PED Group carries out Consultancies in line with the national plans and policies namely Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP), Plan for Modernization of Agriculture (PMA), Macro-Economic stability, Good governance and Infrastructure development. The aim is to make sure that PEDGroup operations are carried out systematically and in line with the national development goals.
PED Group Programme themes are therefore based in three broad areas i.e. People-Environment -Development.
Theme 1: People and Social Sector
PED Group of consultants recognizes the fact that sustainable development can only be attained when people play a central part of initiating it. Empowering people both as individuals and groups and understanding people as part of the environment can play a key role in inspiring such development.
PED Group seeks to bring people in the center of development through eight key consultancy aspects. These include,
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Capacity Building
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Institutional and Stakeholder Analysis
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Process Facilitation
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Participatory Appraisals
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Perception Mapping
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Focus Group discussions
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Participatory learning and action planning
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Conflict resolution
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Society moral building (corruption Awareness)
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Social Impact Assessments (SIA)
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Socio-economic and cultural surveys
Theme 2: Environment
Environmental sustainability is a development issue in to day’s world. Faced with problems of climate change, taking care of our environment is an important issue that we need to invest in.
PED Group through its consultancy work, seeks to contribute towards this global demand through four aspects; these include,
Natural resource management and Environmental concerns
Due to population pressure on natural resources, public concern on environmental and social impacts on natural resources has been growing day by day. PEDGroup of Consultants is determined to work with its partners in addressing these issues in a manner that promotes sustainable utilization of resources. This is done through,
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Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA)
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Environmental Management and Monitoring Plans
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Environmental profile development
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Land use planning and Management
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Forest , wetlands Conservation and Management
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Solid waste management
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Water resource management
Theme 3: Development
Today it is not only development that is needed but rather sustainable development. Achieving sustainable development requires having solutions to problems that are appropriate and pragmatic. PED Group understands that development of any kind starts with the people themselves. The Consultancy focuses on seven key areas which include,
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Capacity building and Empowerment
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Policy advocacy
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Good governance and Institutional development
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Livelihood Analysis and program development
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Health Sector development (HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention)
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Education Sector development
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Agriculture Sector development (Food Security & Marketing)
These five strategic themes are advanced through all the programs. In pursuit of these strategic themes, PED Group of consultants applies approaches of;
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Problem analysis
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Gender
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Partnership
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Cultural respec
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Livelihood assessment
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Right based approaches
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Poverty analysis and assessment approaches
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Socio – economic assessments
