January 22, 2026

Agroecology in Coffee Farming: Advancing Sustainable Livelihoods in Kenya

Coffee farming is a vital source of income for thousands of smallholder farmers in Kenya. Yet the sector faces growing challenges, including climate c...

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January 21, 2026

International Students from the University of Padova Visit RODI Kenya

  RODI Kenya recently hosted a group of international students from the University of Padova (Italy) who are enrolled in the Joint International...

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January 19, 2026

Validation Meeting for RODI Kenya 2026–2030 Strategic Plan

RODI Kenya conducted a validation meeting as part of the development of its 2026–2030 Strategic Plan. The meeting brought together key stakehold...

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January 09, 2026

Reaching the unreached through TB screening.

Kenya Innovation Challenge Tuberculosis (KIC-TB) project is aimed at finding missing people with TB around the country . RODI Kenya is implementing th...

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January 09, 2026

Community Livelihood Support Project

Community Livelihood Support Implemented with support from Tudor Trust UK, GLS foundation for Future development and Bread for the World. The pr...

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January 09, 2026

Empowering leaders for effective resource mobilization

Local resource mobilization is an ongoing initiative by RODI Kenya. This project aims at creating self-sustainability for communities. This is done th...

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January 09, 2026

Addressing isolation and lack of adequate aftercare for women ex prisoners.

  Lack of adequate after care for women ex prisoners sometimes leads them to reoffending and isolation of them in the society. Recognizing this ...

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January 09, 2026

Kenya Innovation Challenge- (KIC) TB Project

KIC-TB  The Kenya Innovation Challenge Tuberculosis (KIC-TB) project was implemented by Resources Oriented Development Initiatives in Nairobi an...

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January 09, 2026

Table Banking-Group Saving and Loaning Project

Table Banking-Group Saving and Loaning Implemented since 2004 with support from community resource Mobilisation and the GLS Foundation for Future D...

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January 09, 2026

Project for enhancing Livelihood in Coffee Growing Areas( PELCA)

Project for enhancing Livelihood in Coffee Growing Areas( PELCA) Implemented since 2021 with support from Tudor Trust through a consortium of 4 org...

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January 09, 2026

Project for Enhancing Local Resource Mobilisation and Community Philanthropy

Project for Enhancing Local Resource Mobilisation and Community Philanthropy Implemented with initial technical and financial support from Open soc...

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January 09, 2026

Project for Mass tree production

Project for Mass tree production Implemented since 2021 with support from ECOSIA, a search engine that plants trees through GLS Foundation for Futu...

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January 09, 2026

Project for Organic farming, food security, diversification of income for coffee farmers and job creation for youths

Project for Organic farming, food security, diversification of income for coffee farmers and job creation for youths Implemented since 2024 with su...

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January 09, 2026

Integrated Water shed Management and diversification of Farm enterprises (IWAMA DIFE)

Integrated Water shed Management and diversification of Farm enterprises (IWAMA DIFE) Implemented since 2014 with support from PELUM Kenya in Nyeri...

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January 09, 2026

School Based Crime Prevention and Life Skills project

School Based Crime Prevention and Life Skills Implemented since 2005 with support from Tudor Trust UK and Bread for the World. The primary purpo...

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January 09, 2026

Nurturing nature through organic field days

Field days organized by RODI Kenya are designed to bring valuable knowledge directly to farmers in their local area. This approach ensures that partic...

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January 09, 2026

Collaborative paths to prison reform

RODI has conducted regional meetings in various regions , Central , Kakamega, Lodwar and Nairobi. In a series of pivotal regional meetings, RODI has...

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January 09, 2026

From inmate to community champion

The Restorative Prisoner Rehabilitation and Re-Integration project aims at supporting offender rehabilitation and Reintegration with a primary focus...

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January 09, 2026

Restoring Dignity Through Action

    At RODI Kenya, we believe that every child, regardless of ability, deserves to live with dignity, confidence, and hope. That&rsq...

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January 09, 2026

FOOD SECURITY AND AGROECOLOGY .

In this thematic area  we aim to encourage production and consumption of healthy and toxin free food and enable people gain access to food. ...

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January 09, 2026

SOCIAL AND LEGAL JUSTICE

SOCIAL AND LEGAL JUSTICE   Our main goal is to create and crime free and just environment   This thematic area has the followi...

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January 09, 2026

HEALTH AND WASH

Health AND WASH   In this thematic area we aim to create a healthy disease-free society   1. KICTB  - The Kenya Innovatio...

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January 09, 2026

INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND STRENGTHENING

INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND STRENGTHENING   This thematic areas aims to strengthen institutions and communities by empowering them with...

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January 09, 2026

From Waste to Wealth: How RODI Kenya is Transforming Coffee Farming in Nyeri

  In Kenya’s rich coffee belt, something remarkable is brewing and it's not just the coffee. RODI Ken...

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January 09, 2026

How Urban Gardens Are Transforming Lives of Women Living with HIV in Kenya

In Kenya’s urban centers, where space is limited and the challenges of poverty and health intersect, a quiet yet powerful transformation is ta...

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January 09, 2026

From Nyeri Hill to New Hope: How Youth-Led Tree Restoration Is Changing Lives

Environmental restoration is often discussed in policies, conferences, and global commitments. But on the slopes of Nyeri Hill, restoration is happe...

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January 09, 2026

Beyond Tree Planting: The Nyeri Hill Youth Model for Sustainable Livelihoods

    At Nyeri Hill Forest, restoration is no longer just about planting trees it is about restoring dignity, knowledge, and economic ...

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January 09, 2026

Mass tree planting for environmental sustainability and economic empowerment

Over the last 3 years, RODI has been actively involved in mass tree  and growing in 5 counties: Kiambu, Nyandarua, Machakos, Nyeri and Laikipia in ...

