A locally-led NGO · South Tarawa, Kiribati
Empower Kiribati is a platform for community initiatives. We partner with ministries, funders and community organisations to design, deliver and measure work that cultivates the conditions for a resilient Kiribati.
Latest Irish Aid backs Empower Kiribati's support for the Ara BikeMarawa Rerei campaign
Grants awarded, sessions delivered and partnerships agreed, as they happen.
Support under Irish Aid's In Country Micro-Projects Scheme lets Empower Kiribati work alongside the Environment and Conservation Division on the Ara BikeMarawa Rerei shoreline campaign, starting with a workshop for local shoreline champions.
A series of sessions, backed by the U.S. Embassy Suva and delivered with American Councils for International Education Kiribati, introduced young people to the UUTI exchange programme and how to apply.
Three two-day rounds of the Empowering Community Leadership workshop, funded through the New Zealand High Commission, brought leadership, digital literacy and financial literacy skills to civil society, faith-based and community organisation leaders.
We are gaining momentum but we have only just begun.
All of this work has been on South Tarawa. Where we have a signed attendance register, we publish that number. Where a group was too large to count person by person, the figure we publish is lower than the number who were actually in the room.
Each of our programmes are informed by actual challenges faced by families and communities.
What holds it in place is conditions, not a lack of effort or ambition. Conditions can be changed.
Kiribati will not be changed from outside. It will be changed by I-Kiribati people with the skills, the systems and the standing to do it. We exist to build all three, and to raise the leaders who will keep building long after us.
Read why we existThe ministries, embassies and funds that back our work and shape it alongside national priorities.
“I once was a boss but not a leader. After the workshop I learnt a lot about the difference.”
We identify people by their role and the month, not by name. At the start of every workshop we tell participants that their individual answers will not be shared.
We are on the ground in South Tarawa, delivering with partners who checked us before they funded us. If you are looking for a partner in Kiribati who can plan, deliver and report properly, start here.
Embassies, ministries and funds
Tell us the outcome you are mandated to reach. We will come back with a design, a budget and the measures we will report against.
Agencies, NGOs and private sector
If your work needs an in-country partner who knows the communities and can run it properly, we can take that role or share it.
Community organisations, churches and schools
Tell us what your members are struggling with. If it sits in our work, we will look for the partner and the funding to make it happen.
Write to us and we will respond promptly. You will get a real answer, not a form response, and we will tell you plainly if we are not the right partner for it.
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