The Trustbuilding Program timeline

Datum

On the Program level

There have been several international visits to support the project teams:

Trustbuilding Program Manager, Talia Smith, visited Kenya 13 – 21 October to provide support to the team. Her time was divided between Nairobi, working with the team on different project functions, and Mombasa where she met with project stakeholders.

Matthew Freeman, a trainer for the Program, visited Kenya to co-facilitate with Kenya’s Project Manager, Dan Mugera, a four-day capacity building and trustbuilding workshop for 16 members of the wider team. They also worked on contextualizing the Trustbuilding Program Training Manual for the Kenyan context.

Rob Corcoran and Ebony Walden delivered a trustbuilding and dialogue facilitation training, and Roxann Kioko delivered an evaluation workshop. Each spent three days supporting the team and meeting project stakeholders.  

A Knowledge Management Officer was hired for IofC International. Ritu Kumar, from Florida, USA will initially focus on supporting the Trustbuilding Program.

November

Kenya

On 8 November, there was an outreach activity at Mombasa Baptist High School with 36 participants.

An interfaith dialogue was held at Royal Castle Hotel on 9 November with participants from Mombasa. The faith ratio was almost equal having slightly more Muslims than Christians, given that the Coastal region is majority Muslim.

Communications around The Trustbuilding Program became available through a variety of mediums: website, intranet (xChange), monthly email updates, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram posts.

December

Canada

On 3 – 9 December, Talia Smith, visited the team to provide support. 

The Roundtable, held on 7 December, demonstrated the strength the team has in getting together diverse participants. An eclectic group of 47 people attended the event, representing the human rights legal sector, arts (literature), indigenous groups, immigrants, academics, and activists.

France

The OUI ACT project started workshops at a second school, ,th two classes confirmed through a partnership with a School Association. 

On the Program level

Trustbuilding Program hired a new Development Officer, Amy Lambrecht.

2020

January

Kenya

On 13 January, the Trustbuilding Program team organized a communications skills workshop for the wider IofC Kenyan team, getting professionals to join in and pass along their knowledge.

February

Each project team has been building small but important counter narratives to hate and segregation on the ground in their local contexts which brings hope in the current world.

Kenya

On 1 – 2 February a Trustbuilding workshops took place in Garissa and the team conducted the first ever history walk at Garissa University.

The Project Managers from France and Kenya spoke at the Trustbuilding plenary of 'Towards a Humane World' international conference at Asia Plateau, India, on 11 February.

Program Manager, Talia Smith, ran a workshop on Trustbuilding and numerous team meetings took place during the international conference at Asia Plateau.

March

Expressions of Interest letter to be part of year 2 of the Trustbuilding Program will go out to the global network.

Kenya

Trustbuilding workshops in Mombasa (5 – 7 March).

Canada

Trustbuilding Training during two weekends (6 – 8 March and 27 – 29 March).

France

The team will continue reaching out to new schools to collaborate with whilst following up with the student’s citizen outreach initiatives from previous classes. 

April – August

Kenya

The Imam & the Pastor will visit Garissa, Kenya in April to conduct outreaches and a workshop around the anniversary of the Al-Shabab massacre in Garissa University.

Ongoing application process for participating project countries to be a part of the Trustbuilding Program Year 2.

September

The new participating project countries for year 2 of the Trustbuilding Program will be confirmed by end September. The projects for year 2 will start in December.

 

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The Trustbuilding Program is aimed at addressing divisive issues at the international and national levels, on the premise that only those who have undergone the internal process of becoming trustworthy themselves can close gaps across the globe. The Program was launched by Initiatives of Change International in 2019 with projects in Kenya, Canada and France.