OUR STORY

Support for Tropical Initiatives in Poverty Alleviation (STIPA) aims at community empowerment for eradicating poverty, overcoming injustices and promoting social transformation among vulnerable rural and urban communities in Western Kenya. The interventions cultivate social change through adoption of unique approaches and principles thereby modelling sustainable alternatives that strengthen the capacity of vulnerable community members to shift their priorities and expand their influence in leading change.

Partnership is a core principle of human rights based approach that we use to build power within, power to and power with local organizations and grassroot leadership critical to scaling our work and impact for sustainability. Our advocacy is deeply rooted in our theory of change to inform and tap opportunities for investing towards collective transformational change with gender mainstreaming crosscutting.

The History