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Institutionalising Comprehensive Police Reforms in Kenya: Towards equitable, responsive and accountable policing in Kenya This project aims to ensure that broader reforms within the security sector in general, and within the National Police Service in particular, lead to improved service delivery; professionalism; accountability; and ability to address the security needs of Kenyans. We are working in and among 13 communities in Kenya across seven counties. The focus of this work is at the national as well as local level. We are working to ensure that the National Police Service Standing Orders and Regulations, currently being developed by the Inspector General’s Office, include key guidelines on accountability and professionalism among police officers. This includes the use of force and firearms, community policing implementation, and human rights – feeding in key technical expertise to those drafting the regulations.
Amplifying Youth Voices in Yemen's Transition In this project we supported young women and men in Yemen to ensure their voices were heard by policy makers during the transition period. The project had three main components: research into young people’s perceptions and priorities for Yemen’s political transition, which informed evidence-based advocacy; strengthening the advocacy skills of select youth leaders and helping them develop stronger, more inclusive networks across Yemen; and building constructive relationships between youth leaders and Yemeni decision-makers so that young people could bring their concerns, insight and experiences to bear on political decisions.
Galvanising responses by state and NSA to peace and security challenges in Kenya This project seeks to build strategic coordination among key actors in conflict management and to revitalise sustainable and continuous engagement to enable them to anticipate, plan and respond to conflict and insecurity in a structured and systematic manner. This is particularly crucial as the country moves towards the general elections in 2017, given that elections have been a trigger for ethnic violence in the past and are likely to exacerbate existing tensions around boundaries, ethnic polarisation, extractives and violent extremism.
Youth and National Dialogue Outcomes: Agents for Change at the Local Level The overall objective of the action is to empower civil society actors to promote more inclusive, equitable and democratic political processes in Yemen that respect and protect human rights. The specific objective of the action is to strengthen the capacity of youth actors and initiatives to advocate for and monitor the implementation of National Dialogue Conference outcomes at a local and governorate level.
Strengthening community security and prevention of violence against women in Tajikistan The project is designed to contribute to the reduction of domestic violence (DV) against women and girls in three target districts of Tajikistan by: (a) strengthening the identification of, and response to, DV cases (through supporting the coordination and monitoring of police reform processes; bolstering community policing and the capacity of community policing partnership teams (CPPTs); providing conflict and gender sensitivity training to the police, CPPTs and gender-based violence (GBV) service providers; raising awareness on DV and GBV at community levels; and increasing access to GBV services through referral mechanisms) and (b) enabling CPPTs and communities to identify, challenge and address harmful gender norms, behaviours and relationships that perpetuate gender inequality and violence (through participatory conflict and gender analysis (including using Saferworld’s Gender Analysis of Conflict Tookit), gender transformative workshops, and the development and implementation of action plans, resourced through small grants, to challenge, advocate against and address harmful gender norms and behaviours).
Community Security and Peace Programme The overall goal of this 36-month Community Security and Peace Programme is to contribute to more peaceful, secure, and resilient communities in South Sudan.
Strengthening Inclusive Development and Equal Access to Resources for Marginalised Citizens in Uganda The overall aim of this project is to contribute to greater inclusion and more equitable access to resources and benefits of development, and realisation of natural resource rights for poor and marginalised youth, women and men in Uganda. The focus of the project is exclusively sub-Saharan Africa (Uganda) which aligns with Irish Aid’s geographic focus. Saferworld and RICE-WN will scale-up the participation of poor and marginalised people in decision-making relating to natural resource access, use, control and ownership, because their exclusion is a key driver of conflict in Northern Uganda. In three districts, Saferworld will use its conflict-sensitive and rights-based approach to challenge social and gender norms that perpetuate violence and inequality; empower people to raise their concerns collectively with district authorities and private sector investors; monitor the inclusion of their priorities; and hold decision makers to account. The violation of rights will be documented at the household level to improve access to justice and support active engagement.
Promoting a sustainable and locally-led community policing program in the Kyrgyz Republic This project aims to build sustainable support and cooperation between citizens and security providers, so that the community policing approach is being successfully implemented by CPPTs, based on multi-year, strategic LCPC plans, and is institutionalized in local and national government agendas.
Gender-sensitive community security and conflict prevention in the Ferghana Valley Saferworld has been supporting civil society organisations in southern Kyrgyzstan and northern Tajikistan to put conflict and gender-sensitive approaches into practice in their work since 2010. We provide training, consultancy and mentoring on conflict sensitivity, conflict analysis and security sector reform, building the capacity of local civil society within Central Asia.
