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USAID/EA officials visit CEWARN

Senior officials of USAID East Africa led by the Deputy Chief of Democracy, Governance and conflict Office Ms. Amy Hamelin held a meeting with CEWARN staff on 19 September 2016 at the CEWARN secretariat in Addis Ababa and reviewed progress of CEWARN’s peace building and conflict prevention activities at regional and national levels that are supported by USAID.

The meeting was opened by welcoming remarks of the CEWARN Director Mr. Camlus Omogo who briefed the USAID EA team on CEWARN’s current focus in rolling out the 2012-2019 Strategy Framework that expands CEWARN’s conflict early warning and response operations to fifteen priority conflict themes. CEWARN had a limited focus on cross border pastoral and related conflicts in the period between 2002-2012. He also provided update on ongoing training programmes for local information networks in Somalia, Sudan and Uganda that have been selected for piloting.


USAID/EA is one of CEWARN’s long-standing partners since its establishment in 2002.

Training of CEWARN's local information collection network in Sudan

CEWARN team concluded a training for a newly constituted local Information Collection Network  (ICN) in Sudan. The training was held on 26 – 29 September 2016 in Khartoum.

 21 members of the ICN representing Darfur States, West Kordofan, Kassala and Khartoum were taken through CEWARN’s new early warning data collection and analysis system.

 Sudan is the last of three IGAD Member States selected for piloting of CEWARN’s new early warning system with an expanded operational mandate beyond its prior sole focus on cross-border pastoral and related conflicts. Similar trainings have been held for Somalia and Ugandan ICN members earlier in the year.

 The training follows CEWARN’s expanded operational mandate that was adopted in September 2012 and the subsequent renovation of its conflict data collection and analysis system to serve as a more robust regional conflict early warning and response mechanism. The trainings are aimed at the piloting of the new system in Somalia, Sudan and Uganda through the end of the current year as well as a gradual full launch of the system in all IGAD Member States within 2017.

Partnerships for Peaceful General Elections in 2017 in Kenya

One of CEWARN’s key partner organisations the Nairobi chapter of  the Global Peace Foundation (GPF) held a stakeholders meeting on the 26th September 2016 in Nairobi to forge partnership with relevant organisations to ensure peaceful 2017 General Elections in Kenya.

The Director of CEWARN, Mr Camlus Omogo was part of this gathering with other representatives of institutions such as Brand Kenya Board, Kenya CEWERU, NCIC, EACC, Administration Police (implementing “Hallo Kenya” response initiative), National Counter Terrorism Centre, UNDP Kenya, UNEP, and Standard Group. Also present were head of EU delegation, Danish Ambassador, and representative from the US Embassy. 

During the meeting, Global Peace Foundation shared objectives and proposed activities to respond to any threat of destabilization in the country during the upcoming elections including activities aimed at empowering youth and women to advocate for their own rights and especially those from marginalized communities by building connections and engagement with local CSOs and county government. Some of the planned activities include: Regional Peace Workshops to provide civic education and Social Media Training, launching a Social Media campaign to train country based social media contributors, capacity building workshops for county based CSOs to mobilize youth and women to promote peaceful participation and a National Peace Forum involving women and Youth of Kenya s 8 regions with CSOs and county Government officials.

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