Chief of Party – Women’s Peace Campaign project (217359-927

Chief of Party – Women’s Peace Campaign project (217359-927)
Closing date: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Kenya - Nairobi

This position is pending funding.

PROGRAM/ DEPARTMENT SUMMARY:
The Women’s Peace Campaign Project is an upcoming USAID program designed is to improve local and national women’s organization’s capacity to address violence against women and to create a grassroots-based network that will serve to prevent and mitigate conflict, especially in the lead up to the 2012 election.

Mercy Corps Kenya has been responding to the violence in Kenya following disputed presidential elections in December 2007 through the Local Empowerment for Peace (LEAP) program in Rift Valley province. LEAP is working with communities especially affected by the violence to build the capacity local level Peace Committees and stimulate dialogue on the underlying causes of conflict. The project has a strong youth focus through cash-fork programming for at-risk beneficiaries and longer-term income generation activities for youth-led microenterprises. The sister program, LEAP Sport has supported more than 3,000 inter-ethnic sports teams with training in teamwork, cooperation, reconciliation, and non-violent conflict resolution.