With support from GIZ/CPS, CEEC organized an exchange visit by elders from Murang’a to Burnt Forest as part of the project “Working with community leaders in Burnt Forest to promote nonviolent, gender and ethnic inclusive communities” between 14th -18th March, 2016. 28 village elders from Ithiru and Githumu locations in Murang’a County visited their counterparts […]

Training of Trainers Between 2nd and 5th February 2016, CEEC held a Training of Trainers  under the project Working with community leaders in Burnt Forest to promote nonviolent, gender and ethnic inclusive communities.The project which started in 2014 is supported by GIZ(CPS) and it seeks to strengthen the community’s capacity to prevent and appropriately respond […]

Under the project titled,”Building the Capacity of Village Elders to Prevent and Appropriately Respond to Gender Based Violence”, CEEC with support from GIZ/CPS carried out a four days’ training of Murang’a Village Elders. 34 elders drawn from Githumu and Ithiru locations participated in the training which took place at Ng’araria Catholic Church, Kandara from 26th-29thJanuary 2016. […]

CEEC with support from DKA Austria, for the project “Positive Masculinities: Working with young men to combat gender based violence in Kikuyu Sub-County” held a four day training in Kikuyu town from 16th-19th November 2015 on gender concepts, gender based violence and  positive masculinities. The trainees were twenty seven (27) young men from Kinoo/ Uthiru, […]

As part of the Burnt Forest women income generating project, CEEC made contact with a women’s group called Sanata Women’s group which is based in Gilgil.One major similarity with the women in Burnt Forest is that Sanata women’s group comprises of women who were displaced by the 2007/8 post election violence and left destitute. The […]

One of the lessons that CEEC has learnt in the course of women’s empowerment work is that failure to engage men often leads to resistance and even backlash. It is in this regard that CEEC invited a group of male allies during the launch of a women’s Income Generating Activity (IGA) Project at PCEA Kamuyu, […]

CEEC recognizes that economic disempowerment of women is a major exacerbating factor in women’s rights violations and this is very true of Burnt Forest as well as other parts of Kenya and indeed the world over. This predicament is worsened by feminization of poverty which refers to a situation where women represent a disproportionate share […]

On 9th October 2015, CEEC carried out a needs assessment at Kamuyu PCEA Church, Burnt Forest to explore further capacity building needs in the context of gender based violence prevention and response. The exercise was informed by an expressed need for enhanced capacity and community GBV prevention and response structures. The participants were representatives from […]

CEEC with support from CPS/GIZ carried out a four days’ gender based violence prevention and response training for Tarakwa village elders from 5th – 8th October, 2015 at Deliverance Church Burnt Forest. This was under the project titled,” Building the capacity of village elders to prevent and appropriately respond to gender based violence”.During the training […]

On the 27th Of March 2015, CEEC carried out an evaluation of theBuilding the Capacity of Village Elders in Burnt Forest to Prevent and Appropriately Respond to Gender Based Violence project. The evaluation meeting took place at Kamuyu PCEA church and the village elders got an opportunity to share their experiences of how the project […]