Kenya: Feasibility Study

Sep 11, 2025 (Deadline: 2025-09-30)
Sign of Hope
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Background and Organisational Setting

Sign of Hope (SoH) is a Christian motivated organisation for Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance and Development Cooperation. From its base in Constance, Germany, SoH is committed to helping those in distress and exploited people worldwide.

This feasibility study is commissioned, prior to project implementation, under the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) budget for development projects run by private organisations.

SoH will be the private German executing agency and the contracting party, with Caritas Marsabit (CM)being the local implementing partner.

The goal of the proposed three years project is to improve access to safe, climate resilient WASH services, strengthen community capacity for sustainable natural resource management and peace building and enhance household resilience to climate change through climate smart livelihoods and inclusive governance in Marsabit County. As the project concept is currently in its development stage, it will further be refined until the start of the feasibility study, nevertheless the main frame will remain the same. The objectives will be realized through four output areas:

1) Enhance sustainable access to safe and reliable water for communities in Marsabit County by rehabilitating, developing, and climate-proofing water infrastructure. This will be achieved through; rehabilitation water harvesting structures,training of Water Management Committees (WMCs), participatory technical assessment and rehabilitation of non-functional water facilities and rehabilitation of one existing wetland.

2) Improve access to safe and sustainable sanitation and hygiene practices in Marsabit County. This will be achieved throughconstruction and rehabilitation of school latrines, training and activation of health clubs in schools and distribution of hygiene kits and menstrual hygiene management (MHM) support in two schools.

3) Strengthen community-led disaster risk reduction, environmental protection and peaceful coexistence among pastoralist communities. This will be realized through strengthening ward-based climate committees’ capacity, support harmonization of grazing plans and rights, support community-led seed multiplication and certification of selected indigenous pasture, training of Natural Resource Management (NRM) groups in Logologo, supporting two NRM groups to undertake briquette production and marketing and support reclamation of three acres of range lands through clearing of invasive Prosopis Juliflora and fencing.

4) Improve and diversify livelihood options for women and youths in Marsabit County. This will be attained through establishment and support of pastoralist production groups (honey, liquid soap making), drilling and equipping one borehole to support women and youths to undertake climate smart agriculture and support micro-irrigation scheme in Kalacha.

The project directly targets a total of 9,611 persons across Maikona, Laisamis and Logologo wards of Marsabit County.

Feasibility Study Objectives

The purpose of the feasibility study is to provide SoH with a sound basis for developing a complete project concept, by identifying project prerequisites, opportunities and risks. This process includes an assessment of the feasibility of the proposed project intervention to assess if it can plausibly achieve planned objectives given existing contextual realities.

This comprehensive study will verify relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the proposed project intervention. The study will provide concrete and practical recommendations that will assist with the finalisation of project design elements, including the logframe, risk analysis, problem analysis and relevance of the proposed project intervention, stakeholder analysis, among others.

The study will support the project quality assurance measures implemented by SoH and contribute to the decision-making process regarding the funding of the proposed project activities.