Project & Activities

CIM’S OMO MODEL PROGRAM

CIM has implemented a successful Community Transformation Program dubbed the Operation Mwolyo Out (OMO)

program in Yatta, Machakos County which has enabled the Community overcome water & food insecurity and

dependency syndrome. Since its official launch in 2009, the OMO program has become a model community

transformation model based on the climate change resilience and adaptation practices, food security and social and

economic empowerment due to the tremendous successes, having mobilized more than 5,000 households towards

Water security, Food security and Financial security. CIM’s Training Centre in Yatta engages in training people from all

walks of life to change their mindset and take the reins of their destinies.

The engagement with CIM’s Model in Yatta is structured to help facilitate the interrogation of socio-cultural issues that

undermine resilience among the communities using CIM’s Mindset change approach. The Model also offers alternatives

with special emphasis on Adaptable and Climate Smart Agricultural technologies in the context of dry land farming for

resilience.

From the training Center, the CIM/OMO model success story has spread like a bush fire becoming a Model Community

Transformation program for communities, churches, NGOs, and County Governments to learn from. CIM now has active

presence in Yatta, Machakos County where the CIM Center Headquarters is hosted, in East Pokot in Baringo County, in

West Pokot County, in Makueni County in partnership with the Makueni County Government, and in Tanzania in

partnership with World Vision Tanzania, among other areas where it works in partnership with different Stakeholders in

the Agriculture and development sector with a focus on training and mentorship for increased adoption. The success in

Yatta also saw the adoption of the Model nationally through the National Government’s Household Water Harvesting

Programme being implemented by the National Irrigation Authority (NIA) as part of the President’s Big Four agenda on

Food Security.

CIM’s Model training Center in Yatta has hosted and trained more than 15,000 participants between January 2014 and

December 2021 with notable groups and institutions as beneficiaries including but not limited to:-

i. NGOs and INGOs in the development world eg Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), Diakonia Sweden, Church World Service

(CWS), World Vision Tanzania, World Vision Kenya, World Vision Rwanda, World Vision Malawi, Compassion

International, World Concern, Tearfund, Caritas, NCCK, FAO, IGAD, ICRAF, the EU, UNDP, etc

ii. County Governments eg Makueni, Muranga, Laikipia, Samburu, Meru, Nyandarua, West Pokot, Baringo, Bomet, etc

iii. Universities eg University of Nairobi, Egerton University, Daystar University, JKUAT, Kenyatta University,

International Leadership University (ILU), African International University (AIU), USIU, etc

iv. National Government Ministries, departments, and parastatals including KENGEN, KIRDI, National Irrigation

Authority, Ministry of Water, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, NEMA, National

Drought Management Authority (NDMA), etc

v. Delegations from outside the nation eg Ethiopia Ministry of Agriculture, South Sudan Ministry of Agriculture and

Food Security, Uganda Prayer Network, and the Bunyoro- Kitara Kingdom transformation initiative

representatives, World Vision International (US), World Vision Malawi, World Vision Tanzania, World Vision

Rwanda, GAFCO and Vision Fund Tanzania, Somalia, a delegation of MPs from Nigeria, VSO, etc