21st of March 2024, was a special day for us as GKCD/ DGRV Kenya; the ‘Opening Event” of our new project phase 2024-2026. It was a motivating exchange platform for our project partners and us, to channel development conversations with the Presidential Economic Transformation Secretariat, the State Department for Co-operatives, the County Governments of Nyeri,…
GESTE Foundation and DGRV are both organizations promoting international development cooperation. GESTE financially supported our partner organization Kipkelion Youth Service Cooperative Society (KYSC) at the beginning of this year 2023, with the aim of supporting the economic activities of the co-operative. The funds financed the establishment of a CoffeeTuk Business and will go a long…
Our partner, Kipkelion Youth Service Cooperative (KYSC), is a youth cooperative society that is finding innovative ways of doing business in the local hospitality Industry. Its main objective is to promote its members through economic participation. The background of these youth is in the Coffee growing areas and they are planning to implement businesses which…
We had a successful monthly supervision and pilot testing of supervision tools for of 5 non-deposit taking SACCOs in Narok North Sub-County, Narok County namely Yamua SACCO, Health Partners SACCO, Narok Fleet Transporters SACCO, Nafugo SACCO and Golden Chance SACCO. The cooperative officers and SACCOs visited in Narok North Sub-county appreciated the quality of the tools…
The Ministry of Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Development in Kenya and German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development are implementing a project in Kenya namely: Promoting Co-operative Structures in East Africa as a Contribution to Strengthening Rural Regions. In Kenya, the specific project interventions are implemented by German Kenyan Cooperative…
An Annual General Meeting (AGM) is a mandatory yearly gathering of an organization’s interested shareholders. As required by law, Annual General Meeting is a mandatory yearly gathering of any Cooperative’s shareholders. It is the governing meeting of the Cooperative which brings members and directors together to share reports of the previous year, financial statements, make…
Our partner Kipkelion Youth Service Cooperative (KYSC), is a youth cooperative society that is finding innovative ways of doing business in the local Coffee Industry. Its’ main objective is to promote its members through economic participation. The background of these youth, is in the Coffee industry, and they are planning to implement businesses which are…
Kipkelion District Co-operative Union Youth Council (KYC) sprouted when a group of well-established local youth representatives within Fort Ternan, Kipkelion in Kericho County, came together to register a community based organization on the 6th September, 2018. With an aim of promoting the interests of the members, and supporting the welfare and overall economic development of…
DGRV Kenya / GKCD is pleased to be trusted with the implementation of another BMZ funded project phase in Kenya for the duration 2021 – 2023. We thank our project partners who worked with us from 2017 – 2020 and will continue working with us in the new project. Together we shall continue to…
Globally, and Kenya in particular, learning has been negatively impacted by COVID-19 .In response to the rise of corona virus cases in Kenya ,the government of Kenya temporarily closed all schools in an attempt to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Right now, the COVID-19 pandemic is hugely on the rise and expected to…