Nachukui – November 29, 2025 (Public Communications and Media Relations)
The Six Ward Community Driven Development Committee have inked Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with County’s Food Systems Resilience Project (FSRP), fueling local growth at the grassroot level.
The Lakezone, Kibish, Kaikor/Kaaleng, Kalobeyei, Lopur and Lodwar Township are the six wards that have already shown interest and willingness to start implementing projects that have been identified by the Development Committee through Participatory Integrated Community Development (PICD) model.
The model is a community engagement process where the community members participate in identifying problems while developing plans with plans for action.
The Development Committee included those elected as Executive, Finance, Procurement, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Complaints Committees.The Ward Administrators witnessed the signing of the MoU.
Peter Pulukol, a resident of Lomekwi village, who was elected the chairperson of the Lakezone CDDC, expressed his confidence that the people driven development model makes the community reign, own and sustain the projects even after the FSRP phases out in five years time.
“This development, marks a significant moment from previous undertakings where projects were identified by elites and taken to the community. This, reaffirms the authority in communities to proactively be involved in managing their own development projects,” said Pulukol.
He argues that the new approach to development will strengthen the governance structure in the implementation of the projects.
The 11-member committee emphasized the need for trainings in all aspects of the project period to increase the awareness of communities in the project cycle.
The Project targets all the 30 wards; through this, the first fiscal year of implementation will see CDDC become eligible for allocation of FSRP resources upon meeting the MoU’s conditions
The FSRP’s Community Institutions Development Officer, Josephine Emase says, “the Project aims at building community ownership, create strong local structures map existing community groups, and lay the groundwork for participatory community-driven development.”
All these, she added, links directly to the FSRP’s bigger goal of boosting resilience of local food systems, strengthening institutional capacity, enhancing community participation, and ensuring sustainability of food-security initiatives.
