Public/Community Management Environment:

The Center recognizes the fact that environment degradation stems from the immediate community. Thus; it will seek to encourage proper practices that will ensure meaningful utilization of the available resources.

Capability Building

The center will seek to undertake extensive and practical capacity building in various ways:
(a) Carrying out educational and awareness initiatives in school, colleges, churches, community centers etc.
(b) More Specifically, the center will use as much as possible teacher trainees on their teaching practice to instruct larger group of educators.
The center realizes that its only when people know what things spoil the environment that they can take a keen and sure interest in their daily activities. The center further realizes that its with such information that the populace can enforce environmental standards.

Corporate Environmental Management

-> The center is alive to the fact that today, big companies and industrial establishments are major distributors to the deteriorating environmental standards.
-> To this, the center will endevour to ameliorate it by working out a method of ensuring that the industrial establishments make a real contribution towards the general cleanup.
-> Further, the center will seek to harmonize the various institutions of research to come up with a workable solution towards the problem of unilateral environmental management decisions.
-> Thus, the center will majorly solicit undertakings from companies on proper discharge processes.
-> It will also instrumentalize the thorough research into the various technologies used in the various industrial process.

Research

The center clearly recognizes the central place occupied by proper and thorough research into a given field of concern. To this end, the center will highly articulate research into any of the fields that is of concern. More so, it will link up with other institutions for integration for information.

Conflict and Conflict Resolution

The center in relation to this will:
(a) Seek to identify at the earliest possible stages, situations that could produce armed conflicts, and hence suggests ways of removing the sources of danger before ensuance of violence.
(b) Where armed conflicts have erupted, to engage in exploring and suggesting methods of resolving the issues that have led to such conflicts.
(c) To put forward mechanisms of reconciling belligerent parties in different context; building the institutions and infrastructure of nations torn by civil war and strifes and building bonds of peaceful mutual co-existence of belligerent parties at wars.

Policy Studies

Various policies affecting virtually every human activity have been promulgated. These policies have not been fully studied e.g. policies related to structural adjustments programmes. The center will therefore study these policies among others and come up with practical ways and means of implanting them.

Biodiversity

ICESPS strives to create an environment in which local communities can work in partnership with national forestry, wildlife and environmental agencies to promote sustainable use of biodiversity resources. Balancing resource demand and supply through the development of resource management plans. Alternative economic activities, sources and management regime. Maintaining of Biodiversity considerations into cross-sectoral development planning and decision making and establishment of replicable approaches to cross border conservation activities. The organization looks at the interaction levels amongst these at genetic, species and ecosystem.

Waste Management

ICESPS promotes the systematic administrative activities which provide for collection, separation, storage, processing, transportation and disposal of waste both solid and liquid. This has been the biggest problem facing most African countries. It is attributed to lack of adequate funds, lack of trained personnel, lack of transportation and disposal facilities which ICESPS has been at the fore front to provide to communities especially in rural and urban slums setting.
ICESPS activities have so far achieved lessened health hazard through controlled heaps of solid waste from both domestic and industrial areas, lessening water pollution systems that serve as hatching grounds for houseflies and mosquitoes that are agents of gastro-intestinal diseases communities have come to accept the strategy due to reduction of incidents of cholera, dysentery, malaria and yellow fever.

Chemicals

ICESPS undertakes a continuous process of assessing and reducing risk or the likelihood that a chemical will harm human - animal or the environment, Risk varies with exposure to types of chemicals and management therefore requires priorities, a spirit to prevent problems rather than simply react to them since management of chemicals requires supervision of production, transportation, storage, distribution, use and disposal means chemicals are handled by many people. It is in this regard that ICESPS coordinate with a number of agencies and communities in management and promotion of the development of safer chemicals, clean production technologies and safer handling.

Human Settlement/Slums upgrading.

Icesps runs a programme of encouraging legislation of policies aimed at enabling the rural and urban poor achieve secure tenure as one of the approaches towards poverty eradication. Further to assist the rural and urban poor especially residents of slums, Icesps identifies and assists especially in Nairobi, the dwellers to upgrade their poor housing systems and sewage facilities. This is a demanding commitment that requires concerted efforts as majority of urban population reside in slums.

Forestry

ICESPS diversity promote the protection of forests, woodlands and trees in general which provide a wide range of economic, social and ecological benefits. The organization has undertaken a sustained campaign against opening more farmland and unsustained timber exploitation due to increase in population and economic hardships resultant that eventually leads to deforestation and degradation of the resources. ICESPS takes an important contribution towards achieving sustainable development by undertaking ecologically responsible economically viable and socially acceptable management of forests, woodlands and trees outside the forests.

Migratory Birds

ICESPS accepts the role birds play in influencing the ecosystem and strives to assist towards protection and total reduction of migration patterns. Birds continue to seasonally migrate from one point to another within the region. This can be controlled through environmental conservation since factors behind the migration drought, pollution, destruction of forests and other environmental systems. In this process of migration, the numbers of these birds have been noticed to reduce significantly and this necessitates the creation of networks for conservation strategies that are at the exposal of communities.

Clean Water

In the region, rivers form the bases of drinking and cooking water followed by ground water while rainwater rank third. ICESPS assists communities in drilling bore holes, upgrading river points and rainwater harvesting technologies. Seasonal rainfall results to lack of sustained minimum flow which usually worsens water quality. ICESPS assists in provision of more water, quality and management since life patterns change in the villages during bad season.