Building Constituencies for Peaceful Change Reduced violence and improved physical security / freedom from fear
Women's Empowerment and Social Cohesion in Cox's Bazar This proposal outlines a holistic intervention to address intra- and inter-communal conflict dynamics within and between the Rohingya refugee communities and host communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. It does so in a manner which is intended to contribute to women’s safety and empowerment, by increasing women’s access to services within the camps as well as harnessing the potential of peer-to-peer support within and outside the camps.
Towards Peaceful and Secure 2012 Presidential Elections in Kenya Ahead of the March 2013 elections, Saferworld worked with key peace, security and election management actors across Kenya to strengthen preparedness and coordination in support of peaceful, free and fair national polls. We are also continuing to work with grassroots peace actors in six potential hotspots to build resilience to conflict, promote peacebuilding and strengthen the capacity of community members to hold their leaders to account, including on issues of governance, security and service delivery.
Promoting a sustainable and locally-led community based policing in the Kyrgyz Republic The purpose of this award is to build sustainable support and cooperation between citizens and security providers, so that the community policing approach is being successfully implemented by Community Policing Partnership Teams (CPPT), based on multi-year, strategic Local Crime Prevention Center’s (LCPC) plans, and is institutionalized in local and national governments’ agendas.
Citizen Narrative Campaign The proposed project includes building relationships with communities, through conducting community security assessments to understand community’s primary concerns and fears of violence, and engaging in dialogues with them about their concerns about violent groups and people joining them. These initiatives will include conducting outreach and awareness raising campaigns regarding the harmful impact of violent groups and the positive role youth play in driving peace. Overall goal: 1) Increase understanding of the underlying drivers of insecurity and violence, including those that contribute to recruitment into or support for violent groups; 2) address these causes through cross-sectoral working groups ; and conduct outreach and strategic messaging campaigns, dialogue, and lesson learning with the aim of changing attitudes and behaviours of target audiences.
Improving Community Small Arms Light Weapons and Ammunition Control The primary objective of this project is to ‘enhance community-based solutions to threats posed by SALW to improve safety and security in selected locations in South Sudan’.
Capacities for Peace - Learning and Evaluation Saferworld and Conciliation Resources are currently implementing an EU-funded project called Capacities for Peace (C4P), which aims to strengthen local actors capacity in early warning and early response. The C4P project, which runs from 01 September 2013 to 29 February 2016 and covers 32 contexts across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, provides an unique opportunity to extract and share lessons on: 1) early warning and response processes and their peacebuilding purpose, 2) the role and added value of CSOs in early warning and response, and 3) how best to build CSOs capacity to effectively undertake these roles. Such a learning process will benefit international actors policies and practice in the field of early warning, and contribute to enhancing the knowledge and standards of the peacebuilding sector.
Community-based approaches to security in conflict-prone areas of the Caucasus In this project we have established community-safety networks in very different contexts – along the divide between Shida Kartli and South Ossetia, within South Ossetia itself and in the eastern part of Abkhazia. In each context, we map community security needs, identify priorities and plan solutions together with members of the community. We have established community-led mechanisms to map trends in perceptions of security and to provide early warning of likely increases in tensions. In the latest phase of our project we have also focused on bringing together community representatives with government representatives and local authorities, giving people a voice to air their problems and building relationships.
Tackling the illicit transfer and diversion of proliferation-sensitive goods and technologies: supporting government outreach and encouraging a culture of compliance among industry To enhance capacities of countries in Asia, including member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to prevent the illicit trade and diversion of WMD-related materials and conventional arms.
Improving community-based justice in mixed and KNU-controlled areas To promote good governance, rule of law, and access to effective justice in Karen villages in mixed- and KNU-controlled areas by strengthening KNU justice provision and communities/individuals’ confidence and skills to engage with authorities and justice providers in order to seek resolution for their cases and/or to advocate for improved justice provision.
Strengthening Community Security and Security Sector Governance in Myanmar The aim of the project is to help build safer lives for communities in Karen, while contributing to the development of a security sector that is more responsive to the needs of communities in Myanmar.
