Community Road Empowerment (CORE)
Road Maintenance using Do-nou Technology
CORE Kenya with funding from the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) through the World Bank is implementing the project titled “Improved Livelihood Opportunities and Accessibility for Under-served Urban Communities in Meru, Kenya.”
Roads Rehabilitated
(Do-nou + Graveling)
Year 1: 10.83km
Year 2: 8.55km
Year 3: 7.6km
SMEs Registered and Trained
Year 1: 20 SME's
Year 2: 15 SME's
Year 3: 15 SME's
We Empower and Build Capacity
About Project
- Capacity building in road maintenance through the application of do-nou technology.
- Enhancement of livelihood opportunities in target communities in the County of Meru by empowering them to become SMEs.
- Project Management, monitoring and evaluation and knowledge dissemination.
Our Vision
Envisioning a world free of poverty and hunger for better livelihood.
Our Mission
Empower men, women and people with disability to be self reliant, to self develop and to self market.
Proposed Development Objectives
Create employment opportunities and skills in labor-based road maintenance, and
Improve the basic accessibility to the target population of the selected under-served urban communities of Meru town.
Latest News
Partners
CORE – JSDF Meru Project today completed a two-day Mock Trial for 75 SME directors, trained in the third year of the project, "mproved Livelihood Opportunities and Accessibility for Underserved Urban Communities in Meru, Kenya" . The focus of the activity was to train the leaders on procurement and tendering processes at various institutions including The County Government of Meru and Kenya Urban Roads Authority. The training provides an opportunity for the SMEs to familiarize themselves with various laws and regulations governing procurement, the tendering process as well as the filling of tender documents.
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CORE_JSDF MERU Project today held a training session for group directors, on National Construction Authority (NCA) registration requirements, processes and regulations. This equips them with necessary information and skills to register as small scale contractors under NCA category 8. The directors were drawn from the 15 groups involved in the third year of roads rehabilitation project.
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Day 3 of CORE training to Meru County Government Staff. Today the training was facilitated by officers from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). Some of the topics they were taken through include concepts of corruption, corruption process, categories of corruption, arenas of corruption, causes of corruption, effects of corruption, benefits of fighting corruption, role of individuals in the promotion of ethics and Anti-corruption, among others. … See MoreSee Less