STRETCHERS YOUTH ORGANIZATION
2017 Human Rights and Good governance Annual Report
2017
BUILDING YOUTHS AND WOMEN CAPACITIES Table of Contents
Acronyms 2
Executive Summary 3
Acknowledgments 3
Introduction 4
Vision 4
Mission 4
Thematic Areas 4
Key Strategies 4
Core Values 4
Human Rights and Governance Program 5
Activities Conducted 5
Mass Voter Registration 5
Community Civic Education and Peace Campaigns 6
Election Report 9
General Achievements 10
Challenges 11
Conclusion 11
KIEMS Kenya Integrated Election Management System
MUHURI Muslims for Human Rights Acronyms MVR Mass Voter Registration BVR Biometric Voter Registration OCS Officer Commanding Station IEBC Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission OCPD Officer Commanding Police Division IEC Information Education and Communication distribute a total of 50 T-shirts, 208 copies of IEC materials on election message, 631
election guide material, 12 books on social Executive Summary policies, 15 books on civil society leadership and 19 books on breaking the barriers. In This a combined report of activities total, 935 IEC materials were distributed conducted during the period of January to under this thematic area withinthe year December 2017 under Human Rights and 2017. All these activities were conducted good governance program which is our within the six sub counties of Mombasa thematic area two. The report mainly County. focuses on issues around advocacy on peace, civic education, community outreaches/dialogues and youth forums and cafes. We managed to conduct three major mass voter registration campaigns, three communitypeace outreaches/dialogue, three youth café and Okong’o Dickson four civic education activities reaching a Executive Director total of 2334 direct beneficiaries. One graffiti Stretchers Youth Organization peace message art work was done at Changamwe social hall. We managed to
Acknowledgements PAWA 254
We take this opportunity to acknowledge Youth Alive! Kenya the following organizations for their National Coalition on Human Rights support to ensure that our Civic education defenders program met its objective during the year 2017. MUHURI
IEBC HAKI Africa
National Government Amnesty International
County Government County Governance Watch
Background of Stretchers Youth Organization Mission
Introduction Promoting health right and governance among youth and women by integrating Stretchers Youth Organization is a capacity building, advocacy and membership, Youth led community based information sharing and linkage to services organization that was founded in 2011 with for sustainable society the aim of raising dialogue through advocacy, community mobilization, capacity building, artistic expression and Thematic areas of the organization service linkage on reproductive health, human rights, good governance and skills Sexual reproductive health development among women and young education people at the coastal counties of Kenya. Human rights, peace and governance advocacy
Skills development and Vision entrepreneurship
A healthy society where every voice counts
rights organizations, and the government of our country Key Strategies Commitment to solidarity and Community Mobilization building alliances of grassroots beneficiary groups as taskforces. Awareness Rising Empower women and girls to Capacity Building advocate for their rights.
Lobbying and Advocacy Accountability, Transparency and Inclusivity Core Values Credits and acknowledges women’s Promoting Human Rights and contributions in achieving change. Equality
Work in partnership with international and national human
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Human rights and governance program decision-making processes. To establish responsive governance, Stretchers youth Human Rights & Good Governance organization is using various methods such program is the second thematic area of the as policy advocacy, the promotion of organization that aims at securing the women & youths rights, gender equity human and participatory rights of development and peace within the society vulnerable communities through in order to ensuring active participation of cooperation with cross-section people, the local communities in Mombasa. change agents both within civil societies and government institutions, and to influence the policy environment and registering new voters around 4-7 people a day. This was a poor turnout as mentioned Activities Conducted by the clerks. We had to start our activity by Below are the activities undertaken under 10 am to mobilize the community to human rights and good governance register; this was successfully done by the program? stretchers team. We managed to pull a total of 32 new voters in that same day. The
turnout really amazed the IEBC officials. Mass Voter Registration KIPEVU WARD (Jamnazi) 7th/02/2017 CHAANI WARD (Migadini Matangini) This was our last activity based on the MVR 25th/01/2017 2 out reaches in the sub county. The activity The first outreach was conducted in Chaani was conducted in the Jamnazi village. ward. We had to move one BVR kit to the Through proper coordination with the Matangini area where there was a positive Changamwe IEBC office, we were given a turn-out. This kit was planted in the area at BVR kit. So our main mandate in the around 2:30 pm and managed to register 57 activity was to mobilize the larger new voters. This was a 120% more turn out community to come out and register as experienced in this activity than previously voters. Through this activity we managed to where the numbers were less than 25. register 49 new voters.
PORT-RIETZ WARD (Lilongwe) 4th/02/2017 In Lilongwe the activity was conducted in Male Female Total the same registration center. The BVR kit 456 244 700 had been there for over one week but the reports indicated that the kit had been
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The forums were conducted on different venues, with different kind of people at different times.
