ABOUT US

The Centre for Science and Technology Innovations (CSTI) is a Trust registered in 1998 by the Registrar of Societies under the Trustees Act Chapter 167, Laws of Kenya. It is located at the Kenya National Academy of Sciences, Utalii House, Utalii Street, 8th Floor, Nairobi, Kenya.

It has six Trustees, namely:
  • Prof. Shem O. Wandiga - Managing Trustee
  • Prof. Eric O. Odada - Trustee
  • Justice Prof. Jacton B. Ojwang - Trustee
  • Dr. Maggie Opondo - Trustee
  • Dr. Dan Olago - Trustee
  • Dr. Gilbert Ouma - Trustee

 

The Centre for Science has been working towards the improvement of science teaching and learning by holding training workshops for teachers in different provinces in the country.

 

The Centre is appealing for donors to help needy schools purchase the kits, on its part, the Centre will facilitate the training of teachers and technical back up on the microscience kits and experiments at no extra cost to the donor or the school.

 

How to Budget for a School

  • Ideally one equipment kit per learner; the minimum recommended ratio is 1kit to four learners. The cost of one kit is Kshs. 640/-
  • One Chemical Kit will suffice for 50 - 100 learners for a period of one year. Individual bottles may also be replenished. The cost of one Chemicals Kit is Kshs 6,500/-
For more info contact Prof. Shem O Wandiga

 

The aims of the Centre are:

• To promote innovation in science teaching at the secondary and tertiary education levels through the incorporation of new trends in the sciences.

• To enhance the transfer of science and technology research to distressed communities of Kenya for economic development.

• To promote constructive linkages between science and industry for the enhancement of economic development.

• To carry out any other or further activity that is incidental or ancillary to the above.

• To promote the effective use of science and technology in the food production process.

• To facilitate initiatives to achieve greater efficiency through the adoption of good scientific principles in the provision of various categories of service.

• To promote the use of information and communication technology in the promotion of science and technology.

• To collaborate with other centres with similar objectives and aims.

• To act as a clearing house of knowledge and skills between researchers/research institutions and end-users, including policy makers.

• To perform any other duty furthering the development, promotion and dissemination of science and technology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CSTI REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS ON VARIOUS TOPICS WITHIN OUR SCOPE OF OPERATION

