Bamboo Resource Centre is a Kenyan Social Enterprise that works in Africa to help mitigate climate change, protect local bio-diversity, conserve local environment, enable sustainable livelihoods and foster environmental enterprenuership. It adopts bamboo plant and its eco-system (bamboo plant physiology and ecology). It does this by promoting farming systems, product development and marketing (PD&M) alongside stakeholder capacity building.

It was established in September 2021, by Sifa Bible Institute Division of Grace Hour Enterprises to spearhead its Agri-business Development work. The initial focus was on the Lake Victoria Basin in Kenya. However, due to stakeholder feedback, the centre now works throughout Africa- so that students of the institute can actively participate in the same. It uses a Business-to-business mentorship approach to help develop a chain of community based action groups throughout Africa - one Village-at-a-time. The groups implement our 10-thematic projects and our Janeno Project.

Our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ motivates us to help bring about lasting change in the lives of people who we serve. We neither plant our churches nor proseltyze our contacts. However, we are alive to the missions mobilization work of Sifa Bible Institute. In this respect, we: a. Vision together with other like-minded actors globally to educate and train God's people for the world and His approach to managing this plan by actively involving every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ through evangelism, discipleship, social ministry, stewardship, leadership, fellowship and organization development as acts of Christian worship. b. Enable everyone to find their own dignity as Sons of God by helping them to tackle their own poverty in a sustainable manner.

About Us

We have organized our work into 10-thematic projects. These are classified under three intervention areas within the bamboo value chain. The interventions and projects are:

A. Farming Systems Projects through our Miche Yetu Project (Tree Nurseries), Bamboo Agro-forestry Project , Bamboo Woodlots Project, and Bamboo Riverine Systems Project.

B. Product Development and Marketing Projects that add value to bamboo plant or other environmental resources within a bamboo plant eco-system. This includes our Bamboo Handicrafts Project, Bamboo Lake-Views Project, Bamboo Bio-fuels Project, Bamboo Housing Project and Bamboo Landscaping Project.

C. Capacity Building Projects through our Bamboo Research and Training Project and Janeno Project. All of our partnerships are developed and run under this intervention.

OUR STRATEGY

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Our Strategy

GOAL: To foster a practical, biblical and culturally-relevant agricultural and environmental theology in Africa through a simple approach that directly impacts positively on participating farm-based households using a Climate Adapted Family Living Systems (CAFLS) model.

VISION: A Centre of Excellence in Africa in practical agricultural and environmental theology.

MISSION: A catalyst of environmental stewardship in Africa through research, knowledge and technology transfer, enterprise development mentorship, impact and equity financing, thought-leader incubation and organization development coaching using bamboo plant and its eco-system.

OBJECTIVES:

Bamboo Resource Centre promotes Agribusiness Development in Africa through bamboo plant and its eco-system by:

a. Capacity building and professional development of researchers, lecturers, universiity students, institutional leaders and professionals- on bamboo plantt, its eco-system and role in learner and community capacity building. This objective informs our partnership with universities and research institutes.

b. Enabling social innovations that use bamboo plant and its eco-system to tackle local poverty in a sustainable manner in collaboration with global thought leaders, policy implementers, angel investors and other resource groups. Our work in the villages is based on this.

c. To foster global linkages that transfer knowledge and technology to farm-based households as a means of strengthening viable and sustainable Family Farming Systems (FFS). Our Hubs- Wapashe and Ubunifu are based on this.

d. To foster trade and investment opportunities and platforms among African farmers, professionals and enterprenuers on bamboo plant and its eco-system. Our work in the co-operatives development is based on this.

e. To discourse with the African clergy, theologians and government officials on the role of a biblical theology of agriculture and environment in Africa's transformational agenda. This is our cross-cutting engagement.

Together, we can do more.

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OUR INTENDED OUTCOME

Bamboo Resource Centre envisages a resilient eco-system that is capable of supporting local sustainable livelihoods and bio-diversity for the benefit of future generations.

OUR FUNCTION

Bamboo Resource Centre exists as a Social Enterprise to support local actions in Africa that protect, conserve, document, responsibly use and sustain eco-cultural resources in and around them while advocating for the commercial adoption of bamboo plant and its eco-system as a commercial value-chain suitable for Africa's transformational agenda.

OUR PROGRAMS

Bamboo Resource Centre does its work through five programs based on its objectives namely:

A. The Catalyst Program

B. Keystone Program

C.

Pamoja Program

D. Connect Program

E. Janeno Project

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Bamboo Resource Centre is a model of Climate Adapted Family Living Systems. Located in a one-quarter acre land, its seasonal calendar demonstrates how families in Africa can mainstream bamboo in sustainable agricultural systems that mitigate climate change, conserve local environment, protect local bio-diversity. conserve local environment, support sustainable livelihoods and foster environmental enterprenuership using locally occuring environmental resources.