Sustainability Strategies Adopted by International Training and Education Centre for Health Kenya

Abstract

Sustainability is the management and coordination of environment, financial social and economic resources to ensure success and continuity. Social, environmental and economic demands are considered the three pillars of sustainability. There is a wealth of knowledge on the process of improving an organizations sustainability built by the experience of many people who have worked over many years to improve the sustainability of many different organizations. The main insight from this collective experience is that an organizations level of commitment to sustainability is the most important factor of success. International Training and Education Centre for Health ITECH Kenya operates in Kenya as a non-governmental organization with its headquarters in the United States of America Seattle. The organization is funded through the health resources services agency mechanism and the project is monitored through the center for disease control. This means that the organization has only one source of funding for its project in Kenya. This project sought to investigate the sustainability strategies that the organization in Kenya adopts to ensure it is attractive for alternative sources of funds and the challenges it encounters in doing so. The data for this study was collected by use of an interview guide and content analysis used to analyse the data. The key findings of the study were that the organization has adopted various sustainability strategies to ensure sustainability among them, paradigm shift in programming, key partnerships with other like-minded organizations, enhanced human resource compensation and reward systems. There are other strategies that the organization could improve on and enhance as found from the research. Further research is recommended to study the effectiveness of the different strategies employed for the organization