The National Council of community-based Organizations is the umbrella body of community-based Organizations (CBOs’) that are formed or constituted under the Social Service Department of the Ministry of Gender and Social Service. It is a non-profit and non-political civil society organization with a membership of 15,000 community-groups spread across 59 constituencies in Kenya.

It was founded in 2005 and legally registered in April 28th 2006, registration number 26027, under section 10 of the Societies Act, as a corporate body of self-help groups.

Our main objective is to build the capacity of CBO’s / self-help groups to become effective implementers of Millennium Development Goals and key implementation organs of the national vision (GoK’s Vision 2030 and industrialization objective).