PARTNERSHIPS & EVIDENCE
Community-Led. Partnership-Powered.
Dago leadership identifies priorities. Friends of Dago connects resources, institutions, and accountability around those priorities. Partners contribute specialized expertise, funding, services, learning, and long-term support.
How We Attribute Impact
Dago-specific outcome — evidence clearly tied to people, programs, or infrastructure in Dago.
Joint outcome — Dago Dala Hera, Friends of Dago, and one or more partners contributed to the same result.
Partner context — a partner’s broader results demonstrate capacity but are not counted as Dago outcomes.
Historical collaboration — documented earlier work, clearly dated so it is not confused with current reach.
Planned or project-specific initiative — a relationship or project exists, but delivered results are not published until verified.
The Standard
Whose result is it? When did it happen? Where did it happen? What evidence supports it?
We do not count a partner’s entire portfolio as Friends of Dago impact. We credit joint work, preserve historical context, and keep current Dago-specific metrics separate from partner-wide figures.
Learning & Life
Ascend Kenya (formerly Weiss Scholarship Foundation) supports scholarships, mentorship, academic monitoring, and postsecondary transition. Ascend’s current organization-wide dashboard reports 351 scholarships awarded, 166 high-school students, 69 vocational students, and 109 university students; those are partner-wide context. Historical Dago records separately identify 11 Dago scholars who progressed to university through KUCCPS.
Amani Partners Kenya supports Dago-Aldersgate education and sponsorship. Mission Partners Kenya publicly identifies itself as actively partnering with Friends of Dago on the Dago child-sponsorship program. One Way Out has a longer Dago education history beyond Threads of Hope. Historical Dago records document boarding-primary sponsorship through Sirua Aulo and a primary-to-secondary sponsorship pathway; One Way Out program materials also describe a girls’ secondary scholarship and community preschool/kindergarten support. APHIAplus is tracked separately as a historical systems partner.
Women’s Economic Empowerment
Toronto Metropolitan University / Project Dago reports 40 microloans, more than 40 businesses started, and 200 Kenyan women empowered through business education, financial literacy, and a revolving microfinance model.
One Way Out Kenya is the primary sponsor and developer—and principal funder—of Dago Threads of Hope. The relationship predates the tailoring program: historical Dago records document One Way Out sponsorship through Sirua Aulo and a broader primary-to-secondary education pathway, including a girls’ secondary scholarship. Dago Dala Hera leads local implementation, while Friends of Dago supports community coordination and partnership stewardship.
DesignLab Give is a contributing technical and creative partner. Its public Dago record documents work alongside One Way Out Kenya, Friends of Dago, Weiss Scholarship Foundation, Dream Sponsors, and Sanguinetti and Company. Friends of Dago records describe Threads of Hope as a multi-organization collaboration. Dream Sponsors contributed the My Girl TRIBE inner-wellness component, including self-esteem, goal-setting, relationship boundaries, inner voice, dream-journal work, and feminine-hygiene support. Current Dago reporting keeps its 120+ women across seven cohorts separate from historical partner-wide/project figures.
Youth Leadership, Sports & Health
Village Volunteers independently documents the 2009 Kick It with Kenya event in Dago: 360 participants across 24 teams, approximately 3,000 spectators per day, and integrated health services. The same record credits Youth Outreach Mentors, Kenya Red Cross, Awendo Health Center, Migori District Hospital, Migori Eye Clinic, and the St. Joseph’s District Hospital dental team.
The event’s recorded service totals—561 HIV tests, 164 under-five health services, more than 200 eye exams, 100 eyeglasses, and 64 dental exams—are treated as dated joint-event results, not as current annual reach.
