Crades is a full consultancy group exclusively devoted to offering facilitation services in support of community development. It exists to empower communities, organizations, private companies and individuals to realize their full potential. Crades was first established in 2003 as a supportive program of the foundation for restoration of family values [FRFV].In 2012 it was fully registered as a consultancy group to offer a facilitation service / link to marginalized community members under remote conditions by strategically positioning and equipping them to attract development empowerment that improve their living standards.
Its services extend across project formulation; evaluation, fininancial services among other services. Crades has been working in collaboration with Associates for Community Development Support Resolutions [ASFOCODESURE] a community support investor to bridge the poverty gap that hinder development empowerment services among the marginalized community groups. The Asfocodesure group offers a development facilitation support to help the poor get helped to receive development empowerment. Since Crades establishment it has been able to facilitate over 3000 projects in partnership with other community based organizations such as Foundation for restoration of family values-[FRFV]; Asante Kenya[AK]; fountain of hope group[FOHG];Scream Africa[SA];Agrisystems Foundation[AF];Solutions consult link ltd;Frontline missions Intl;Mercy and truth Medical Missions-Kansas city ;USA; Around the globe deliverance ministries; among others.Through a series of acquisitions and new builds, Crades is poised to emerge as a hub for Services that promote development Solutions for communities, organizations, private companies and individuals to realize their full potential. Currently, Crades has managed to facilitate and mobilize over 300,000 needy community groups for funding support of their projects.
Community resources and development entrepreneur Services [CRADES] is a consultancy firm registered with office of the attorney general in Kenya as a business entity, with the aim of providing development facilitation services in order to assist needy community members to achieve desired development goals.
Crades
Exists to;
- Offer a facilitation link to individuals, community groups, organizations or private companies in need of connectivity to a source of empowerment that comes with a solution to overcome any existing limitation for a desired achievement.
- Assist to put in place development systems on individual or private companies, organization and community based projects.
- Help embrace proper management on resource utilization for wealth creation.
- Initiate, support and maximize the utilization of available resources as a solution to development needs.
- Facilitate community development by use of naturallyavailable resources as a solution to development goals.
- Identify investment opportunities for possible development partners with individuals, organizations and the local community.
- Initiate programs that innovatively enterprise solutions for the needy individuals, organizations/ institutions and the community at large.
- Offer legal services for partnerships in development and entrepreneur projects.
- Offer facilitation services to needy individuals, communities or private company’s based projects by undertaking the projects appraisals to measure to the expected standards.
- Assist to create and support community development groups.
- Help mobilize resources and initiate partnership networks for development purposes.
- Research and identify the specific needs of marginalized community groups.
- Prepare funding proposals on behalf of needy community groups, individuals or organizations and forwarding them to financiers with an interest to invest in their support.
In a nutshell CRADES works to coordinate on the provision of necessary services that help to reduce the spread of human suffering for the less fortunate and to help achieve development goals with ease.
Partners/Community supporters
Crades consultancy works in partnership with Associates for community development support resolutions (ASFOCODESURE) community support investors to facilitate community projects by meeting project clearance expenses on behalf of poor communities as they help position them for donor funding.The (ASFOCODESURE)is a consortium of development support investors who support poor communities to get their projects facilitated for funding with the aim of owning the implimentation contracts.Some of the comunity support investors include: ASCODES, Crades Foundation, Makumbini Development Association, ATG Deliverance Ministries, Crades Resident Association, Agrisystem Foundation, Fire Gospel ministries, Vision Mua Community support Group, Lower Kaewa-Kani CBO, Fountain of Hope CBO, Makolape Community Group among others. Crades community support facilitators are engaged in different levels of local coordination in community project clearance demands as per their voluntary contribution and suitability in undertaking any of the project demands.
With this kind of partnership ,crades consultancy has been able to help communities under abject poverty to get support for development from donor agencies. Currently,crades is undertaking facilitation for 300,000 community projects to be forwarded to Swindon smith Group for funding.
Crades collaboration with Swindon Smith Group is to help get funding for community based projects which are geared to eradicate poverty among the marginalized community groups.
The crades community group’s main areas of funding request include;
- Borehole drilling for community water supply.
- Youth economic empowerment.
- Funding for girls and mothers at risk.
- Agricultural equipments for food security.
- Educational support for orphaned and vulnerable or children with poor economic background.
- Relief support and care for the elderly
- Poverty eradication empowerment projects;fishing pods; greenhouses; poultry; diary; shops; information centres;etc
- Support of the disabled children
- Erecting sand dams
- distribution of water harvesting tanks
- Fgm rescue and support initiatives
- Medical support funding
- Post–harvest and loss reduction on mango fruit in high production areas
- Rescue and support initiative against HIV/AIDS
Among others.