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January 09, 2026

Farmers Adopt Arrowroot Farming Upland

Farmers Adopt Arrowroot Farming Upland   Muchiri, a member of 3K group, explains how he set up his arrowroot farm in a raised section o...

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January 09, 2026

WHY I HOME ROAST MY OWN ORGANICALLY GROWN COFFEE

WHY I HOME ROAST MY OWN ORGANICALLY GROWN COFFEE   One of the coffee stems at Muchiri's coffee farm in Gituamba, Gatundu North Sub Coun...

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January 09, 2026

Women's Right to Own and Inherit Land

Women's Right to Own and Inherit Land A small scale farmer from Menya Ciaku, a Self Help Group supported by RODI, applies organic liquid foliar fe...

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January 09, 2026

Taking Farmers Back to Their Roots

Taking Farmers Back to Their Roots https://biasharaleo.co.ke/taking-farmers-back-to-their-roots/ RODI Kenya develops sustainable farming programmes t...

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January 09, 2026

Organic Farmers Market at World Food Day 2021 Celebrations.

To commemorate World Food Day 2021, RODI hosted an Organic Farmers Market at RODI's Training and Conference Centre in Ruiru. The main purpose of...

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January 09, 2026

For Kenyan farmers, organic fertilizer bokashi brings the land back to life

For Kenyan farmers, organic fertilizer bokashi brings the land back to life https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/bokashi-fast-decomposing-bio-fertil...

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January 09, 2026

Enhanced livelihood in coffee growing areas

The initiative is currently being implement in Kiambu and Muranga County with technical and Financial support from Tudor Trust through a consortium of...

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January 09, 2026

Group saving and loaning

The Groups Savings and Loaning Association initiative is a continuation of the table banking project RODI is implementing in 3 counties: Muranga, Nyan...

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January 09, 2026

Expanding TB screening in congregate settings

The initiative is being implemented by Resources Oriented Development Initiatives In Nairobi and Kiambu Counties under the Kenya innovation challenge ...

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January 09, 2026

Legal aid delivery and criminal justice reforms

Since 2011, RODI has been in the front-line line in legal aid delivery and promotion of human rights for indigent and vulnerable persons within the Ke...

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January 09, 2026

Offender reintegration and Aftercare

Since 1994, RODI has been supporting ex-offenders in their community reintegration and Aftercare with support from Tudor Trust GLS Future Foundation f...

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January 09, 2026

Enhancing local resource mobilisation and community philanthropy

The initiative is being implemented by Resources Oriented Development Initiatives (RODI) Kenya, through technical and financial support from Global Fu...

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January 09, 2026

Organisational development assessment

In 2022, RODI conduted an organisational development to establish the milestones in organisational growth as well as identify areas of organizational ...

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January 09, 2026

Impoverished tea pluckers seek solace in sanitiser-making projects

Impoverished tea pluckers seek solace in sanitiser-making projects   Despite the fact that tea rakes in billions of shillings in sales, t...

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January 09, 2026

Restorative Prisoner Rehabilitation

Since 1994, RODI has partnered with the Kenya Prisons Service in rehabilitation of prisoners in 35 prisons in Kenya. We use a Restorative Prisoner Reh...

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January 09, 2026

Participatory Assessment on Disaster and Climate Risk Analysis (PADCR) Report

  Climate change continues to be a global phenomena with devastating effects to community livelihood. The current weather changes have advers...

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January 09, 2026

THE POWER OF EMPOWERING WOMEN

  Table Banking is a group based funding system where members of a group meet weekly and make weekly savings which they can borrow a...

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January 09, 2026

A New Beginning.

    Bernard Wafula, an ex-prisoner of Eldoret main prison has garnered the name ’masabuni’ is a story of resilie...

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January 09, 2026

Rooted Growth: Cultivating Change through tree planting in Kenya.

    For over 3 years now RODI has planted thousands of trees in Kenya through the support of the green searing engine ECOSIA and i...

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January 09, 2026

The rise of organic farming

Organic agriculture considers the medium- and long-term effect of agricultural interventions on the Agro-ecosystem. It aims to produce food wh...

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January 09, 2026

A greener society

On 24th May , RODI Kenya took the initiative to distribute trees to various schools and community groups around Kiambu county. This initiative was...

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January 09, 2026

Hygiene, Water, sanitation and Natural resources management –(WASH-NRM –Project)

Hygiene, Water, sanitation and Natural resources management Implemented in 2009 to 2013 with support from Australian Agency for International Devel...

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January 09, 2026

Rights Based HIV Prevention and Mitigation for Kenyan Prisons

Rights Based HIV Prevention and Mitigation for Kenyan Prisons Implemented in 2010 to 2014, with support from DFID. The purpose of the project wa...

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January 09, 2026

Community and Schools Crime Prevention project

Community and Schools Crime Prevention Implemented in 2011 to 2016 with support from OSF. The project aimed at supporting community and school s...

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January 09, 2026

Pretrials detainees Justice and life skills project

Pretrials detainees Justice and life skills Implemented in 2011 to 2018 with support from Open Society Foundation (OSF). The project purpose wa...

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January 09, 2026

Project for Improving safety and livelihood of workers hired by small holders in Kenya

Project for Improving safety and livelihood of workers hired by small holders in Kenya Implemented in 2019 to 2021 with support from Ethical Tea Pa...

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January 09, 2026

Restorative Prisoner Rehabilitation and Re-Integration Project

Restorative Prisoner Rehabilitation and Re-Integration Implemented since 1994 with support from Tudor Trust UK, GLS foundation for Future developme...

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