The CSDI currently has works scheduled for the districts of Tana River, Garissa and Baringo.
We work with other non-governmental organisations as well as with local communities in the districts. We work towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 in arid and semiarid lands of Kenya. To do this Herculean task, CSDI seeks to build on and scle up the impacts of the Millennium Villages in Kenya.
CSDI values the contribution of government agencies and other development partners in the fight against desertification, land degradation and environmental poverty. We particularly work closely with the Arid Lands Resource Management Project II (ALRMP), which has for more than a decade been involved in drought relief and development work in 28 arid and semiarid districts in Kenya, and whose successes working in challenging environments we seek to build on.
CSDI places emphasis on the application of sound scienctific knowledge and best-bet experiental practices as the core philosophy guiding its interventions. We make every effort to ensure that any programmatic activity we undertake offers the opportunity for the marginalised communities in the drylands of Kenya to break away from the vicious cycle of poverty by first freeing themselves from the poverty of ideas and information.