Skills for peace initiative project

Skills for Peace Initiative Project was a USAID-Kenya Funded Project aimed at promoting peace building initiatives and employment creation initiatives among the youth to reach out to others youth within the informal settlements of Nairobi namely Mathare, Huruma, Kariobangi and Korogocho.

The Project was intended to directly target  youths and some youths among them as peer educators within four Slum villages of Nairobi, and the youth were to reach out to other final indirect beneficiaries through the community forums.

Youth attending a community peace bulding forum in Huruma.

With the above, the project realized, that some peer educators were empowered their beneficiaries and a large number of indirect beneficiaries were also reached within the slum villages. Members of staff capacities were built on areas of conflict mitigation and peace building and some area youth for peace groups were established in Huruma, Mathare North, 3KD comprising Kayole, Kariobangi, Korogocho and Dandora and 3MK comprising Mathare, Mabatini, Mradi and Kosovo. Finally, community capacities were strengthened through the community forums on peace building, democratic governance, human rights, on going national reforms, leadership, entrepreneurship, community mobilization, organization and facilitation.

This is what unvailed after the end of the project.
The Program supported the SPI beneficiaries into initiating and strengthening four area youth for peace groups. The groups were geared to reinforce the knowledge and skills on peace building, democratic governance, Human rights, on going national reforms, leadership, entrepreneurship, community mobilization, organization and facilitation. The four regions were consolidated as follows:

1. Huruma
2. Mathare North,
3. Kayole, Kariobangi, Korogocho and Dandora.
4. Mathare, Mabatini, Mradi and Kosovo.