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INTRODUCTION

Network for Peace, Cohesion, and Heritage Trust (NEPCOH) is a peacebuilding organization established in 2019. It is headquartered at the Regional Peace, Cohesion, and Heritage Centre in Mandera, bringing together a pool of grassroots peace practitioners from various counties. The Network supports sustaining local peace infrastructures and grounds the peacebuilding efforts of county government, the national government, and the population in the Frontier Counties Development Council (FCDC) counties and the cross-border region. The Network is a local collaborative partnership that supports a pool of peacebuilders and local peace infrastructures to undertake peacebuilding and development work in Kenya. NEPCOH provides secretarial support to the Peace Actors Forum in the various counties in the FCDC Counties and is set up to provide in-kind and capacity support to formal and informal CBO, movements, and community initiatives involved in Peacebuilding and development work. Violent Conflict causes societies to disintegrate and ruins all interactions. NEPCOH Trust bases its conflict resolution on an open and inclusive dialogue of all peace stakeholders for long-term peace and empowering local peace infrastructures through peace and mediation capacity building.

Main Objectives

To support peacebuilding efforts and amplify local structures' peacebuilding initiatives for sustainable peace and development.

Advocacy

We advocate for peaceful coexistence and be a trusted arbiter to curb retaliation.

Community

We work with the community for peace initiatives and interventions for their betterment.

Integrity

We act with integrity and honesty in accordance with the highest professional and ethical standards.

Respect for Cultural Diversity

We are committed to recognise, respect, and appreciate the uniqueness of different customs and traditions to build unity and trust.

Innovation

Centre that will foster research knowledge on peace and conflict management.

OUR VISION

A Peaceful Society that uses its Heritage as a tool for Social Cohesion.

OUR MISSION

Empowering the community to constructively address conflicts through networking, consulting, and engaging.

Specific Objectives

Carry out initiatives to promote peacebuilding, living together in dignity, good relations, harmony, and peaceful co-existence. Foster more equitable sharing of power and resources, particularly in conflict-affected communities, and strengthen inclusive governance. Manage conflict in non-violent and non-coercive ways. Work in partnership with national and local actors to develop peace and cohesion.

Sustain social cohesion among communities with persistent historical and present grievances by fostering the 4-Rs (Reconciliation, Reintegration, Reconstruction, and Recovery) Promote community development, peace projects, and other purposes beneficial to such people and areas facing violence, including training in peace and cohesion. Build communities' resilience to the effects of climate-related migration and conflict.

Coordinate, collaborate, compliment, and Synergize peacebuilding programmes with any other person, governmental or non-governmental organizations, and limit duplication. Improve trust and collaborative relations between security actors and the public in target communities. Build and expand a network of strong civil society and key personalities that contribute to effective peacebuilding efforts in Kenya and along its borders.