KickStart designs and develops climate-smart, highly affordable, and reliable irrigation tools that enable farmers to transform their livelihoods and build lasting food security. These appropriate technologies are specifically designed for the complex needs of …

KickStart has operations across 17 high-priority countries across Africa, managed by three Regional Hubs in Kenya, Nigeria, and Zambia.

Headquarters – Kenya. P.O. Box 64142 Nairobi 00620 Kenya +254-20-3740176 [email protected]

KickStart works to catalyze system changes supporting the widescale irrigation uptake across SSA. We partner to prove scale and carefully measure the impacts to build a body of evidence to support the adoption of irrigation.

Join our Evergreen Circle of monthly donors. Members provide critical monthly support to our work, ensuring KickStart’s impacts throughout the year. Join this dedicated group of supporters and help families keep their farms green year-round.

With KickStart’s irrigation pumps, farmers transform their livelihoods and establish profitable, sustainable, and climate-resilient enterprises. The secret is selling in the off-season – capturing higher profits when supply is low.

Partnership is central to KickStart’s impact strategy. We work with +350 mission-aligned organizations to employ the powerful benefits of irrigation to achieve their diverse program goals – spanning food security, livelihoods, climate-adaptation, and many more.

KickStart works with MFIs, banks, CoOps, VSLAs, and other financing partners across SSA to provide and expand financial access to farmers to buy pumps, especially women and youth who often have little access to credit.

Martin Fisher is the co-founder and CEO of KickStart International. The son of a physics professor, Martin was born in London and grew up in New York in the US. He studied engineering at Cornell University and after an MSc and PhD at Stanford University he took a year off to go to Kenya on a Fulbright Fellowship to study the impacts of ...

Peter Juma joined KickStart in 2003 as a Finance and Admin Officer in Western Kenya, but was quickly promoted to Country Head of Finance, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Finance Director, and in 2012 Global Director of Finance, IT & Supply Chain, where he put in place systems that transformed KickStart’s operational efficiency, business ...