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Disseminating The Draft Constitution In Rift Valley

Through the National Youth Forum, Smart Citizens participated in a month's process of the dissemination of the draft constitution to the youth in Rift valley. Particular areas where the draft was disseminated were Nakuru, Eldoret and Bomet. Rift Valley Province is one of Kenya's seven administrative provinces outside ...

Saving Mau Forest

Mau is a forest complex in the Rift Valley province of Kenya. It is the largest indigenous montane forest in East Africa. The Mau Forest complex has an area of 273,300 hectares (675,000 acres) and has some of the highest rainfall rates in Kenya. Mau Forest is the largest water catchment area in Kenya among the 5 ...

Learning Forum In Kitui

A learning forum was organized by mamamwiki links a network organization very active in Eastern Province. The forum brought together representatives from 16 constituencies in Eastern Province. The aim of the forum was to have participants go through the proposed constitution,compare with the current one so as to enable them be ...

Brookhouse Public Forum On Reforms

The forum held at the schools amphitheatre brought together students from various schools in Nairobi. The meeting was graced by Comm. Hassan Omar Hassan of KNCHR, Joy Mboya of GoDown arts centre, Mr Kennedy Hongo of Normative solutions representing Prof PLO Lumumba. The aim of the forum was share the reform agenda with the ...

Citizens For Reforms

The meeting was held at St Marys social hall bomet. It brought together 60 representatives from transmara chepalungu and narok south. The intention of the meeting was to lay strategies on how to hold members of parliament from the represented constituencies accountable to agenda 4 reforms. The participants were taken through ...

Kenya Ni Wajibu Wangu

The reforms roadshow was held during the months of March and April in areas that were hit by the 2007/2008 post election violence. The aim of the roadshow was to break down the reform message for Kenyans in a language they could relate to. It was done with the understanding that majority of Kenyans are not familiar with ...

Amkeni Wakenya

SmartCitizens and The PLO Lumumba Foundation have partnered to conduct civic education in Bomet, Transmara, Chepalungu and Narok South constituencies. The activities under this programme will run for six months

Advocacy And Institutional Support For The Successful Implementation Of The Forests Act 2005

Forest Action Network, in collaboration with SmartCitizens, National Alliance of Community Forest Associations and Resource Conflict Institute has launched an 18 month project on Advocacy and Institutional Support for the Successful Implementation of the Forests Act 2005.

Youth Training And Consultative Meetings On Reform Process

Youth of Transmara, Chepalungu and Narok South have been trained to work within their communities and disseminate information on the necessity and pace of reforms and youth voices on the reform agenda. These trainers were selected by the youth groups to which they belong in their respective areas.

Transmara Peace Initiative

SmartCitizens is working with the Provincial Administration, the District Peace Committee and community representatives on a peace caravan in Transmara. The area is prone to eruptions of inter-ethnic violence around cattle theft, natural resources and inequitable distribution of public resources.

National Assessment For The Annual Learning Assessment Report

Uwezo Kenya has partnered with SmartCitizens to cover Bomet and Chepalungu districts in the National Assessment for the Annual Learning Assessment Report. SmartCitizens will coordinate the project in the mentioned districts, whose ultimate goal is to improve the quality of education.

Task Force On Devolved Government

SmartCitizens in preparation for presentation to the task force on reforms held focused group discussions with several groups in Bomet County.The groups included youth, professionals,and business community.

Reforms Clubs

SmartCitizens has rolled out reforms clubs in 20 high schools in the south rift

A Study On The Level Of Understanding Of Devolved Government

SmartCitizens a National Non Governmental Organization with its field progamme office in Bomet town intends to gauge the level of community's understanding on the devolved government by carrying out a rapid assessment study targeting Bomet County. The study which aims at reaching a target 500 sample study who are residents of ...

Findings Of The Study On The Level Of Understanding Of Devolved Government

The government through the deputy prime minister's office and minister for local government formed a taskforce to collect views from people of Kenya on the management of the devolved government.

Demystifying The "hague"

InformAction an non-profit media company with a focus on social Justice has partnered with SmartCitizens to provide civic education on the International Criminal court process commonly known as the Hague

Transmara: Which Way Forward For Peace??

In a bid to find out the causes of conflict and come up with home-grown solutions SmartCitizens has carried out forums in Trans Mara East and Trans Mara West where opinion leaders and community members attended.

Role Of Reform Clubs

SmartCitizens is passionate about nurturing the youth and helping them make positive contributions to the society. With this in mind, SmartCitizens has developed reforms clubs in various Secondary schools .The sole purpose of the clubs is to be able to expose the youth to real life challenges that exist in the society.

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