Re-enforcing Sustainable Peace Structures in communities (7 MONTHS PHASE OUT) Amani People’s Theatre (APT) has been a partner of CAFOD for over 15years and has largely implemented projects geared towards addressing tribal conflicts among the rural and urban poor.  The last of such project was implemented by APT in response to the peace challenges towards, during and after the general elections in Kenya in March 2013.  With the support of CAFOD, APT implemented a project titled “Building Sustainable Structures for Conflict Transformation and Peace building amongst communities” which incorporated community dialogue and use of theatre as a tool for preaching peace which recorded commendable results in reducing incidences of violent conflicts among communities in Kibera (Nairobi county), Kondole (Kisumu county) and Kinondoni and Marereni (Kwale county). In the CAFOD EA’s transition to the new strategy and also in view of reducing resources, APT is one of the partners earmarked for phase out. This project has be designed as an exit plan to enable communities that have depended on CAFOD funding through APT to  be able to carry on with the gains made in a sustainable manner and also enable APT undertake institutional capacity strengthening so as to be in a position to fundraise and support the interventions beyond CAFOD’s exit. 
This project is a 7 months  project that has been designed with wide consultation between APT and the beneficiaries and has the following components:
1. Institutional strengthening: This will be done through strategic review process which will bring together key stakeholders to develop a new strategic plan to succeed the current strategic plan which is expiring at the end of 2014. APT will depend on its own internal resources and a team of professional volunteers and community members to shape up the new strategic plan. It is hoped that this will give APT a focused approach to its interventions and a cutting edge in seeking funds from potential donors. APT will further undertake internal staff capacity enhancement and documentation of project results to highlight its successes not only for CAFOD but also for other donors.
2. Community level exit strategy: APT aims at promoting sustainability of the outcomes of the previous intervention enhancement of the capacity of the community,  re-energizing and refreshing the their change agents in peace building by follow-up training of 60 Community Based Animators and 50 Peace Marshals so that they have increased capacity to facilitate conflict transformation, peace building and governance interventions. The focus will be on Community Animators and Peace Marshals who have already been trained by APT. Training of Trainers workshops will be conducted. Further three Dialogue Forums where members of the community come together to discuss – through a carefully crafted artistic process using forum theatre, image theatre and playback theatre – will be organized in Communities. These activities will be carried out  Kibera (Nairobi county), Kondole (Kisumu county) and Kinondoni and Marereni (Kwale county) 
3. Peace Marshal Outreach sessions for 50 youth in and 50 out of school will also be conducted. In particular, schools will be challenged to come up with creative but sustainable forums where issues pertinent to conflict transformation, peace building and governance will be discussed. 10 Teachers in the selected schools will be invited to join the Training of Animators so that they may acquire skills to enable them  mentor and lead the school initiatives that they will be encouraged to form and sustain. The target schools are (2 secondary schools– Kisumu Boys and Eutychus High School)
The amount allocated for this phase out is 20,000GBP for the 7 months of the project.