WHO WE ARE

Our story

ASSIST DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS is a Social Enterprise supporting the initiatives of private sector companies, non-profit organizations (NGOs), development institutions and community-based organisations (CBOs) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, of the UN Agenda 2030.

ASSIST was established and registered in April 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya. The company is led by a team of successful management professionals with over 30 years of extensive practical and managerial experience in projects related to "Economic Cooperation and Development", "National Quality Infrastructure" (NQI) and "Technical Vocational Education & Training" (TVET) in Europe, Asia and Africa.

The office in Nairobi serves as the basis to coordinate all projects for ASSIST which are being executed within Africa.

ASSIST is a Member of the United Nations Global Compact since 2019.

SDGs Board Game Tournaments at Farasi Lane Primary School  and in Mathare, Nairobi

SDGs Board Game Tournament at Highridge Primary School in Parklands, Nairobi


Small changes with a big difference

Over the last 4 years, ASSIST has been primarily involved in providing capacity building and technical assistance at enterprise, professional and community levels across a variety of subject matter and markets.

In addition to its own projects, ASSIST has successfully implemented over 15+ projects in collaboration with bilateral and multilateral donors and organizations such as UN Habitat, DEG (KfW), KfW, GIZ, MESPT, RTI International, AECF, TMEA, NIRAS, Particip and others across 4 countries and is very familiar with the processes and expectations of donor-funded projects.  


THE TEAM

Meet our core team members

Klaus Ehret

Director

Miranda Allan

Projects Office Coordinator and Finance