Peace Safety & Security
PEACE SAFETY & SECURITY
- 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.
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To promote knowledge on rights among students using the ‘101 Questions Booklets’