Strengthening Community Security and Security Sector Reform/Governance in Myanmar The project will contribute to a reduction in violence and insecurity at the local and sub-national levels in Myanmar, while also contributing to the transformation of the way security is understood, delivered and experienced in order to improve people’s safety, security and well-being. This three-year project will begin by consolidating Saferworld's experience and lessons learnt from the last three years of programming and deepening our engagement in Karen and Mon areas of south east Myanmar, during year one of the project. We will then extend the programme into Shan and Kachin states in years two and three of the project.
Linking Preparedness, Response and Resilience in Emergency Contexts This proposal seeks to promote resilient humanitarian responses. It has a focus at the community level. The project has two strands, both associated with new ways of strengthening community resilience. The first strand will study a range of recent humanitarian responses and develop an approach for designing humanitarian responses that maximises the long-term resilience of beneficiary communities. The project will then test this new approach in a future humanitarian response. Secondly, the project will bring together humanitarian and security agencies to combine their best existing methodologies for security and resilience to develop new approaches for resilience programming in fragile contexts. The new approaches will be developed and piloted in close consultation with local partners and country teams.
Strengthening civic engagement of young women and men in Kyrgyzstan to prevent recruitment into violent and criminal groups, and address local security concerns Building on Saferworld and Foundation for Tolerance International’s (FTI’s) existing work on strengthening community security in Kyrgyzstan, the proposed project would expand our engagement with young women and men in Batken, Chui, Osh and Jalal-Abad provinces. Through a range of trainings, experience exchange workshops, smalls-grants and outreach at the national, sub-national and local levels, the project will provide spaces for young men and women – from both rural and urban areas – to come together and discuss the issues that affect them (such as civic identity, gender equality, family pressures, trafficking in persons, violence in schools, and recruitment into violent or criminal groups). This will lead to their greater civic engagement and joint activism to demand for young people’s concerns to be addressed. The project will provide the means for young women and men to identify their priorities locally and to come up with solutions that provide positive avenues for positive self-expression, which will reduce their involvement in violent or criminal groups that undermine peace and stability.
“Not worth a penny” – Preventing extra-judicial killings of urban poor in Nairobi’s settlements The proposed action addresses extra-judicial killings (EJKs) and increases respect of (inter)national Human Rights (HR) standards by law enforcement through strengthening the capacities of the two stakeholder groups that are, and should be, the first line of support for victims and their relatives: grassroots human rights defenders (GHRDs) and police.
Promoting participatory approaches to peacebuilding in KP and FATA of Pakistan This is a three year programme to promote and develop participatory peacebuilding initiatives in KP and FATA. We are supporting civil society organisations in the region to gain the skills and confidence needed to ensure that decision-makers understand and act on local security needs and that communities and marginalised groups are consulted in national and international peace efforts. We deliver trainings for CSOs aimed at developing practical skills and theoretical knowledge of peacebuilding on the following issues: participatory conflict analysis; conflict sensitivity; mediation, dialogue, negotiation and peacebuilding; advocacy for conflict transformation; understanding and measuring change; and community-driven initiatives for peace.
Strengthening women's public voice in Egypt, Libya and Yemen In 2012, Saferworld began a regional project looking at how safety and security concerns in Egypt, Libya and Yemen impact women’s public participation. In the first phase of the project, we have conducted research with women activists with diverse backgrounds in each country to better understand the threats to their safety, how insecurity is preventing them from participating in decision-making, and how women are responding to these problems. Our work also seeks to support women from across the region to engage in policy dialogue on security issues, participate in political processes and form initiatives to address local security and safety concerns. We have formed a regional network of women activists called ‘Sawtana Kawatuna’ in order to facilitate dialogue and lesson-sharing between Egypt, Libya, Yemen and other MENA countries.
Integrating Conflict-Sensitivity in Land governance for conflict prevention and resolution This project aims to contribute to peaceful resolution of land related conflicts in Mbale Mukono and Mityana by 2016. The implementation of this project is dependent on match funding from Irish Aid.
Promoting Sustainable Pastoralism through Improved Rangeland Management Governance in Samburu County, Kenya The project intends to address the problem of weak natural resource management systems primarily in Samburu and Baringo counties, and overlapping into other counties that constitute the larger northern Kenya region, thereby contributing to sustainable natural resource utilisation, improved livelihoods and reduced conflict over scarce resources. The project will also engage with other frontier counties through their regional platforms, the Frontier Counties Development Council and the Amaya Triangle Initiative.
