Programmes
•  Integrated Rural Development Programme

•  Water and Sanitation Project

•  Democracy and Governance

•  Economic Livelihoods

•  Reproductive Health/HIV/AIDS

Activities

Economic Literacy and Marketing strategies
This seeks to improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers in North Rift through access markets for their produce in the principles of fair economic development through:-

•  Enhancing the capacity of smallholder farmer-groups to seek, identify and influence high potential markets.
•  Linking identified farmer-groups in to sustainable local or regional markets in principles of fair economic development.
•  Enabling smallholder farmers access financial services from local financial institutions.
•  Enhancing project sustainability through reflection, learning and sharing of experiences by all stakeholders.

Gender equity and minority rights issues
This is marked by equality where women and men enjoy the same status and have equal conditions for realizing their full human rights and potential to contribute to national, political, economical, social and cultural development and to benefit from the results.

This is a process of being fair to women and men. To ensure fairness, measurers must be available to compensate historical and social disadvantages that prevent women and men from operating on a level playing field.

Gender Mainstreaming and HIV/AIDS
Since HIV/AIDS has been recognized by CCS as a cross cultural issue, it has therefore been mainstreamed in IRDP activities at all levels.

Participatory methodologies we use in IRDP have been designed to build self esteem and a sense of responsibility for one's decision. They have therefore proven useful in involving women in development issues. And since HIV/AIDS has been mainstreamed into core programmes, this has ensured equal participation by gender in all development programmes.

STI/HIV/AIDS prevention and care
While the core business of CCS is mainly to address improvement of standard of living for target communities, CCS has recognized that the HIV pandemic worsens poverty levels. CCS has therefore through the community based reproductive health programme and IRDP have been involved in HIV/AIDS/STIs prevention activities for the last ten years. This has been done mainly in areas of prevention through awareness creation, sensitization on importance of VCT, antenatal care to take care of PMTCT and collaboration with PLWHA support groups to act as catalysts in community sensitization and also provide home based care for the sick.

Considerable achievements have therefore been made in terms of numbers reached and improvement of quality of life for PLWHA.

Volunteer Community Health Workers who have been empowered and based in the community have not only been active in sensitization but have played a key role in home based care and referral linkages.

Food Security and Natural Resource Management
The process embraces the Biblical mandate of communities on care of environment. This includes:-

•  Audit of Natural Resources through community resource mapping and transect walk
•  Land degradation and desertification control measurers
•  Relationship between environment and farming
•  Tree planting
•  Tree Nursery establishment
•  Soil conservation and management
•  Ecosystem management
•  Sanitation

Conflict Resolution and Peace Building