​May  2018
Solutions Summit in Uganda
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Impart Change was privileged to participate in a Solutions Summit implement by the Institute for Research and Education Exchange Board (IREX), through the  Community Solutions Program.  The goal of the inaugural Solutions Summit was to bring Community Solutions Program alumni, U.S. partners, and experts together to discuss how to address community-level violence and promote social cohesion in communities. The Summit took place in Kampala, Uganda from May 13, 2018 to May 16, 2018.

For more information on IREX, please click the link below.

April  2018

7th Tana High Level Forum - Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Impart Change founder and director, Ms. Vyonne Akoth was privileged to participate in the 7th Tana Forum. The high level forum provided a great opportunity for stakeholders and Yvonne to deliberate on how Africa can ‘Own and Finance’ its security. With a peace fund already put in place, forum participants agreed that it was much cheaper to work on prevention, rather than fund security which is very expensive. Honored to participate in the forum, our director left the forum more informed, inspired and challenged to take a stronger stance in contributing to Africa’s security strategy from the bottom up. It was an honor for her to have a brief discussion with H.E. Graca Machel who was part of the Mediation team in Kenya’s 2007/2008 post elections violence, and delighted to engage in a fruitful conversation with Samia Nkrumah, whose father set a good precedent for leadership in Africa.  

For more information on the forum, please click the link below.


​March  2018
​6th Pan African Youth Leadership Summit of the United   Nations 
 
Impart Change is honored to join the International Steering Committee of the 6th Panafrican Youth Leadership Summit of the United Nations, scheduled to take place in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso. The flagship event of pan-African young leaders will bring together more than 1,500 young people from Africa and the diaspora, and will focus on the theme: "Towards the appropriation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the contribution of young people at the heart of HIV catch-up plan (90-90-90) and the capture of the Demographic Dividend ".




February 2018

Young women in Good Governance; A prerequisite for peace and security.

In February 2018, we were delighted to partner with the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) through their young women program to empower more young women that they support from 2 of their centers in the informal settlements. Our training workshop was held at the YMCA Headquarters in Nairobi. In the workshop,  we focused more on Article 10 of the Kenyan Constitution where we  looked at the national values and principles of governance binding all State organs, State officers, public officers and all persons. We also looked at patriotism, national unity, sharing and devolution of power, the rule of law, democracy and participation of the people; as well as human dignity, equity and social justice.


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