- Program: CDTD Initiatives
- Location: Keiyo Rd, Nairobi
- Facilitator:CDTD
- Catetory: All-round Development
- Time: Since 2001
Information
CDTD Initiatives
The Centre for Domestic Training and Development (CDTD) is a Non-Governmental Organization that works towards better livelihood outcomes for girls and women in domestic labor and other vulnerable groups of women in the community. Using established partnerships and collaborations with government and other CSOs, CDTD targets and benefits girls and women in domestic labor, migrants, victims of trafficking, refugees’/asylum seekers, and victims of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence through comprehensive programming geared towards recovery, social reintegration, and economic empowerment.
CDTD’s VISION is: – “A society with structures that enable less privileged girls and women to take on ownership of their lives.” Our MISSION is: – “To be a dynamic organization that strengthens the potential of vulnerable girls and women through Research, Advocacy, Shelter, Psycho-social Support, Education, Skills Training, and Economic Empowerment.”
CDTD’s Objectives
- To equip women and youth with home management skills and to strengthen their capacity to negotiate for reasonable terms and conditions of service
- To digitalize professional domestic work services and create an employee-employer feedback platform
- To reduce workplace vulnerability of domestic workers in Kenya and the region by enhancing consciousness and awareness on existing policies and laws.
- To facilitate effective collective voice and action through CDTD’s Domestic Workers’ Transformation Program, enabling domestic workers to harness opportunities arising from policy and practice reforms affecting the domestic sector
- To provide safe shelter, direct assistance, counseling, and support services to domestic workers, victims of trafficking in persons, children rescued from worst forms of child labor, and migrants
- To create awareness on HIV/AIDS prevention and management, to provide life skills education, and to educate girls and women on reproductive health issues
- To network and collaborate with other organizations in advocating and lobbying for the rights of domestic workers in promoting and protecting women’s and children’s rights
Some of the issues that CDTD focuses on include:
Under this pillar are 3 programs namely:
a) Talia Agler Girls Shelter - the Talia Agler Girls Shelter, is CDTD’s protection arm and is dedicated to providing abused girls and young women (between 0-25 years) in domestic labor among other sectors as well as victims of human trafficking with services necessary for their recovery and social reintegration for their recovery and social reintegration. Other shelter’s activities include carrying out interventions in incidences of rights violations, including violation of SRHRs. It also includes providing temporary {safe} shelter for SGBV survivors, undertaking employer-employee mediation, and enabling aggrieved Domestic Workers/vulnerable women and girls to access justice by assisting with reporting – either through Labour Offices or to the Police and assisting with follow up. Using a 4R approach of: Reach, Rescue, Rehabilitate and Reintegrate, victims are provided with shelter, counseling, medical and other services depending on their security concerns – those with heightened security risks are protected accordingly.
b) National Shelters Network – this is a network of shelter service operators drawn from 15 counties of Kenya. The members share a passion for rescuing and rehabilitating and reintegrating victims of SGBV and other forms of abuse. A what’s up group has been formed and members share referrals at the click of a button. The network is advocating for the registration and recognition of shelters in the fight against GBV
c) Girls Hub – this is a platform for amplifying survivor voices. Survivors are given an opportunity to speak and lend their voices to the fight against GBV.
This pillar supports the empowerment of Domestic Workers in Kenya. For the past 2 decades, CDTD has been working directly with Domestic Workers, mobilizing them, giving them skills for employment, advocating for their rights, and helping them to self-organize for collective action. At the moment CDTD has created 10 homecare hubs which are community outreach centers where Domestic Workers meet and learn leadership, mentorship, and homecare skills. CDTD is in the process of digitalizing its employment services so as to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on Domestic Workers.
This pillar supports the work of CDTD of contributing to the fight against human trafficking and promoting safe migration. CDTD has been involved in creating the migrants’ curriculum for homecare management and pre-departure training for migrant workers. Through the TAGS shelter, victims of trafficking are provided with a continuum of services vital for their recovery and social reintegration. CDTD has been working with migrant women, preparing them before departure, and supporting those in distress and is a member of the counter-trafficking in persons technical working group under IOM. CDTD was a member of the taskforce that developed the guidelines for assisting victims of trafficking in the EAC.
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