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Peace Building, Governance and Advocacy

Strategic Objective: Strengthen sustainable and strategic peace building structures, advocacy and governance in the Horn of Africa

Peacebuilding, governance, and advocacy are essential components in creating stable and sustainable societies. Peacebuilding focuses on promoting long-term peace by addressing the root causes of conflict, fostering dialogue, and supporting reconciliation efforts within communities. Effective governance ensures that institutions are transparent, accountable, and responsive to the needs of the population, helping to restore trust and stability. Advocacy plays a key role in raising awareness, influencing policies, and mobilizing support for vulnerable groups, ensuring that their rights and needs are recognized and addressed. Together, these elements work synergistically to promote social cohesion, strengthen democratic institutions, and create a more just and peaceful society.

Outcomes:

  • Increase collaboration between the community and security agencies
  • Strengthen capacity of community structures for enhance peace and cohesion
  • Reduced incidents of conflict among communities
  • Reduced susceptibility of youth to violent extremists
  • Increased citizen participation in governance and policy development
  • Increased use of evidence for policy development, accountable actions and advocacy

OSDA integrates and accelerates innovative ideas and approaches to peace and security. We encourage inventive and collaborative programming that strengthens peacebuilding practice. We broaden the boundaries of traditional peacebuilding, and pioneer new connections across sectors in related fields. Across our work, we build strong links with key stakeholders in the policy, academic, media, arts, business, government and non-governmental circles.

Strategy

  • Strengthen governance through community mobilization, civic awareness and education.
  • Strengthen data generation, analysis and use for policy, reviews and advocacy
  • Nurture local community through innovative peace building, advocacy and governance such as women forms, peace clubs in schools, peace champions, sports for change and youth civic engagement.
  • Strengthen peace building structures at community, county and cross border in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
  • Strengthen community and security collaboration through coordination meetings, dialogue and feedback mechanisms
  • Build capacity of communities with focus on youth with skills and knowledge to prevent and counter violent extremism through counter narrative ideologists
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