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Capacity Development by NGOs
The Refugee Consortium of Kenya (RCK) held capacity building sessions with law
enforcement officers, prosecutors, judicial officers, and legal practitioners to increase
understanding and awareness of refugee protection laws and principles facilitating
human rights centered approaches whenever the participants came into contact with
refugees. Collaborations associated with monitoring, “enabled faster and effective
response in SGBV cases as well as in immigration and protection cases, ensuring that
the principles of non-refoulement, non-penalization, and non-discrimination were
upheld [and] ensured that Kenya complied with its regional and international
obligations.”
Act for Peace, as part of its work with local partners to strengthen systems of
protection, supported the organization and delivery of a 2020 Online Training for
Processing Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Taiwan in association with Amnesty
International Taiwan and the Taiwan Association for Human Rights. Sessions were held
for the National Immigration Agency, the Mainland Affairs Council, judges, lawyers,
and NGO staff respectively. Lawyers who attended are currently representing a
number of asylum claims, and links have subsequently been made with legal experts in
other countries in support of these cases.
© RCK/Getrude Ondoro
RCK’s courtesy visit to Kasarani Police Station, Nairobi, Kenya on 2 December 2020. RCK has partnered with the police station to
offer legal support to survivors of SGBV and technical legal support to the officers of law enforcement in responding to SGBV cases.