Water, Agriculture & Dignity
Well Aware publicly identifies Dago among communities connected to its clean-water work. Friends of Dago’s internal records document a Dago water-filter effort supported through Amani Partners Kenya and Mission Partners Kenya, using Uzima filtration technology. Uzima is a program technology/resource within that effort, not a standalone Friends of Dago partner. Friends of Dago donor records also document sustained greenhouse-development support from Gloria S. Gladieux across 2023–2024, designated for the Greenhouse Development Program connected to the Dago Kogelo Primary School feeding program; this is recognized as individual project support rather than an institutional partnership.
Historical Village Volunteers and Toronto Metropolitan University records strengthen the agriculture and environmental story through organic-farm, agricultural-learning, and beekeeping work. Project-specific environmental relationships are kept separate from Dago outcome totals until geography and delivery are fully reconciled.
Implementation Partnership in Practice — Greener Nairobi
Greener Nairobi Urban Forestry demonstrates why Friends of Dago separates partner roles instead of using a generic partner list. Project records identify Friends of Dago as a local/lead implementation partner; IDEAS For Us holds the formal contractual implementation framework with One Tree Planted; One Tree Planted provides the project support/funding framework; FedEx contributes corporate engagement; VIO Society Kenya supports volunteer/community mobilization; and schools, KEMI, community organizations and local leaders contribute site learning and stewardship. As of September 2026, project reporting records 9,300 of 11,228 contractual trees planted. This Project is supported by One Tree Planted, Inc.
Dago365 — University & Learning Relationships
Dago’s documented learning-partnership history includes more than one kind of university relationship. Ryerson University / Toronto Metropolitan University includes distinct Alternative Spring Break/Fresh Start and SIFE/Enactus Project Dago streams. Rollins College officially documented a 2018 field study in Dago involving 12 students and community-development/microfinance learning. Primary 2014 correspondence verifies Harambee on the Hill student work in Dago; we classify that as UNC-Chapel Hill-linked student engagement rather than a formal UNC institutional partnership. University of Evansville correspondence separately documents International Club / UNICEF Campus Initiative campus engagement in 2016–2017.
These relationships are deliberately classified as institutional, university-linked, student-led, historical, or current rather than grouped together as generic “university partners.” The emerging Dago365 framework is intended to carry this history forward with clearer community authority, participant preparation, safeguarding, consent, evidence, reflection, and follow-up.
Our Commitment to Partners
Partners should be able to see their contribution represented accurately and in context. Friends of Dago therefore records the period, role, pathway, evidence source, Dago/community contribution, Friends of Dago role, and partner contribution behind major public claims.
For major current and long-term relationships, we are building an annual confirmation cycle covering preferred public name, relationship status, active years, approved public metrics, website, logo use where applicable, and safeguarding or data responsibilities.
Public partner data may be cited with clear source, period and population. Partner-wide figures are never converted into Dago totals without a Dago-specific denominator. Non-public partner data is used publicly only when an appropriate reporting or permission basis exists.
Historical Foundations & Capacity That Stayed
Dago’s partnership history includes early community work alongside Peace Corps Volunteer Caroline Kondrat, historical Heifer International dairy support, Village Volunteers health/agriculture/youth collaboration, Toronto Metropolitan University / Enactus Ryerson microfinance and enterprise work, and SawaSawa Foundation education, technology, arts, land and water-related support. These relationships are presented as dated contributions—not automatically as current partnerships.
That history matters because strong partnerships leave behind more than an activity: they can leave skills, assets, knowledge, local institutions, relationships and infrastructure that the community continues to adapt and build on.
How Partner Status Is Managed
Friends of Dago maintains a Master Partner Intelligence Register that classifies relationships as current, historical, project-specific, or pending verification. It records pathway alignment, roles, evidence, public-source verification, and next-review actions. Historical collaboration is not automatically described as a current partnership.
This evidence system is being applied across all six strategic pathways and feeds the Impact & Accountability framework, annual reporting, grant materials, and partner due diligence.
Build With the Community
Partners are invited to contribute expertise, resources, learning, and long-term commitment around priorities identified in Dago.