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A CSTI Publication
Title: Community based adaptation to increased drought
Date released: 2008-12-29
Author: CSTI
Community based adaptation to increased drought - Sakai Project Progress.....
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Title: Preparing for climate change in Kenya
Date released: 2008-12-01
Author: CSTI
Preparing for climate change in Kenya-Early outcomes for the project "Increasing Community Resilience to Drought in Makueni District".....
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Title: CSTI Overview
Date released: 2007-11-20
Author: CSTI
Presentation for Kenya Eco-Industry Workshop.....
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Title: Logframe Presentation
Date released: 2006-07-01
Author: CSTI
helps managers in Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of the projects that they are involved in. Helps to design the project in a way that enables the managers to be perfectly in charge of every stage of the project cycle......
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ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Title: Preparing for climate change in Kenya
Date released: 2008-12-01
Author: CSTI
Preparing for climate change in Kenya-Early outcomes for the project "Increasing Community Resilience to Drought in Makueni District"..... download......
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Title: Increasing Community Resilience to Drought
Date released: 2008-02-01
Author: Prof. Shem Wandiga
The objective includes reducing community vulnerability to drought exarcerbated by climate variability and change in the Makueni district by implementing a field demonstration project to produce tangible benefits to the community and gather information from the field and relate it to the information needs for policy makers in order to inform policies, in particular the policies on; Environment and Development; Natural Resource Management; Natural Disaster Management and Sustainable Development of Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL)......
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Title: Policy Actions
Date released: 2007-01-01
Author: James Oduor
Improving local adaptive strategies in the context of improving existing livelihood systems and long term sustainable development......
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Title: Seed Bulking
Date released: 2007-01-01
Author: James Oduor & Daniel Mbuvi
The main seed bulking activity will be based on the understanding that the communities will have been properly sensitised on appropriate farming methods during the demonstration pilot phase September 2006 to March 2007......
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Title: GEF Assembly Presentation
Date released: 2006-08-01
Author: Daniel Mbuvi
Document on Integration Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change into Sustainable Development Planning in Southern and Eastern Africa: Kenya Pilot country......
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Title: Creating GIS for Mapping Climate Change
Date released: 2006-03-01
Author: Felix Mutua, Simon Kiprop, John Gitau
Introduction into the project "Creating GIS for mapping climate change, vulnerability and adaptability" .....
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Bridging Water Research
Title: The Challenges of Bridging Water Research Technology
Date released: 2006-12-01
Author: Prof. Shem Wandiga
A paper presented at workshop on "Bridging Research, Technology and Development: Sustainable Water Resource Management in East Africa" Travellers Beach Hotel, Mombasa-Kenya, 4th - 8th December 2006......
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Creating GIS
Title: GIS Data Layers
Date released: 2007-01-01
Author: CSTI
Designed, developed and implemented the spatial representation of population, poverty indices, and socio-economic data for Makueni District. Performed analysis on the presented data for optimum benefits in decision-making......
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Title: Sakai - Report
Date released: 2006-10-01
Author: Felix Mutua
This project was to develop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for displaying, managing and aiding analysis of various demographic, spatial and socio-economic datasets based on household surveys carried out in Sakai sub-location, in three villages namely, Kathamba, Nthongoni and Linga in Makueni district, Kenya......
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Title: Land Suitability Evaluation for Arable Crops using GIS
Date released: 2005-01-01
Author: Felix Nzive Mutua
This document seeks to justify reasons to perform crop suitability and land evaluation for Makueni district using integration of GIS and remote sensing technologies, within the context of climate adaptability.....
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DDT Vs Malaria
Title: Reintroduction of DDT into The Fight Against Malaria
Date released: 2006-11-01
Author: Prof. Shem Wandiga
Document was presented at KDSA Regional conference, 30th November - 1st December 2006 University of Nairobi on "Reintroduction of DDT into The Fight Against Malaria: HOW DANGEROUS IS THE PROPOSAL" .....
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Microchemistry
Title: Microelectrochemistry - Manual for Learners
Date released: 2006-01-01
Author: UNESCO
Microelectrochemistry - Manual for Learners.....
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Title: Microelectrochemistry - Manualy for Teachers
Date released: 2006-01-01
Author: UNESCO
Microelectrochemistry - Manualy for Teachers.....
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Title: Water Quality and Water Treatment - Manual for Teachers
Date released: 2006-01-01
Author: UNESCO
Water Quality and Water Treatment - Manual for Teachers.....
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Title: Micro-Chemistry Teachers Guides
Date released: 2006-01-01
Author: UNESCO
Micro-Chemistry Teachers Guides.....
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Title: Primary Micro-Science Experiments
Date released: 2006-01-01
Author: UNESCO
Primary Micro-Science Experiments.....
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Title: One-Page Micro-Chemistry Worksheets
Date released: 2006-01-01
Author: UNESCO
One-Page Micro-Chemistry Worksheets.....
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Sakai Report
Title: Water Harvesting and Mining
Date released: 2007-01-24
Author: Dr. Daniel O. Olago
The main harzard that affects Sakai division of Makueni district is drought. For the last 10 years droughts have been prolonged frequent and servere and have had serious negative effects of the main livelihood, mixed farming, where crop production is the dorminant activity. The component aims to construct sand dams, wells,........
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Title: Sakai Project Progress II
Date released: 2007-01-07
Author: Daniel Mbuvi
To conduct field demonstrations using key crops to enlighten farmers on; appropriate crop varieties; appropriate crop husbandry practices; effective use of climate and weather information in agriculture; benefits of using clean seed; and initial seed bulking......
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Title: Achievements - Sakai
Date released: 2007-01-06
Author: James Oduor
Project benefits and community capacity building to respond to drought......
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Title: Sakai - Adaptation to Climate Change
Date released: 2005-01-01
Author: Martin M. Kamwanza
Main factor that causes livelihood vulnerability in the project area is inappropriate farming methods caused by ........
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Weather Report
Title: Review of Rainfall During the “Long Rains” (March to May) 2009 Season and Outlook for June-July-August (JJA) 2009 Period
Date released: 2009-05-29
Author: Kenya Meteorological Department
The “Long Rains” (March to May) season in 2009 has ended over most parts of the country. As per the prediction, the performance of the season over most parts of the country was generally poor. This poor performance was depicted both in terms of amounts and distribution (both in time and space) of the rainfall especially over the northern, coastal and southeastern parts of the country. Most meteorological stations in these areas recorded rainfall that was below 60 percent of the Long‐Term Means (LTMs) of March to May. However, stations like Voi (in southeastern lowlands) and Wajir (in northeastern areas) managed to record slightly over 70% of their seasonal LTMs rainfall in less than 5 days. Despite a late onset of the season, the western parts of the country recorded significant rainfall amounts that were also well distributed and resulted to floods and even loss of lives and destruction of property in some areas like the Kano plains in Lake Victoria Basin......
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Title: Weather Outlook March-May 2008
Date released: 2008-03-01
Author: Kenya Meteorological Department
Review of weather during the "Short-rains (October-December) 2007 season and observed situation during January-February 2008 period, as well as forecasts for the 'long-rain' season......
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Title: Global Ectropy Presentation
Date released: 2007-08-05
Author: CSTI
Ectropy is a term coined in 1963 by an American philosopher, Willard van Orman Quine (1908-2000). It is defined as "a measure of the tendency of a dynamical system to do useful work and grow more organized.".....
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Title: Situation Review of ASAL Policies in Kenya
Date released: 2007-01-04
Author: Dr. Maggie Opondo
Situation Review of ASAL Policies in Kenya.....
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Title: Sand Dams Timeline
Date released: 2007-01-01
Author: CSTI
Sand Dams Timeline.....
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Title: Weather-Climate Prediction and Interpretation
Date released: 2007-01-01
Author: CSTI
Analyze the distribution of rainfall during the analogue year and use the results as the expected onset dates, distribution and cessation dates for the coming season......
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