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NOMADIC & WAJIR PEACE

Nomadic staff in WajirNOMADIC is a district based Local Kenyan organization, registered locally in 1990. We aim to bridge the gap between the government and pastoralist community groups. In 2003 we merged with Wajir Peace and Development Committee for effectiveness and strategic programme direction.

Nomadic/Wajir Peace work in partnership with EPAG Kenya and UK to link Mandera and Wajir District creating synergy and learning between the two organizations.

Our Objectives

To enhance peace and reconciliation in cross border communities.

To build the humanitarian response capacity of local pastoralist institutions and community groups.

 

To expand our knowledge and understanding of pastoralists.

To enhance the participation of community members in decision making processes.

To facilitate learning and sharing between practitioners and policy-makers at all levels of society.

To assist pastoralists to be self reliant and self financing and raise their profile, local knowledge and expertise.

Our Projects

  • Nomadic Pastoralist Education
  • Humanitarian support
  • Peace and Reconciliation
  • Community Health 
  • Skills development and income generation
  • Organizational development

Nomadic Pastoralist Education - MOBILE SCHOOLS

The mobile schools initiative developed out of the exisiting nomadic primary health care programme in wajir district. It is designed to deliver education and training services to Nomadic pastrolist. Pastoralists comprise 70% of the population of Wajir district and their mobility means that they are 'hard to reach' and therefore often fail to access essential services. The programme was designed to also be mobile in order to be appropriate to this way of life. The 'Hanuniye', is the Somali name given to their mobile school teachers. It means 'educator and enlightener'.

The role of the Hanuniye is to impart basic literacy and numeracy to the family members.  However, he also provided veterinary as well as human medical dispensary. The Hanuniye were creative and flexible people that had to respond to the changing and developing needs of the Pastoralists. Their expertise was wide, including: Agricultural support; civic education and environmental resource management.

The existence of old age traditional (Duksi) Koran School inspired Nomadic's development of its mobile schools. Although the mobile schools were not a replica of the Duksi, the possibility of mobile school education was conceived as possible though the adoption of the element of the Duksi system.

Mobile Formal Education 

Nomadic's mobile formal education was developed in diff division of Wajir District, bordering with Somalia. The project has trained teachers and provided both secular education up to standard three and appropriate skills based learning for all pastoralists. Nomadic have so far supported the development of 6 schools with a population of 150 children (80 female/ 70 male).  This inludes 6 trained teachers and 6 trained teaching assistants. Each teacher receives a learning Kits for 12 families.  The Learning Kit is for the school pupils and comprises exercise books, text books, Lamps, Pencils, Bags, A Metal Box, First Aid Kit, Register, Visitor, and a mattress.

Strategic & policy framework

To acheive effective mobile education for pastoralists the project needs to fit within government of Kenya's educational policy framwork.  This includes the involvement of all stakeholders. The D.E.O office is engaged in both the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the nomadic education programme. The programme will use the existing non formal (GOK) curriculum supplied through the D.E.O’s office. In addition static village schools in the catchments areas of the specified mobile schools are linked to the mobile programme. A resource teacher from their staff is assigned to the mobile school in their catchment. These resource teachers provide outreach services to the mobile schools and report on the schools progress.

The role of the pastoralist community

The community have ownership over all the stages of developemnt of the mobile schools. The central player in the programme is ‘’Rer’’ or the family where mobile school is established. The identification of the teachers the day-to-day running of the school and overall ownership of the school is tasked with the family or (Rer).

Our management & Support 

Nomadic currently has three main systems of support.

Locally: The project management committee who are responsible for the day to day management

Nationally: A Board of trustees that informs our policy and strategic direction.

Internationally: The Wajir Welfare Foundation, a network of rotary doctors based in the Netherlands who support Nomadic's health work in Wajir and EPAG UK, our partner who channels funding from Comic Relief for pastoralist education.

Our donors

  • Comic Relief  UK based statutory donor that funds pastoralist education work.
  • Peace Direct funds peace and reconciliation.
  • The Wajir Walfare Foundation and Rotary doctors of Netherlands fund community health.
  • Individuals in Kenya and UK funding relief and humanitarian work. 

Contact Us

Hussein Adan, Coordinator NOMADIC /Wajir Peace,  Po Box 427 Wajir, Kenya. Mobile + 254 720857 720Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Muniso Yussuf and Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Support office, Box 3032 -80100 Mombasa, Kenya. Mobiles: +254 721915853 Dekha Ibrahim/ +254 721 928 423 Muniso Yusuf Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Mohamed Osman International Liaison London. Mobile +447950832339 mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it