Eco-tourism

ICESPS focus has been to preserve and improve the ecosystems to direct benefit of the communities. The organization recognizes that human beings are no more than ever facing major economic and social arises that originate from bio-resources. ICESPS organizes and assists directly people within and neighbouring the wildlife and tourism attraction centers as beneficiaries. ICESPS took ecotourism concept as new phenomenon in economic empowerment and so far it has initiated and assisted communities towards utilization and preservation of wildlife and other resources.

Micro - Finance

Icesps has introduced the microfinance programme targeting the rural and urban poor who can access credit without the rigous process of providing collateral and other demands from commercial banks. The organization runs a very successful revolving fund projects managed by groups both in rural and urban slums which has greatly improved the livelihoods of the rural and urban households in supplementing stakeholders efforts to eradicate poverty. Financial -business management training is offered and the saving culture instilled.

Energy and cleaner production.

Icesps recognizes climate change as one of the most critical environmental issues facing us today. Though it is impossible to predict the exact effects of global climate change, we can reduce the root cause of global warming the build of green house gases in the atmosphere especially through burning of fossil fuels to generate energy for industry. We should all become energy conscious and energy efficient. Icesps raises awareness of the problem and give practical advice on how to reduce energy consumption while improving efficiency. Further Icesps runs programmes related to cleaner production technologies especially assisting micro, small medium and large enterprises to produce goods and services while controlling or minimizing the amount of waste generated in the process for energy efficiency and environmental protection.

Gender

ICESPS recognizes contribution by women towards environmental conservation as great actors on the environment. Increase in water pollution, improper waste management destruction of water catchment areas and deforestation have to a greater extent reduced through ICESPS sustained assistance to women to manage their environmental surroundings. Overall, the approach has elevated women participation in policymaking, politics, leadership, micro finance and other public aspects affecting their lives. ICESPS promotes and assist abused women and children to fight/lobby for their rights.

Micro-Credit and Rural Poverty Alleviation

The centre recognizes that poor people in developing countries do not need charity. They want a hands-up not a handout. Since the earliest days, it has been clear that the best form of development is one in which the people themselves have pride. The centre sees community action as being better than overseas aid.
Taking cognizance of the fact that nearly half the population of any given country is supported by modest small scale business the centre has established as part of its mission the following goals as a prime standards of achievement:
(a) to foster a process of on-going change in favour of rural poor in a way in which this process can be sustained by them through their efforts.
(b) to build and manage appropriate and innovative local level institutions rooted in values of justice, equity and mutual support, which can ensure their sustainable livelihoods;
(c) to recreate a self-sustaining habitat based on balanced perspective of the relationship between natural resources and the legitimate needs of people;
(d) to influence public policy in favour of the poor and to build supportive institutional linkages between official institutions and peoples organization.
(e) To support all causes leading to the emergence of work for the benefit of rural areas; and to promote networking and partnership in the field of micro-credit to enhance rural poverty alleviation.

Training

More trained personnel is required by African countries to make maximum use of new technologies and become competitive in global markets. There is need in Africa for more people with expertise in handling the regulatory and policy issues related to the application of new technologies. Africa could find itself slipping further behind the rest of the world in economic competitiveness, unless this serious human resource issue is addressed.

In response the centre shall undertake the following:

(a) Collaborate in short or long term training in specific areas;
(b) Training needs assessment and advice.
(c) Seminars, visits and exchange programs designed for familiarization of young professionals with regulatory and policy approaches successfully applied in other parts of the developing world.

For this purpose the centre shall seek to forge partnerships and to work with partners for facilitation of exchange programs and hosting of colloqia, seminars and trainees on behalf of partners and vice versa.

Eco-tourism

Africa and especially Kenya, is not alien to the eco-tourism debate. Great emphasis has been placed on the role of community ecotourism and ways that it can lead to social and economic development, as well as in helping in conserving biological diversity.

There are a great many opportunities for communities to engage in tourism, granted wildlife resources, attractive landscape and cultural heritage. There is increasing recognition of people's rights to benefit from their resources and to develop enterprises opportunities.

To promote ecotourism the centre world seek to focus on: -> Better research and planning of projects including community involvement and awareness.
-> Facilitating communities' access to services such as feasibility studies and planning, institution building, negotiation, contracting and management of small business.
-> More attention for issues of tenure over land resources (often national policies do not support community efforts).
-> Facilitate joint ventures between communities and the private sector.
-> Developing practical marketing policies.

The centre will also seek to guarantee a fair and equitable sharing of benefits derived from sustainable use of natural resources , especially ecotourism. For ecotourism to contribute successfully to sustainable rural development, it must be well regulated and managed by local communities.

To realize the full potential of ecotourism as a tool for sustainable development the centre has come up with the following steps for consideration.

(1) land revenue and natural resource -use rights must be restored to local communities.
(2) Local communities must be encouraged to participate in designing ecotourism management plans in their regions. (This entails training in environmental management, tourism and sustainable development).
(3) International guidelines for ecotourism must be developed and adhered to.
(4) Safari hunting must be recognized as allegitimate form of ecotourism.

The centre will forster partnership with tour operators, lodge and hotel owners and local communities to give primacy to sustainable aspect of the operation.
Indeed the center has entered into partnership with Grand Edition Tours to foster eco-tourism in East Africa.