The Uraia Trust Civic Education Program

$5.52M USD

Funder	U.S. Agency for International Development
Recipient Organization	Enterprise - Non United States Other
Country	Kenya
Start Date	Jan 03, 2012
End Date	Jun 13, 2014
Duration	892 days
Number of Grantees	33
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`198448-76`

Grant Description

The Uraia Trust Civic Education Program is an umbrella under which 57 Kenyan civil-society organizations supported training and deployment of civic educators and the dissemination of a national civic education curriculum in all 47 counties of Kenya.

The Program was designed to respond to the hate campaigns that preceded the 2007/2008 post-election violence.ACTIVITY AREAS.

The Uraia Trust Civic Education Program provided quality civic education to help Kenyan citizens pursue their rights under the new Constitution.

Before the 2013 election, the Program used a national civic education curriculum, The Citizen Handbook, developed in collaboration with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), to disseminate accurate and timely information on electoral process and system.

Three hundred and fifty nine trained civic educators from 57 civil society organizations helped disseminate the curriculum. Each civic educator covered at least eight organized groups (youth groups, women groups etc.) in his or hercommunity