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The second training week of the Women Peace Leadership Programme (WPLP) took place in Nairobi, Kenya.

This was the second module of the three modules scheduled in the WPLP programme.

The training brought together a total of 25 women from Kenya, Uganda,
Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia. The women were taken through sessions of training to empower them in peace leadership so that their voices can be heard and their roles in peace building can be recognized in their communities. The progr… Continue

Women’s voices are rarely heard in post conflict reconstructions; nor are their contributions acknowledged.


This is more so the case in the conflict prone clusters of Somalia and Karamoja (the border region of Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia). This realization formed the breeding ground for the Women Peace Leadership Programme (WPLP), a joint effort between COPA and Pact Inc with the financial support of USAID.


Part of the invisibility of females has been attributed… Continue

Prominent COPA member Tecla Namachanja Wanjala has been sworn in as member of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) in Kenya.


Tecla is one of the founders of COPA. Her experience in peace building is extensive. She has set up and managed camps for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) during the ethnic clashes surrounding the Kenyan General Elections in 1992. For seven years she worked as the coordinator of the Peace and Development Network of the NGO Counci… Continue

The Kenya Burning exhibition was one of the most explicit and memorable accounts of the Post-Election Violence 2007/2008 after the General Elections in Kenya.





After the exhibition officially ended, youth and peace building organisations cooperated to bring this exposition to the youth as a learning experience. A total of 18 peace clubs from different secondary schools in Nairobi were targeted – coming from Huruma, Kibera, Dandora, Eastleigh, Jericho/ Jogoo Road and P… Continue