Mission

To create a more just peaceful and loving society, based on respect for human dignity, rights and proper relationships with God, oneself, our neighbours and creation itself by building structures for civic engagements and protest all forms of injustices.

Objective

To strengthen human rights centered governance through building capacities of communities to engage in policy advocacy and to hold state institutions accountable.

Core Values

• Accountability & transparency
• Equity
• Justice
• Teamwork
• Integrity
• Dignity

They include the following thematic areas;

• Lenten Campaign Advocacy
• Access   to Justice (Small Claims Courts, Legal Aid & Paralegalism)
• Conflict Reduction and Peace Building
• Human Rights Education and Advocacy
• Accountability, Governance and Economic Justice
• Environmental Justice (Extractives, Climate Change, Natural Resources Governance)
• Child Protection and Safeguarding
• Cross Border Peace and Evangelization

Lenten Campaign Advocacy

• Sensitized 443 justice and peace committees members in 12 out of 29 parishes in the diocese on Lenten Campaign advocacy on annual themes and weekly topics developed during Lenten Campaign period.
• Constructed 36 houses for vulnerable Christians of St. Cathrine SCC in St. Augustine parish.
• Sensitized Interreligious council members (Protestants and Muslis) on the importance of Lenten Campaign advocacy.
• Conducted a County Prayer Day where the 2019 Lenten Campaign theme “Uniting, Healing and Renewal of our Nation…God’s Gift” was the prayer theme and the weekly topics and the Ten Social Teachings of the Catholic Church formed part of the prayer items.

Access to Justice (Small Claims Court, Legal Aid & Paralegalism)

• Promoted use of village/native/small claim’s courts: They are now used in most locations by the chiefs and village elders.The village courts were piloted in Juluk (Kalomwae) and Kataboi sub-locations and they have worked well in solving community conflicts. The assistant chief of Kataboi who piloted the concept graduated to the position of an Assistant County Commissioner (DO). The government has also legalized the village courts concept by enacting an Act of Parliament on it ( Small Claims Courts Act 2016)
• Helped 40 survivors (sexual offences, land ownership cases, domestic violence cases & accident cases) of Human Rights Violations with legal assistance to access justice. 34 of these cases were sucessfully concluded with the vulnerable community members accessing justice, 3 of the 40 cases are still in court awaiting ruling.
• Daily handling of clients in the office seeking justice and making referrals of clients to the relevant authorities.

Conflict Reduction and Peace Building

• Formed peace committees in 5 in the bordering parishes of the diocese.
• Organized peace meetings in the 10 conflict prone parishes (Lokori, Kainuk, Katilu, Nakwamoru, Lorugum, Turkwel, Oropoi, Lokichoggio, Kibish and Todonyang) along the borders of Lodwar diocese and Kitale, Nakuru and Maralal dioceses and Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia Countries.
• Conducted cross border peace connector meetings between the bordering parishes (Lokori, Kainuk, Nakwamoru, Lorugum, Turkwel, Oropoi, Kalobeyei, Lokichoggio, Kibish, Todonyang and Loarengak) in the diocese and the bordering parishes in Kitale, Nakuru, Maralal dioceses in Kenya, Moroto and Kotido dioceses in Uganda, Torit diocese in South Sudan and Jimma Bonga & Soddo dioceses in Ethiopia.
• Organized and shared County Dialogue Conference where all religious groups, NGOs, Local CBOs, County and National government converged to discuss the pertinent issues affecting the county.
• Championed for peaceful disarmament of the warrying communities by the government which has been initiated in Turkana South and Psigor (West Pokot) constituencies.
• Working with NCIC (National Cohesion and Integration Commission) to start joint peace activities in the North Rift Counties of Turkana, West Pokot, Baringo, Elgeyo Marakwet and Samburu that are in perennial conflicts.

Human Rights Advocacy and Education

• Conducted civic education on key issues affecting the community (New Constitution, Human Rights advocacy, Child rights protection, Devolution, Finance management) in 10 parishes out of the 29 parishes of the diocese.
• Introduction of human rights education to learning institutions (secondary and tertiary).
• Revived the publication of the advocacy magazine (Sauti Ya Jamii) to be used in educating the community on emerging issues and to bring out injustices that are happening in the community (A Voice of the Voiceless).
• Conducted several radio programs to educate the community on key issues affecting lives including the extractive industry operations, security, devolution among others.

Accountability, Governance and Economic Justice

• Imparted  Social Audit advocacy skills to 150 (60 female & 90 male) social auditors in the parishes of Lokori, Lokichar, Kainuk, Lorugum, Napetet, Lokitaung, Kakuma. They are conducting community audits in the projects in their parishes and mobilizing community groups to participate in public forums to voice out their views and concerns.
• Trained 22 journalists on Tax justice concept, Petroleum Act 2019, Public Finance Management Act, Financial flows, Budget Making Process, New media management, Use of Social media platforms (Twitter, Face Book page e.t.c).
• Sensitized 280 community groups members (justice and peace committiees, grievance handling committees, elders, youth, women and administrators) in Lokori and Lokichar parishes on the concept of Tax Justice, budget making process, financial flows, transparency and accountability in the petroleum sector.

Environmental Justice

• Successfully formed a 24 member community led grievance handling committees in Lokichar and Lokori parishes to help in peacefully solving community conflicts arising from extractives.
• Sensitized communities (women, youth, elders and stakeholders) in Lokori and Lokichar parishes in ADR (Altenative Disputes Resolution) mechanisms, use of EWS (Early Warning Signs) in resolving conflicts resulting from the extractive industry.
• Successfully promoted ecosystem based adaptation approaches to climate change and governce in Turkana County especially in Turkana South and East sub counties.  
• Managed to mitigate the conflicts that were rampant between the local community and Tullow Oil company through peaceful engagement strategies employed by the grievance handling committee formed in the community by the department.

Child Protection and Safeguarding

• Trained 80 caregivers supported by the Vulnerable Children Program on adherence to ART,positive parenting skills and WASH
• Supported 350 children with education (distribution of scholastic materials and paying school fees),health (referring children to healthcare facilities) and nutrition (monthly food distributionto vulnerable households)
• Identified eight teenage mothers and trained them on positive parenting skills.
• Preventing and responding to child abuse cases such as neglect and defilement.
• Building the capacity of the Diocesan staff on the Diocesan child safeguarding policy.

• Strengthen justice and peace committees at the parish level in all the 29 parishes of Lodwar diocese.
• Develop and resource for independent legal services department within Justice and Peace commission
• Strategically have Peace Building and Conflict Management Field offices at the conflict prone Parishes to enable border those parishes engage with internally and externally neighbouring parishes in the neighbouring dioceses across and within Kenya
• Develop and Resource for Full-fledged department for Political and Civic Education on duties for Rights for rights holders and Obligations for Duty Bearers. 
• Develop and Resource for Economic Justice Program to assist in basic needs basket advocacy and tax justice
• Develop and Resource for Environmental Justice Programme to enable advocate for extractive, climate change and environmental justice in Turkana and in Kenya
• Develop and resource for GBV program to help in women and girls increased safety from gender-based violence
• Develop and resource for Safeguarding program to assist in supporting vulnerable children and adults.
• There is need to open justice and peace offices in each deanery to effectively handle justice and peace concerns in the respective deaneries. North deanery and Lake zone deanery are priorities.