Act! held the Embassy of Denmark in Kenya and Somalia-funded Resilience Peace and Stability (RPS) programme quarterly coordination meeting in Nakuru on the 15th to 17th March 2022 and brought together the RPS programme implementing partners to review the progress made so far and learn from each other. The programme focuses on three (3) dimensions of conflict: political violence, resource-based violence, and violent extremism and is implemented by Sixteen (16) civil society organizations based or working in West Pokot, Garissa, Isiolo, Samburu, Baringo, Nakuru, Mombasa, Kwale, Kilifi, Lamu, Mandera, Bungoma, Meru, Kisumu and Nairobi Counties.
Programme quarterly coordination meetings are part of Act!’s capacity development efforts aimed at enhancing the skills and capacities of partner organizations to enable them effectively realize their programming objectives and meet the desired needs of the target communities. The RPS programmatic approach prioritizes interventions that will contribute to address the roots and drivers of conflict and insecurity. The partner organizations working towards the stated overall objective of decreasing violent extremism, political and natural resource-based conflicts in Kenya- enthusiastically attended the coordination meeting and shared their implementation experiences in the last quarter.
“It is only by leveraging on each other’s strengths that we will effectively achieve our goals,” said Bonventure Chengeck, the RPS Program Manager during the meeting.
The 2-day event saw partner organizations share successes of their various programmatic initiatives which seek to build the capacity of communities to address emerging conflicts and forestall violence, improve collaboration between CSOs and government agencies in addressing conflicts and violent extremism as well as increasing the leadership role of women in peace and security activities.
The quarterly meeting, in addition to the peer-to-peer learning and mentorship session also had a bias towards programme visibility and social media communication. Act!’s communication department took time to recognize the partner organizations communicating effectively as well as sharing best practices and building the capacity of the partners present.