Strengthening Civil Society and Authorities to Advance Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in Uzbekistan Saferworld and partners will improve the overall ability of target groups (CSOs including those run shelters, and women-led CSOs working on gender and women’s rights, state-led rehabilitation centres, and government authorities) to more effectively deliver initiatives and services to improve gender equality and women’s rights in Uzbekistan
Promoting Collective Action in Electoral Early Warning and Response (PCA-EWER) The overall goal of the project is to reduce the potential for violence before, during and after the 2017 general elections through empowering state and non-state actors at national, county and community levels to respond effectively to the causes and incidences of violence.
Community initiatives for common understanding in Nepal The program brings together conflicting groups within communities, including male and female former combatants, through a people-to-people (P2P) approach to local development and community peacebuilding linked to existing dispute resolution mechanisms. By creating opportunities for structured interaction between conflicting groups around shared local concerns, the program supports the building of trust and more resilient social ties across divided communities.
Rising Powers and Conflict Management in Central Asia This project seeks to develop a more global perspective in conflict prevention and peacebuilding work by examining the implications of rising powers in conflicted and fragile countries.
Participatory Governance & Peace Programming in Somalia This project is a continuation of a long-standing body of work aiming to support civil society and non-state actors engage in policy dialogue with local authorities and the international community on priority peacebuilding, statebuilding and democratisation issues via three Non State Actor platforms.
Amplifying women’s voices on peace, security and justice in Karamoja The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the promotion of the rights of marginalised women and children for the realisation of inclusive peace, security and justice in conflict affected communities in the Karamoja region. The proposed action draws on more than 15 years of CECORE and Saferworld’s joint collaboration and institutional expertise in conflict resolution, peacebuilding and rights-based approaches in northern Uganda and the Karamoja region. The proposed action will be implemented in the sub-counties of Rupa Sub County in Moroto District, Karita Sub County in Amudat District, and Kalapata and Kaabong sub counties in Kaabong District. And the projected action’s target is 12,000 (7,000 females: 5,000 males) indirect beneficiaries.
Peace & Rights-Based Alternatives to Counter-Terror, Stabilisation and Statebuilding This project is looking to continue and build upon Saferworld's existing work on the theme of constructive alternatives to the predominant counter-terror narrative. It will do this through the use of policy research, dialogue, advocacy and communications that connect evidence, analysis and voices from affected contexts with the policy conversation in the US, UK, EU and UN. The long-term objective of this programme is that the US, and its key partners such as the UK and the EU, adopt more sustainable, less violent, more rights-focused responses to terrorism and instability that constructively address the root causes of violent conflict for the long term.
Improving conditions for reconstruction and development in Bangladesh, South Sudan and Yemen The aim of the project is to contribute to an improved environment for reconstruction and development in Bangladesh, South Sudan and Yemen. It sets out to do this by creating more active, informed and inclusive societies, and more effective and accountable institutions – in turn increasing public safety and security.;
Contributing to Poverty Reduction through Community Security and Peacebuilding Conflict-affected communities, formal and informal authorities, and civil society actors, collaboratively identify, prioritise, plan, and resolve conflict and insecurity issues, including women- and youth-specific concerns, build partnerships with other institutions committed to improving livelihoods, and bring their knowledge and expertise into dialogues on peace and security in the national arena.
Addressing conflict and violence in the post-2015 development framework The purpose of this project is to conduct research and support dialogue on the inclusion of conflict and violence issues in the post-2015 development framework, engaging a range of policy communities and actors, including rising powers and traditional donor countries, multilateral actors and other global stakeholders both at the country level and among decision makers in New York.
Community Policing Sustainment Tajikistan The project provides comprehensive assessments, capacity-building, training development, coordination, and delivery, mentoring, logistical support, event planning, and related services throughout Tajikistan in support of community security in areas such as community policing education, domestic violence response, gender equity, human rights, and radicalisation and violent extremism prevention programs
Supporting civil society to deliver inclusive, locally-led peacebuilding initiatives in the Ferghana Valley Saferworld and partners will empower civil society in the Fergana Valley to deliver inclusive, locally-led 
peacebuilding and violence prevention initiatives with cross-border and regional scope
Preventing Radicalization and Violent Extremism Leading to Terrorism through Cross-Border Community Policing in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan Together with our local partner, the Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI), we have been working on the project, Preventing radicalism and violent extremism through community policing in Kyrgyzstan. We are bringing together communities from different ethnicities and encouraging constructive co-operation on local security issues between residents, authorities and law enforcement agencies. From this experience we are developing practical, evidence-based policy recommendations to feed into wider debates on community security effectiveness, linking our community work with national policy changes.