We champion for inclusive education in early years and respect for the rights of all children.
About Cresnet
CRESNET is a non-profit organization actively supporting inclusion as a basic human right of every child. The organization works towards raising public awareness and advocating for restructuring of mainstream provision of education and child protection services to value, respect and support the learning and development of all children regardless of ability, ethnic/cultural background or any other differences.
Our Vision
A society where the rights of all children are fulfilled
Our Mission
We are a child rights focused organization working to ensure all children have access to their rights and opportunities for improvement of their well-being in the society.
Programs
Inclusive Education
We work to ensure children who are most at risk of missing out education – including girls, those with special needs and disabilities, refugees, and those living in rural and low income areas – are able to benefit from a quality inclusive education. We invest our efforts in championing for Inclusive early childhood education (ECE), early assessment and intervention for children with disabilities, foundational literacy and numeracyfor early grade learners.
Child Rights Governance and Programming
We sensitize and build capacity of children and duty bearers to advance realization of the rights of children, improve programming and accountability for child rights by duty bearers, and monitor the human rights reporting commitments for relevant conventions and charters signed by the government of Kenya.
Child Protection and safeguarding
We work with a wide range of childcare and protection stakeholders to build grassroots organizations capacity on child safeguarding and strengthen Community Child Protection Systems as a measure to combat and end all forms of violence on children.
Research and Innovation
We aim to improve learning outcomes by uncovering new ways of creating and delivering education and training in different contexts and cultures. This includes scanning, testing and incubating ideas on improving education delivery and training into Ed-Tech and Assistive-Techsolutions.
How we work
- We employ right-based approaches to tackle the reasons why children’s rights are denied and promote sustainable solutions
- We work with partners to provide immediate help to children in difficult situation as we address the violations and gaps in provision of their rights
- We contribute to strengthening policies and mechanisms by influencing and building capacity of duty bearers to change legislations, policies and practices at the national and sub national levels to better realize the rights of all children
- We work with partners to provide immediate help to children in difficult situation as we address the violations and gaps in provision of their rights