The “Pro-Peace Kenya” is a project for the Promotion of Peace and Cohesion in Kenya by Preventing and Mitigating Electoral Conflicts, dubbed “Uchaguzi Bila Noma 2022”. The Project is funded by the European Union and implemented via a partnership between the European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES) and the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC).
NCIC is a Constitutional Commission mandated to promote national unity, equity and the elimination of all forms of ethnic discrimination by facilitating equality of opportunities, peaceful resolution of conflicts and respect for diversity among Kenyan communities.
ECES is an independent, non-partisan and not for profit Foundation established in 2010 that has implemented activities already in more than 50 countries, mainly, but not only, in Africa and the Middle East, primarily with funding from the EU and EU Member states. ECES and NCIC entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote joint activities for a peaceful electoral environment from 2021 to 2023. The resulting “Pro-Peace Kenya” Project supports the interventions of NCIC and aims at preventing election related conflict and violence in the general and presidential elections of 2022 and beyond. The Project builds on the various experiences of collaborating partners in working to promote peace and cohesion to prevent and mitigate conflicts and electoral related violence, as well as to build trust, inclusion, cohesion and political space, notably in view of supporting the “Road Map of Peaceful Elections 2022” published by NCIC.
Pro Peace Kenya has been financed by the European Union with 3.5million euro through the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP) and will be implemented by ECES in an 18 months time span.
It comprises of the following components, namely:
- Support to National Commission and Integration Commission (NCIC).
- Support to Independent and Election Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
- Support to Civil Society Organisations (CSOs).
- Support to Media.
The overall objective of “Pro-Peace Kenya” is to promote peace, cohesion and political dialogue and to prevent, mitigate and manage conflicts and political and election-related conflict and violence ahead of the new electoral cycle in Kenya.
The project is articulated through 4 main areas aiming to achieve the following specific objectives:
- Specific objective 1: To strengthen capacities of peace, cohesion and electoral stakeholders to prevent conflicts and electoral related violence at the local, county, and national levels.
- Specific objective 2: To Strengthen conflict resolution and peace infrastructures that effectively resolve conflicts and curb electoral related violence.
- Specific objective 3: To increase understanding, tolerance, trust, and peaceful co-existence among Kenyans.
- Specific objective 4: To Reduce incidences of electoral violence, hate speech, ethnic contempt in traditional and social media, and in public spaces.
Please visit our official website for the project: http://democracy-support.eu/kenya/