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Emergency Trust Fund for Africa
News article7 December 20201 min read

The RASMI project: Building peace in Africa’s Mandera Triangle

Building peace in Africa’s Mandera Triangle
PACT

Communities in the Mandera Triangle region connecting Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia have long endured conflict and political instability. With support from Pact's RASMI project, funded by the European Union Trust Fund for Africa, they are now leading their own efforts to manage conflict and build peace.

Details

Publication date
7 December 2020
Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
Thematic
  • Improved governance and conflict prevention
Partner
  • PACT

Programmes in the region

SINCE Project in Oromia Regional State

The specific objective is to create greater economic and employment opportunities: by establishing inclusive economic programmes that create employment opportunities, especially for young people and women with a focus on rural towns and urban areas, particularly Addis Ababa, in the most migration...

The specific objective ties in with the first, second and fourth objectives of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund, that is to provide employment opportunities and basic local services, as well as preventing conflict in marginalised communities in urban slums of Uganda.

The specific objectives of the project are:(1) To enhance understanding of sources of conflict and exclusion, leading to informed policy and interventions which identify means of addressing development needs and grievances;(2) To provide youth with skills which can be used to improve employment and.