inclusive people's economy

Overview

This program focuses on engaging and supporting Kenya’s largest sources of income and livelihoods. We target working with informal traders, especially micro and small enterprises, as well as small-scale farmers and fisherfolk, for improved incomes and access to quality and sustainable food at the household level.

Within the informal trade sector, TISA seeks to organize informal traders and especially women and youth to harness their critical mass to push for better working conditions and more standardized, accessible models of compliance to government requirements of trading.

We will work with county and national levels of government to enhance their understanding of model inclusive tax and trade systems that will benefit the largest source of employment and livelihoods. TISA will deploy movement building, strategic partnerships, research and analysis and audits of the lived experiences coupled with policy and legislative analysis to strengthen the informal trade system.

In relation to Right to Food TISA envisions an empowered citizenry capable of demanding their rights regarding food programs and services. TISA plans to work intensively in Vihiga and Kiambu counties in the next 3 years and at the national level to cocreate models and policies necessary for the realization of the right to food and other rights that are linked to it. Additionally, the program will apply an intersectional lense to interrogate the diversity in the right to food value and production system. Duty-bearers will be engaged to understand and implement inclusive legal, institutional, and policy frameworks for the right to food. The community score card process will identify service gaps, which will be addressed proactively. TISA aims to build a strong advocacy movement, ensuring citizen participation in policy shaping. We will also work at the national level influencing actors on different aspects of the right to food including safe food in the right quantities. social accountability to strengthen this relationship through the promotion of civic engagement.

Social Accountability mechanisms create effective mechanisms of accountability, while strengthening the existing horizontal accountability mechanisms which contribute to improved public service delivery, better governance, and greater development effectiveness.

The envisioned outcome of this program is: Improved social economic inclusion of farmers and informal traders by spurring the interest of farmers and informal traders to demand accountability and transparency in revenue management by 50% increase in social and economic inclusion by 2028.

Strategic Objectives:

To organize 1,000,000 informal traders in at least 7 counties (Vihiga ,Nairobi , Kiambu ,Elgeyo Marakwet, Kisumu, Kilifi, Kirinyaga, Bomet, Makueni) engaged in food, clothes, artistic products and transport services to demand and secure their rights.
To advocate for inclusive legal, institutional and policy frameworks that promote the realization of the right to food in Kenya through strengthening the capacity of relevant duty-bearers and citizens by 2027.
To improve participation and inclusion of women and youth in the agricultural and informal trade sectors through organizing and policy advocacy.

We call for citizen participation and engagement in prudent and accountable public debt management through:

Petitions for government accountability on public debt management
Public participation in budget processes
Participation in electoral processes
Mobilization and sensitization of fellow citizens on status of public debt and its effects on their livelihoods
Participation in public discourse on public debt management