Mass voter registration activity during the outreaches conducted
Voter education discussions at Portreitz Community Civic Education and peace Area Chiefs place campaigns
a) Voter Education Data base on peer education Male Female Total During this period, the organization 12 14 26 conducted 4 voter education forums targeting youth’s leaders, youths, women 11 12 23 leaders, IEBC voter educators, security 15 11 26 apparatus, village elders, nyumba kumi 10 15 25 elders, balozis and opinion leaders. TOTAL 48 52 100 The forums reached 100 people.
b) Community peace outreaches together to promote peace. We used a lot of art work (Street dance, spoken words, Community peace outreach are activities signing and sport) in mobilizing people. that involved the general community both the bodaboda people, village elders, The organization managed to conduct 3 administration representatives, peace community peace dialogue outreaches committee members, youths and women. within Changamwe sub-county. The These activities were to generate objectives of the outreach were; discussions among the community on issues around them and how they can work i. To promote active citizenship in peaceful elections
ii. To strengthen engagement with community and security agencies to address day-to-day security issues
iii. To build early warning networks
Community engagements and participation
Below is a table which shows the number of people reached and the kind of guests present during the community outreaches conducted in 2017
c) Youth Dialogues /forums
In 2017 we managed to conduct three Youth cafes/forums reaching at least 249 young people. The main objective of these activities being to encourage the youths of Mombasa County to take up their rightful roles in leadership as provided by the constitution, participating in the august elections through voting to elect their own leaders, to discuss Peace and security, improve partnership with state actors and Group discussions activity during the Youth to discuss the youth development agenda café for Mombasa County
These activities were conducted within the community halls. Only invited youths Data of the youth café conducted attended due to budgetary limitations. The Date Male Female Total youth cafes saw young people signing 26th July 31 26 57 peace pledges. 2017
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25th 56 44 100 August 2017
30th Oct 67 25 92 2017 TOTAL 154 95 249
d) Graffiti Artwork.
As a way of reaching most of youths with the peace and voter education message we identified one wall within Changamwe “Kenyans Please Lets Vote Peacefully” the which was also a major polling station for message on the graffiti wall the graffiti art work. The message reaches more than 500 individuals per day. The peace massages States
Figure 1: Total number of people reached
TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE REACHED.
1000 900 800 700 600 456 500 385 400 400 244 216 249 169 154
200 95 48 52 100 NO. OF PEOPLE OF NO. 0 Mass voter Community Youth Graffiti peace Voter education registration peace Café/forums campaign forums outreaches installations ORGANIZATION’S ACTIVITIES.
No of Males reached No of Females reached No of people reached
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Figure 2: % per Activities done during the Year in terms of People Reached
Activities and % No. Of People Reached.
Voter education Mass voter registration forums Mass voter 4% Graffiti peace registration Community peace outreaches campaign 30% installations 39% Community peace Youth Café/forums outreaches 16% Graffiti peace campaign Youth Café/forums installations 11% Voter education forums
1. Election report made some observations as follows. (More detailed election report on the website) On the 8th August 2017, Election Day, we had 10 election observers on ground who The KIEMS kits were effective, no worked within Changamwe constituency. reports of failure in stations visited. We managed to walk around the five wards Those who needed assistance in within Changamwe constituency, and voting were assisted by the visited a number of polling centers and Presiding Officers and Party Agents
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who ensured that the voters were We also recorded that at least three directed on the right voting individuals whose details were not procedures. found in the KIEMS kit used Form All the voters were treated fairly. 32B to be allowed to vote in Bomu Each was given six ballot papers as primary school. should be. Some of the polling stations lacked The agents were well informed of proper lighting system that forced their roles at the station and the Party agents to use their Phone participated well flashlights during the counting Priority was given to the Aged, sick, process at night. pregnant women. Most of the presiding officers had No form of violence was technical challenges operating the experienced. The process was very KIEMS Kit for the first time. peaceful. People with disability had challenges accessing some of the polling stations e.g. Mwijabu primary polling station at Portriezt ward had some of its polling stations up stairs. No alarming incident was reported such as people being denied access to vote. All those who were in different queues after 5 pm were allowed to vote. Grouping of people was spotted in different polling centers late in the 2. General achievements made under evening after the voting was closed. the Human rights and governance The turnout was good at least 57% program in most of the polling stations It was very evident that the Campaign activities were witnessed voter education activities and outside polling stations E.g. peace initiatives conducted Migadini primary school, Kwahola by the organization had a Magongo Primary school, Bomu great impact on the primary school community since a majority We noted that at least 13 people approached the Election Day were assisted to vote through the with a sober mind intervention of the Presiding officer minimizing the incidences of and the Party agents in the eight polling centers we visited
