PAGE 15 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.

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