Welcome to
Katonte Development Perspectives
KDP is a development consultancy that analyses political and economic circumstances of different sectors and places. We seek to understand who holds power, how they acquired it, and strategies they employ to maintain it.
Our goal is not to counter this power or work against it but to work out, given these circumstances, what can and cannot sensibly be done to help progress the process of positive change.
KDP focuses its support on WORKING politically. This includes, facilitating knowledge transfer between actors in an informal way, not through formal coalitions. KDP shares its experience with project managers on how to navigate complex political arrangements, devising effective change advocacy action.
Our Product
KDP is a new company, but its staff and associates bring a wealth of experience to the development field, both in thinking and in working politically. We have worked and liaised together in this field, and think in a similar way. We aim to “do development differently,” focussing on demand as opposed to supply-driven development.
The Team
Our Core Values
We are dedicated to developing young talent to see things through a locally driven and politically sensitive lens; we look to link change to business growth as a driver of service delivery and development which can help build democratizing classes from within; We aim to use some of our profits to support social enterprise; and doing our own development to help local communities.