Kiringai Kamau's Page

My organization

VACID Africa

Website

http://www.vacidafrica.or.ke

Address

PO Box 1618
00100 GPO
Nairobi-Kenya

What we do as an organization (100-word description)

We are a community empowerment organization that promotes the creation of institutional frameworks that integrate ICT4D in their operations.

We achieve this by integrating Value Chain perspectives to what communities do. Our interventions start from the grassroots at what farmers, in this case smallholder farmers produce, then aggregate the produce through automated processes, undertake value addition on the same and link this with the market - the consumers.

The activities that we support promote wealth creation at the various nodes along the agricultural value chains. We collaborate with Collective Action initiatives to boost their strategic business integration focus.

My function in the organization

Founder and Value Chain Analyst

What ICT or e-Skill training programs does your organization offer?

1. Support to electronic weighing of agricultural produce
2. Training of Trainers in e-agriculture and e-business
3. Training Trainers on Web content development and management

What other training services does your organization provides?

1. Value Addition Training to reduce post harvest losses and promote food security
2. Trainer of Trainer Programmes in Business development and entrepreneurship
3. Marketing and Value Chains Management

Other services and activities:

Promoting linkages between peers in the market place and vertically with service providers, consumers and suppliers

Number of telecentres linked to my organization

10 at the moment, and growing

Target groups

1. Small holder farmer collective action initiatives
2. Value Chain Service Provider Networks
3. Development partners

Partners: (other NGOs)

CIAT-TSBF, Telecentre.org, UNIDO, SWAN - Sudan, Computers for Schools Kenya

Partners: (private sector)

WillPower, Octagon Data Systems, Cardno Agrisystems

Partners: (government)

Ministry of Finance, Agriculture, Cooperaive Development in Kenya,

Other partners:

Kenya Agricultural Productivity Programme

How we contribute to the network

Best practices/Success stories, Training materials, e-learning resources, Resources for training instructors/teachers, Business and management training for NGOs

Other ways of contributing to the network (please describe):

Provision of Data Centre

How you got in touch with this social network site?

I received an online invitation from a member

My personal areas of interest or expertise

Value Chains Management
Collective Action
Agri-business Development
ICT4D