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spoilt votes and emergence did not see the importance of of violence. voting, but through our civic Youths remained calm education activities in the through the entire election constituency the turnout was period making Changamwe over whelming during 8th peaceful. There weren’t any August 2017. A clear reports of death or extreme indicator that the violence in the area as was information had been well witnessed in other parts of perceived by the members of the country. community. Through the peace network Through the community that we formed as outreaches and youth cafes organization together with in Mombasa county most of village elders, peace the youths took the initiative committee members and of conducting peace walks at state actors there was smooth their ward levels by transmission of information involving their local leaders. and active patrol of police At least five walks were officers within changamwe. organized by different While we were conducting youths in Mombasa County mass voter registration The youth cafes led to campaigns between January- formation of Mombasa February 2017, we reported county network for young cases of voter apathy with human rights defenders to most of the people opting not champion for the rights of to vote on August since they youths in Mombasa. A total of 935 IEC Materials community dialogues distributed. activities. Based on the youth cafes, an
initiative emerged to start exchange visits among 3. Challenges respective youth groups as a way of promoting unity and We had few IEC materials during learning good practices the community activities which were amongst themselves. not enough to share with everyone. Below is a detailed table Due to limited resources we only showing the number of conducted civic education activities people reached through civic within Changamwe sub county of education information both Mombasa. through the youth café, Finding the wall for graffiti artwork community outreach and was a bit hectic, forcing us to only
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do one graffiti artwork instead of three since most of the strategic
walls had campaign posters which would be an offense as an 5. SYO DONORS 2017
organization to pull them down. 1 SYO STAFFS AND MEMBERS
4. Conclusion 2 EAST AND HORN AFRICA(DEFEND DEFENDERS)
We take this great opportunity to thank 3 PAWA 254 all our partners for supporting our work 4 LVCT HEALTH and their professional advice in any activity that we conducted. Secondly, I 5 DSW KENYA wish to thank the entire community starting from the village elders, women 6 FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA leaders, IEBC, Deputy and assistant 6 MUHURI county commissioners changamwe,
OCPD, OCS, area chiefs, opinion 8 YOUTH ALIVE KENYA leaders, youths , people with disability for their support in our activities. Lastly 9 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL KENYA
I wish to thank both the staff and 10 CENTRE FOR STUDY OF ADOLESCENTS(CSA) members at Stretchers Youth Organization for their dedication and 11 KITUO CHA SHERIA sacrifice to ensure that objectives for the 12 KENYA REDCROSS SOCIETY activities undertaken were met. God bless you more. 13 YOUTH ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT FUND
14 WOMEN FIGHTING AIDS IN KENYA
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BALANCE SHEET 31 Dec 17
ASSETS
Current Assets
Cash at bank and in hand
stretchers youth organization 44,290.00
Total Cash at bank and in hand 44,290.00
Accounts Receivable
GRANT DONATION (LCI)
ADMINISTRATION
INKIND DONATION(quantifiable) -5,160,000.00
Membership registration -1,200.00
Membership Renewal fee -21,900.00
refunds -3,000.00
ADMINISTRATION - Other -288.00
Total ADMINISTRATION -5,186,388.00
PROGRAMS
HRGP -600,390.00
HRP
Resource (Quantifiable) -3,400,000.00
HRP - Other -69,450.00
Total HRP -3,469,450.00
Total PROGRAMS -4,069,840.00
Total GRANT DONATION (LCI) -9,256,228.00
INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITY
Loan income -94,890.00 INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITY - Other -65,600.00
Total INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITY -160,490.00 - Total Accounts Receivable 9,416,718.00
Total Current Assets -9,372,428.00
TOTAL ASSETS -9,372,428.00
LIABILITIES & EQUITY
Liabilities
Accounts Payable -10,700.00
Total Accounts Payable -10,700.00
Total Current Liabilities -10,700.00
Total Liabilities -10,700.00
Capital and Reserves
TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY -9,361,728.00
-9,361,728.00
-9,372,428.00
SURPLUS & DEFICIT REPORT
Jan - Dec 17
Income 0.00
Expense
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE EXPENSE
Bank and other charges 2,610.00
Consultancy 28,000.00
Equipments purchase 250,000.00
Petty cash 1,871.00
Rent 23,200.00
Repair and Maintenance 4,450.00
Salary in kind quantifiable 5,160,000.00
Transports 4,450.00 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE EXPENSE - Other 180,914.00
Total ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE EXPENSE 5,655,495.00
GRANT DONATION EXPENSE
Programs HRGP
Communication 5,700.00
Consultancy 37,400.00
Coordination allowance 1,500.00
Equipment hire 10,500.00
Meals and refreshments 10,200.00
Travel and meetings 26,443.00
Total HRGP 91,743.00
HRP Communication 3,200.00
Facilitation/Coordination 6,700.00 Meals and Refreshments 9,080.00
Resources (Quantifiable) 3,400,000.00 Travel and meetings 18,060.00
Total HRP 3,437,040.00 Total Programs 3,528,783.00
Total GRANT DONATION EXPENSE 3,528,783.00
INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES Furniture & Equipment purchase 155,400.00
Loan resettlement 20,000.00
Transport 2,050.00
Total INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES 177,450.00
TOTAL EXPENSE 9,361,728.00
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