“Do Not Buy Stolen Property” is a project that aim to use citizen media to promote good citizenship and personal responsibility by discouraging the residents of Kisumu City from buying stolen goods or goods from questionable sources. The overall objective of this campaign is to discourage the involvement of young people in crime by reducing the number of channels through which they can convert stolen goods into cash.
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
KISUMU
Describe the specific population with whom you will be working.
Most prolific young offenders see themselves as stealing not only to fulfill their own personal needs but also to service the wants and needs of others in their neighborhoods. Thus many young offenders see themselves as one person among many providing an essential, albeit criminal, service in supplying the wants of a bargain seeking general public.
The society is so hypocritical since it condemns and imprisons the thief (including large numbers of young/juvenile offenders) while it is the other adult citizens who regularly encourage and profit from the crimes. The adults themselves remain free and easy in the community. This project aims to communicate to the young people that crime is not good and also to the community not to indirectly encourage crime
Who else will be on your team to help implement the project?
Kenya Police
City of Kisumu
Kenya Prisons
Business Associations
Residents Associations
County Government of Kisumu
Civil Society Organizations
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Audio-Visual content of reformed young/juvenile prolific offenders on their experience in crime and the turning point in their life.
Audio-Visual content of experts on criminology and the legal consequences of crime related to stolen property
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established or plan to establish that will contribute to the success of the project.
YUSUD shall develop a working relationship with various stakeholders since crime is a cross-cutting issue in Kisumu City. The petty crime levels in Kisumu has risen over the years since 2007/2008 Post Election Violence
YUSUD intends to share its approach on this project with the various stakeholders for their contribution in planning and implementation
How many participants do you think will be trained in your project?
The project aims train about 500 direct participants and over 250,000 indirect participants
Describe which technologies, tools, and media you will focus on when training participants.
The Project shall majorly use digital video content to train participants on crime reduction strategies. However, a variety of other technologies shall be incorporated to ensure a wider audience is reached and the information decoded to the local level of understanding
Describe the facilities where you will hold the workshops.
All the workshops shall be held in public social halls. The local halls have electricity and thus YUSUD shall provide all the other relevant facilities including computers, projectors, temporary internet connections
What is your current relationship with the community with whom you plan to work? What makes you the most appropriate individual or organization to implement this project?
Since 2012, YUSUD has been conducting civic education on the implementation of the Constitution of Kenya at grassroots levels in Kisumu County under the Kenya National Integrated Civic Education (KNICE) funded by Ministry of Justie. YUSUD has been using Civic education in creating civic awareness, re-orienting the community spirit for the new dispensation and stimulating a robust public engagement in the implementation process of the constitution. To this end, YUSUD is committed in ensuring that the local residents are informed and empowered to own and exercise their rights and obligations under the Constitution
What specific challenges do you expect to face when planning and implementing your project?
Limitation of funds to be able to reach a wider target population is the main challenge. We hope to overcome this by lobbying for further support from the various stakeholders ad partners in the project.
How will you measure and evaluate the project’s impact, specifically: your primary participants, the wider regional community, or the global digital community?
The project success shall be mainly measured by the Percentage reduction in petty crime levels in Kisumu; The number of persons successfully reached with the media content; The Percentage reduction in incidences of youth/juvenile offenses
If your project were to be selected as a Rising Voices grantee, what would be the general timeline of project activities in 2014?
Social Mapping and stakeholder orientation Months 1, 2 and 3
Participants Selection and Media Content Development Months 2 and 3
Training workshops Month 4
Project M&E Months 5 and 6
Lobbying for external support for continuity Strategy Formulation Months 5 and 6
End of Project Report writing Month 6
Detail a specific budget of up to $2,500 USD for operating costs.
Stationery $150.00
Digital Video Content Production $650.00
Workshops Costs $750.00
Travel Expenses $200.00
Communication & Internet $150.00
Co-ordination Fees $350.00
M&E $200.00
Besides the microgrant funding, what other support can Rising Voices provide for your project to ensure its success?
We seek for Rising Hope to provide YUSUD with better skills in using Citizen Media in responding to common social problems. We also hope Rising Hope shall expose our project to the international community since our project addresses an issue that is cross-cutting across the globe.
Above all, we hope Rising voices shall provides funds to implement this project
Contact name
JEMIMA ANYANGO OTIENO
Organization
YOUTHS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (YUSUD)
