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01/09/2026

🤝 People’s Assembly for Peace Ahead of Kenya’s 2027 General Election 🕊️

As Kenya moves closer to the 2027 General Election, strengthening community resilience, early warning and coordinated action remains critical to preventing conflict and promoting peaceful participation.

The Embassy of Denmark in Kenya and Act!, through the Resilience, Peace and Stability (RPS) Programme, participated in a People’s Assembly for Peace convened by Pamoja for Transformation. The engagement brought together youth leaders, peace champions, community representatives, and other peace and security stakeholders.

The discussions focused on strengthening preparedness by mapping conflict risks, triggers, hotspots, early warning indicators, actors and drivers across the Nairobi West Sub-Region, while identifying priority areas requiring timely and coordinated action.

🔎 Key highlights:

📌 Stronger community dialogue, information sharing and collaboration with security and governance institutions are essential to building trust and strengthening local peace systems.
📌 Youth are actively engaging in peacebuilding, particularly in strengthening digital Early Warning and Early Response (EWER) mechanisms.
📌 Digital platforms must be recognised as part of the peace and security environment, with greater attention to misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, incitement, hate speech and other emerging conflict drivers.
📌 Credible information, verification and constructive digital engagement can help counter harmful narratives while strengthening trust and peaceful participation.
📌 Stronger linkages between youth, the National Government Administration Office (NGAO) and the National Police Service (NPS) can support timely reporting, information sharing and response to emerging peace and security concerns.
📌 Regular community dialogues, social media monitoring and engagement with ongoing institutional processes, including IEBC civic engagement forums, to strengthen coordination across communities, security agencies, IEBC and other relevant actors.


What Next?
➡️ Strengthen locally led early warning and early response mechanisms that are responsive to emerging conflict risks.
➡️ Invest in youth-led digital peacebuilding, including participatory monitoring, verification and constructive online dialogue.
➡️ Deepen collaboration between communities, youth, governance institutions, security actors, IEBC and civil society to ensure timely and coordinated action.
➡️ Sustain community dialogue and information-sharing platforms throughout the electoral cycle.

27/08/2026

Katiba@16: Keeping the People at the Heart of Democracy ✊🏾

Today, we joined Civil Society Organisations, human rights defenders, citizens and other stakeholders to mark , themed: The People’s Power, Constitutionalism and Democracy Ahead of 2027.”

As Kenya continues to experience political mobilisation along ethnic and other identity lines, which could fuel tension, exclusion, and electoral violence, our Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation (PBCT) Platform Manager at Act! Elizabeth Atieno Rombo reflected on key actions that must be taken now, before the 2027 campaign period intensifies, to prevent political violence and promote peaceful, issue-based, and inclusive democratic participation:

🎯Make the election process predictable to boost institutional trust and confidence - Citizens will not trust a process they cannot see coming. Election preparedness needs to be a continuous, interactive engagement, or anxiety will fill the gap.

🎯Stop treating hate speech as politics as usual; they are early crimes that must be contained - Incitement and intimidation are not campaign-style. Enforce the code of conduct early and cohesion laws, with parties signing a peace charter before nominations, with dire consequences to those who contravene the charter.

🎯 Fix party nominations - Kenya’s ugliest pre-election fights happen inside political parties: disputed registers, imposed candidates, and gender rule evasion. Political parties must strengthen internal democracy, run transparent primaries and implement the 2/3 principle.

🎯Shift the public conversation toward issues while the audience is still listening, and link them to issues already prioritised by the people while also mitigating fragmented coordination among electoral governance, peace, security, and CSOs.

🎯Strengthen local peace systems where violence actually occurs - Local early warning and early response, and mediation frameworks should be working now, especially where electoral conflict risks are higher. Prevention is cheaper than recovery.

🎯Digital spaces must be treated as part of the electoral peace environment with young people as primary targets - Actors should build digital resilience actively through participatory narrative monitoring, verification, and constructive digital dialogue to complement conventional civic education.

Defending the constitution demands sustained action to protect civic space, strengthen institutions, promote peaceful participation and ensure accountability.



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26/08/2026

As Kenya marks 16 years since the promulgation of the Constitution, Katiba @ 16 provides an important moment to reflect on the progress made in advancing constitutionalism, democratic governance & the protection of citizens’ rights, and to consider what more needs to be done ahead of the 2027 General Elections.

