Support for Tropical Initiatives in Poverty Alleviation (STIPA) is a Non-Governmental Organization located in Kisumu. The organization was constituted and registered in Kenya under the NGO Act of Kenya on 25th September 1997. STIPA aims at alleviating poverty amongst the rural poor through the use and promotion of local initiatives and local resources. The desired vision is to see communities and organizations empowered to control their lives and include vulnerable members in planning and effectively implementing their programs and projects to alleviate poverty. 

Projects Implemetation Overview:

STIPA is upscaling three value chains namely; Beans, KIIC, and sorghum value chain projects as follows:

STIPA implements crop projects through a model called Mother and Baby innovation platform. The Mother plots serve as demonstration farms to foster farmer-to-farmer learning. This is the field school where farmers come to learn step-by-step processes of production to post-harvest activities. The farm is owned and managed by selected lead farmers with adequate managerial ability to plant all three varieties, including a common old cultivar as a Control. The baby plot belongs to individual farmers, who cultivate at least one preferred new variety and one common old cultivar as a Control. The objective of the model is to reach a large number of farmers for mass production for the market.