Our objective is to establish mechanisms for violence prevention in our society.Our aim of intervention is to:-
Creating the basic conditions for a collective action .
We aim to rebuild community trust
Focus on building better relationships between state institutions, especially police, and the communities they serve.
Address trends towards extra-legal, private security solutions
Address the relationships among different forms of violence
Improvements in data collection and mechanisms
ACTIVITIES WE HAVE EARMARKED ON
7 radio programs to reach the general public and particularly political leaders; youth; women; elders to promote messaging towards ensuring a peaceful co-existence.
14 radio programs to reach the general public with a view of promoting public knowledge on: violence; reporting of violence; normalized violence and how to challenge it – Radio Amani has daily listenership of over 0.5 million
150 council of elders reached to influence the need for a peaceful elections
40 journalists trained on conflict sensitive media reporting
Student forums targeting -Primary schools; secondary schools and colleges/universities.
CPC strengthening; Community Policing Forums
20 police officers capacity build and mentored on customer care relations and sensitized on the customer service charter
Violence Observatory – for evidence based violence prevention
MECHANISMS FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION
We set up mechanisms for violence prevention in schools:-
County commissioners and their deputies new role to coordinate national government functions at County level
The target group are students, Deputy County Commissioner’s, Police, teachers, Parents Teachers Association (PTA), community leaders, and Community Policing Committee (CPC).
Involves holding student-police forums to promote trust building and relationship between the students and the police, forms of normalized violence as well as challenging culture of violence continually identified.
The activities are aimed at building trust between students, teachers and the police in preventing violence.
Holding student-police forums to promote trust building and relationship between the students and the police, forms of normalized violence as well as challenging culture of violence continually identified.
