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PEACE III PROGRAM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT SUSTAINING PEACE: Impacts, Approaches and Institutions PEACE III PROGRAM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Twitter: @USAID www.usaid.gov This annual report is dedicated to the memory of ALEX AMUNO Pact Inc. Kenya the Secretary of the Kaabong Twitter: @PactWorld Peace Ambassadors (KPAs) www.pactworld.org/country/kenya See page 29. Mercy Corps, Kenya Twitter: @mercycorps Acknowledgments www.mercycorps.org/countries/kenya This annual report was made possible by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Pact and Mercy Corps with leadership from Leslie F. Mitchell, Sarah Gibbons, Abdi Mohamed Abdi, Ubah Hassan Abdi, Sylvester Abara, Jacqueline Ndirangu, Josiah Mukoya and Martin Namasaka and many others. SOMALI CLUSTER CONTACT COUNTRY CONTACT Ubah Hassan Abdi Sarah Gibbons, Chief of Party We are grateful to our local partners: [email protected] PEACE III, Pact, Kenya Kiunga Youth Bunge Initiative (KYBI) • Agency for Peace and Specifically, we appreciate the following for [email protected] KARAMOJA CLUSTER CONTACT: Development (APD) • Wajir Peace and Development Agency their support: 1047 Braeside Gardens, Sylvester Abara Lavington, Nairobi, Kenya (WPDA) • Raia Development Initiative (RDI) • Mandera Rachel Elrom for copy editing, Stefan Peterson [email protected] District Peace Committee (MDPC) • Mandera Women for and Karen Wangari for offering their graphics Peace and Development (WFPD) • Inter Africa Group (IAG) • design and layout services. Network for Peace and Development (NEPED) • Strategies for Northern Development (SND) • St Peter’s Community DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this report are This Annual Report is made possible by the generous support of the American people Network (SAPCONE) • Peace and Development Center (PDC) those of the authors, and in no way entirely reflect through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). • Agency for Pastoralist Development (APaD) • Dodoth those of USAID, Pact or Mercy Corps. Agropastoralists Deveopment Organization (DADO) • The contents are the responsibility of Pact and Mercy Corps and do not necessarily reflect Matheniko Development Forum (MADEFO) • SIKOM Peace PHOTO CREDITS: Martin Namasaka, Susan Liebold, Network for Development (SIKOM). Dennis Koech, Ibrahim Ngele and Issa Mohammad the views of USAID or the United States Government. Hussein. PEACE III PROGRAM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT PREFACE ANNUAL REPORT Table of contents Key points ........................................................i key points Abbreviations and acronyms. .iii Foreword ........................................................iv Executive summary .............................................1 A Word on Integration: What We Know. 4 Introduction to PEACE III ......................................7 PEACE III Model of Change .....................................7 Geographic Focus ..............................................8 Context Analysis ...............................................12 Kenyan Elections Terror Attacks Ethiopia’s Internal Conflicts and Politics Climate Change Strengthened horizontal Overview of Qualitative Achievements ...................16 and vertical linkages within Social Reconciliation between Conflict-Affected Cross- and between local, national Border Communities .........................................18 Government Effectiveness in Peace and Security. 58 and regional cross border Increased community Significant Changes in Cross-Border Community ............ Support to National and County-Level Policy conflict management actors 1 engagement in processes Relationships .........................................19 Frameworks ...........................................60 that built social Dassenach-Turkana (PEACE III Zone 5) Government-Community Engagement ................63 Increased community reconciliation Dodoth-Turkana (PEACE III Zone 6) Inter-Governmental Collaboration .....................66 Gabra-Borana (PEACE III Zone 4) capacity to network and Chiefs Forum ..............................................67 4 Degodia-Garre (PEACE III Zone 4) Enabling Government Response to Conflict ..........69 engage collaboratively Increased capacity Frameworks of Cooperation ............................22 Learning and Ways Forward .............................72 to address cross-border and funding of Resource-Sharing Agreements PEACE III Partners as Strong, Well-Recognized, issues both horizontally consortium Peace Agreements 2 Networked Local Peace Actors .............................73 partners Trauma Healing ...........................................29 and vertically Organizational Sustainability ...........................74 Peace