OVE/Kenya - Vedvarende Energi - Sustainable environment in Kenya Through assistance and advocacy efforts SECODE II will assist four poor communities in Kisumu 
with a total number of 121.000 people to obtain an improved environmental situation.

The project will seek to empower the urban poor for them to develop their own representative 
organisations to be able to take advantage of the democratic system and to claim their rights. Not only 
for the sake of obtaining tangible improvements of slum areas through a changed municipal pro-poor 
policy, but also for offering themselves to government agencies as partners.

The SECODE II project will seek to support community-based planning methods to enable 
communities to prioritise their development goals and mobilize for implementation. Based on these 
priorities a small grant facility including a saving mechanism will be established to support the local 
community in demonstrating community driven projects. These projects will illustrate a variety of 
concrete approaches to sustainable solutions for urban communities.

During the SECODE II project, several community projects will be launched. These projects will 
demonstrate a variety of concrete approaches to sustainable environment solutions for poor slum 
communities in Kisumu and inspire to similar projects in other urban areas of Kenya