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  • A SYSTEM THAT WORKS

    We collaborate with a network of self-managed, artisanal groups who together, make up an extended “multi-craft workshop”, spread over a vast geographical area.

    The majority of these micro-entrepreneurs are organised into Self Help Groups (SHGs) with a communal goal of achieving economic empowerment. Forming a SHG is the most cost-effective way for a community group to become a registered business. To be registered is key for the simple reason that a registered worker exists under the law. Just one benefit of this is that the children of that worker are then far more likely to be able to secure a place at school.

    Each of the diverse groups we work with observes the same quality standard. Each is supported by a team of technical supervisors. It is up to each group to select its management from within. The Ethical Fashion Programme (EFP) provides the business infrastructure to support and enable these groups to thrive while also managing the necessary logistics from product development to production to dispatch.

    Central to EFP is a hub which is both a physical place and a business entity. The hub, through which all production passes, is located at the GoDown Arts Centre, a vibrant creative nexus in downtown Nairobi. It is operated by Ethical Fashion Africa Ltd (EFAL), a not-for-profit company, founded by The Ethical Fashion Programme and owned by a charitable trust.

    EFAL co-ordinates the work of all the community micro-entrepreneurs to ensure this matches standards of artisanal fashion production anywhere else in the world. While members of each group are paid for the work they do while EFAL implements a strong social agenda.
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