Peace II

Name: PEACE II (Peace in Central and East Africa)
Donor/s: USAID
Duration: October 1, 2007 – September 30, 2010

The PEACE II program is a regional cross-border peace building program aimed at enhancing security and deepening local capacity for defusing potential violence conflict in the Horn of Africa. In particular the program seeks to further improve the ability of communities and community-based organizations to respond to conflict by strengthening the linkages between those communities and the wider civil society and government at local and regional levels in the border areas of this region, where it is acknowledged there is weak local government capacity.

The program will build upon previous USAID/EA conflict programs by focusing on communities composed largely of culturally and ethnically different nomadic and pastoralist populations that move across porous national borders in two priority focus areas: 1) the Somali Cluster (Kenya/Somalia/Ethiopia tri-border area, aka Mandera Triangle); and 2) the Karamoja Cluster (Kenya/Uganda/Sudan/ Ethiopia borders). The PEACE II program will strengthen the capacity of local bodies (peace committees and others) to effectively and sustainably engage in conflict mitigation and peace building by engaging the government on security issues, developing and supporting more democratic processes, and improving citizen participation and oversight in order to more positively influence cross-border stability.

Partner/s
Pact Kenya, Practical Action
http://www.kcssp.org/index.html

Staff contacts
Ms. Angi Yoder-Maina.  angi.maina@pactke.org
Kipp Efinger, Program Officer, Washington, DC, kefiinger@pacthq.org