Community Education and Empowerment Centre

On 15th December, CEEC brought together representatives of the trainees from the five ward of Kikuyu, Sigona, Nachu, Kinoo and Karai in Kikuyu Sub County for an evaluation meeting. During the meeting, the youth shared their success stories, challenges, lessons learnt and recommendations. It was very gratifying to hear the youth share their own stories […]

This project is being implemented with the support of GIZ (CPS) and it started with a Needs Assessment which was conducted by CEEC in July 2014 in Burnt Forest. Following the findings from the Needs Assessment, CEEC conducted two trainings in November 2014 which aimed at building the capacity of both men and women to […]

CEEC has been working with youth from Nairobi County since October 2013 under the project Youth and Devolved Governance which is being supported by Heinrich Boll Stiftung, East and Horn of Africa. Under the project, an online platform Sauti Mtaani was set up to facilitate civic engagement between youth and their respective Members of County […]

On 27th November 2013, and with the support of  Heinrich Boll Stiftung, East and Horn of Africa, CEEC launched two e-participation platforms under the name   “Sauti Mtaani”   to facilitate engagement between youth and their Members of County Assembly (MCAs). These were an sms platform and a Facebook application. Drawing from lessons learnt in the […]

Under the Women and Civic engagement project, CEEC supported women from the six wards of Kagundu-ini, Gaichanjiru, Muruka, Nga’raria, Ruchu and Ithiru in Kandara Sub County to organize forums in their respective wards in March 2014. Members of County Assembly (MCAs) from the six wards attended the forums and responded to issues and concerns raised […]

Between 28th July and 1st August 2014, CEEC carried out a Needs Assessment in eight farms within Burnt Forest namely, Lingway, Kamuyu, Rukuini, Rironi/Kaplalach, Ndungulu, Chuiyat, Barekeiywo and Kagongo. The exercise was informed by a request by the women from the eight farms for an empowerment project and the objectives were; To identify the most […]

Between 14th and 17th July 2014 CEEC trained 27 male youth from Kikuyu Sub County on Positive Masculinities with a view to building their capacity to combat gender based violence. The training was informed by the high incidence of gender based violence within the sub county with men being the main perpetrators. Evolving social and […]

CEEC has been working with women and MCAs from Kandara Sub County in Murang’a County on a Women and Devolved Governance Project supported by GIZ (CPS) which aims at promoting women’s participation in devolved governance. In February and March respectively the women and the MCAs were trained on devolved governance, transformative leadership and women’s participation in […]

As a follow up of the training of women from Kandara Sub County on devolved governance that took place in February 2014, CEEC trained seven MCAs from the same Sub County (five out of the elected six and two nominated women MCAs) in March 2014. The training which took place under the “Women and Devolved […]

Kenya promulgated a new Constitution in August 2010 which among other things provides for a devolved system of governance which system was ushered in by the March 2013 General Elections. This system of governance is supposed to bring governance closer to the people and enhance participation of all population groups including women and youth. However, […]