Dividends ..........................................32 5 Strategic Planning and Resource Mobilization Kobebe Dam Workshop Contributed to Hulugho Maternity Ward Strengthened local MERL/Communications Workshop Quf Dika Water Pan government capacity to positive resilience to Sustaining Impact ........................................75 Andarak Water Pan violent conflict Sustaining Program Learning and Approaches .......76 engage in and address … Suftu Community Hall s Learning and Ways Forward .............................79 cross border-conflict a Diff Kenya-Diff Somalia Access Road h Dobley Livestock Market Program Support to IGAD-CEWARN .......................80 alongside counterparts and 3 6 Culture as a Unifier .......................................36 Enhancing National CEWERUs’ Engagement in Local communities m a Peace Work Learning and Ways Forward .............................38 r Supporting Engagement across CEWERUs g Capacities and Networks of Local Peace Actors Strengthening Local EWER and Conflict Management o and Institutions ...............................................40 r Mechanisms p Women’s Empowerment .................................41 I Women’s Cross-Border Networking for Collaboration with Other U.S. Government-Funded I I Programs ............................................82 Peace and CVE E Strengthening Capacities Project Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, C Women Influencing for Change A and Learning ..................................................84 E Youth Empowerment ....................................46 Annual Performance .....................................84 P Empowering Youth Leaders PROJECT SUMMARY: Use of alternate assessment methodologies .........84 Security Official Forums Program Administration .................................87 Award No. AID 623-A-14-00004 primary objective: secondary objective: Changing the Lives of At-Risk Youth Performance Indicators .................................88 Start Date: 1 May, 2014 Customary Leaders, Elders, and Religious Leaders ..52 To strengthen localEnd Date: 31To April improve 2019 the responsiveness of Local Peace Structures ..................................53 Learning and Ways Forward .............................56 cross-border conflictReport Period: Octregional 1, 2017 – Sept and 30, 2018 national institutions management systemsTotal Award: $to 20,254,480 cross-border conflict i pactworld.org SUSTAINING PEACE: Impacts, Approaches and Institutions ii PEACE III PROGRAM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT Foreword As the Pact Kenya Country Director, it is with great pride and accomplishment that I present to you this annual report. It highlights many notable achievements by the PEACE III program and the continued progress in the pursuit of peace and security in the Horn of Africa. As you read the report, I hope you will gain insight into the breadth and depth of our work in cross-border conflict management. I pledge to continue the quest for greater knowledge, better programs and enhanced capacity in peacebuilding, along the borders of Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Abbreviations and acronyms Uganda. The accomplishments by PEACE III to date, and the work ahead depends on ADR Alternative Dispute Resolution MOU Memorandum of Understanding the support and contributions of our local partners and dedicated staff, who APaD Agency for Pastoralist Development MPR USAID-facilitated Mid-cycle Portfolio Review work in challenging contexts across the region. I am immensely grateful to APD Agency for Peace and Development MTIN Mandera Triangle Inter-Faith Network AS Al Shabaab NCTC National Counter Terrorism Center those individuals and partners whose energy and support sustain this work. As ASAL Arid and Semi-Arid Lands NEPED Network For Peace and Development importantly, I would like to thank and appreciate the generous support of the Leslie F. Mitchell BMC Border Management Committee NGO Non-Governmental Organization American people through the United States Agency for International Development Country Director BMS Border Management Secretariat NIWETU Niwajibu Wetu Program (USAID), who makes this work possible. CAP County Action Plan NPR National Police Reservist CBO Community-Based Organization NRM Natural Resource Management CD Capacity Development NSC National Steering Committee for Conflict CEWARN Conflict Early Warning and Response Management and Peace Building Mechanism OH Outcome Harvesting PEACE III is rooted in an ideal: to contribute to stability in the Horn of Africa CEWERU Conflict Early Warning and Early Response OLF Oromo Liberation Front Unit ONA Organizational Network Analysis by strengthening the local cross-border conflict management systems and CVE Countering Violent Extremism OPI Organizational Performance Index improving the responsiveness