Strengthening the role of NHRIs in conflict prevention, resolution and peace‐building with a focus on East African Community NHRIs
Conflict and Peace Building
Key milestones:
A baseline survey was conducted and a report titled ‘The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Conflict Management, Resolution and Peace Building ‐ A Baseline Survey of the East African Situation’ was produced in 2012.
After consultations on the Baseline Survey report, a 3 year Action Plan for East African Community NHRIs on Conflict Management, Resolution and Peace building’ in 2013 was adopted .This resulted into; a forum seeking to re‐evaluate the status of the implementation, country by country and collectively and a peer to peer exchange and capacity building workshop on the role of NHRIs in the electoral process that was held in early 2015.
The workshop yielded country specific action plans as well as a collective action plan on the steps that NHRIs in the sub-region would take to augment their involvement in the electoral process in their respective countries and in the sub-region.