From GAME Zones to Peace Tables: How Youth-led Programs, Cross-Cultural Learning, and Strategic Leadership are Redefining Accountability and Security in Africa
Teresa Abel of MIDRIFT HURINET is emerging as a rising voice in advancing youth-led approaches to peace and security across Africa. Teresa is currently based in South Africa as an exchange fellow through the Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation (NOREC) program, which helps young professionals gain international experience and expertise in sustainable development. She is […]
Dialogue Without Borders: Translating Kenya’s Community Peace Models into Tanzania’s Youth-Led Change
In the spirit of cross-cultural learning and youth-led transformation, Angelina Yohana of Tanzania’s Children Education Society (CHESO), an exchange fellow under the Young African Leaders Exchange Program by the Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation (Norec), immersed herself in Kenya’s dynamic model of community dialogue.
Through MIDRIFT HURINET’s peace and security forums, she witnessed how structured engagement between youth, security actors, and community leaders can dismantle mistrust, foster accountability, and inspire collaborative problem-solving
Cross-Border Lessons in Dialogue: Ugandan Youth Leader Finds Kenya’s Participatory Education Theatre (PET) a Classroom for Accountability
In the vibrant intersection of art, advocacy, and accountability, Participatory Education Theatre (PET) has emerged as a dynamic tool for transforming communities from within, one performance at a time. For Timothy Namitego, an exchange fellow from Uganda’s Justice Access Point under the Young African Leaders Exchange Program supported by the Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation […]
ECCES
KENYA ELECTORAL CONFLICTS MITIGATION & CIVIC/VOTER EDUCATION SUPPORT (ECCES) PROGRAM (ECCES) Program is a USAID-funded program implemented by MIDRIFT HURINET in partnership with Act Change Transform (Act!) in Nakuru County under a project name Kura Ya Amani, Sote Tuhusike. The cardinal lesson from USAID and other donors’ support to Kenyan elections in the 2013-2017 electoral cycle […]
Youth Empowerment and Engagement
Youth-led peace, social cohesion, and mental wellness through sports (Playmakers Programme-GAME) Overall objective. The overall objective of the project is to contribute to youth in local underserved communities being less prone to participate in crime and violent acts, and for the overall frequency of youth inflicted crime, drugs, and substance abuse) to drop in the targeted […]
RPS
RESILIENCE, PEACE & STABILITY PROGRAM (RPS) MIDRIFT HURINET in partnership with Act Change & Transform (ACT!) is implementing the Resilience Peace and Stability program in Nakuru and Baringo counties in Kenya. With support from Royal Danish Embassy, the program aims to decrease violent extremism, political and natural resource-based conflicts. The main objective of the program […]
REINVENT
Reducing Insecurity and Violent Extremism (REINVENT) This is a security intervention program funded and supported by the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) based in the United Kingdom and implemented by Tetra Tech International Development, Danish Demining Group (DDG) and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).This is a five-year program Project Objectives MIDRIFT HURINET has been implementing […]
ARIVE
Accelerated Response Initiative Against Violent Extremism: ARIVE In Nakuru County, there exists factors that increase vulnerability that terrorist can exploit to radicalize and recruit persons. Some of these factors includes; Unaddressed historical grievances, unresolved land disputes, high number of youths who are unemployed exacerbated by increased rural-urban migration to Nakuru urban areas, low police-citizen trust […]
Violence Prevention
Violence Prevention (IUVP) Programme-a Trust- And Relationship Building Programme. IUVP is founded on intersectoral approaches such as the Public Health Approach (PHA), the Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) and the Human Security Approach (HSA)). The focus is on creating coalitions of intersectoral leaders as agents of change, while also working on creating citizen agency for change. […]
MHPSS
VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND STRENGTHENING ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH & PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT Enhanced violence prevention mechanisms and strengthened access to community-based mental health and psychosocial support in Kenya. This project also aims to strengthen access to community-based mental health and psychosocial support in Kenya. It prioritizes building capacities for Community Health Promoters (CHPs), Community Health Extension Workers […]