Under the theme “The People’s Power, Constitutionalism and Democracy Ahead of 2027,” this year’s commemoration will bring together civil society, human rights defenders, citizens and other stakeholders for dialogue on strengthening constitutional democracy and ensuring that the people remain at the centre of Kenya’s democratic journey.

📅 27 August 2026
📍 Nairobi

Act! is pleased to join fellow civil society partners in supporting this important conversation and reaffirming our commitment to constitutionalism, accountable governance, human rights and meaningful citizen participation.

19/08/2026

📢 We’re Recruiting!

Act! is seeking an experienced fundraising professional to support resource mobilisation, cultivate new partnerships, identify funding opportunities, and contribute to the development of competitive proposals and concepts aligned with our strategic priorities.

The role is a performance-based associate consultancy engagement, with assignments undertaken based on agreed scope of work and mutual availability.

📅 Deadline: Wednesday, 2 September 2026 (COB)

📧 Apply via: [email protected]

🔗 View the full job description and application details on our website: https://act.or.ke/careers/associate-consultant-fundraising-resource-development-act-afcrd-3-08-2026/

06/08/2026

📢 We're Hiring!

Are you passionate about transforming knowledge into impact?

Act! is recruiting a Knowledge Management & Communications Officer to lead knowledge management initiatives, strengthen organisational learning, and drive strategic communications.

If you're a collaborative professional with strong analytical, writing, and stakeholder engagement skills, we'd love to hear from you.

🗓 Application Deadline: 18 August 2026, 5:00 PM (EAT)

🔗 View the full job description and application requirements here: https://act.or.ke/careers/knowledge-management-communication-officer-ref-act-kmco-1-2026/

03/08/2026

Join Our Board and Help Shape the Future of Inclusive Development in Kenya!

Act! is inviting Expressions of Interest from qualified and experienced Kenyan development professionals to join our Board of Directors.

We are seeking two visionary leaders who are passionate about contributing to the strategic direction of a national Public Benefit Organisation committed to democratic governance, peacebuilding, human rights, environmental stewardship, and civil society strengthening.

📌 Two positions are available:
• One position is available immediately.
• The second position takes effect on 1 January 2027.

🗓 Application Deadline: Wednesday, 12 August 2026

For application details and eligibility requirements, please refer to the poster below

27/07/2026

24/07/2026

Strong electoral governance is built on accountable institutions, informed citizens, and strategic partnerships.

We were pleased to host the Commission on Administrative Justice (Ombudsman Kenya) for a strategic engagement under the Reformed Elections for Enhanced Democracy and Inclusion (REDI) Programme, funded by the Embassy of Sweden in Nairobi.

The discussions explored opportunities to strengthen collaboration in advancing administrative justice, access to information, civic engagement, and social cohesion as Kenya prepares for the 2027 General Election.

Key areas of convergence included strengthening complaints management and public accountability systems, promoting proactive disclosure of election information, leveraging digital technologies to enhance transparency, and expanding civic awareness initiatives that empower citizens—particularly young people—to participate meaningfully in democratic processes.

The engagement also underscored the importance of evidence-driven collaboration in addressing emerging electoral risks, including misinformation, declining public trust, voter exclusion, and electoral disputes, while reinforcing institutional accountability throughout the electoral cycle.

We look forward to working closely with the Commission on Administrative Justice and other accountability institutions to advance transparent, inclusive, and peaceful electoral processes.

Stay tuned as we continue building partnerships that strengthen democratic governance and public trust ahead of the 2027 General Election.

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐂𝐓! 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

On Thursday, 23rd July 2026, the Commission held a consultative meeting with ACT! (Act Change Transform), led by Chief Executive Officer Mr. Tom Were and Dr. Michael Karanja, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Specialist.

The meeting explored opportunities for collaboration to strengthen administrative justice and access to information within election preparedness programmes. Discussions focused on developing a coordinated approach to dispute resolution and information sharing among election management stakeholders.

Key areas of engagement included monitoring compliance with proactive disclosure requirements throughout the electoral cycle, enhancing access to information for candidate vetting, strengthening the resolution of electoral complaints, and analysing complaint trends to generate strategic insights for improving electoral governance.

The two institutions also agreed to continue engaging on leveraging technology to improve information sharing, enhance coordination, and promote greater inclusion in electoral processes.

The Commission was represented by Assistant Director, Complaints, Legal Services and Regional Coordination, Ms. Sarah Muthiga, accompanied by Senior Resource Mobilisation Officer, Ms. Edith Imunde.

22/07/2026

22/07/2026