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Interior: 450 youth and women, 90 per county, in BRACE4PEACE skills cohort

By Wanjiku Njeri 3 min read
Interior: 450 youth and women, 90 per county, in BRACE4PEACE skills cohort

Key points

  • First cohort: 450 vulnerable youth and women, 90 from each of Nairobi, Kilifi, Kisumu, Isiolo and Samburu.
  • Unveiled Thursday 13 August 2026 at the fifth steering meeting of the Peacebuilding and Preventing Violent Extremism in East Africa Programme.
  • BRACE4PEACE partners: Kenya, KOICA (Republic of Korea), UNDP, TVETs, NCIC and the National Steering Committee on Peacebuilding.
  • County tracks: ICT in Nairobi, coastal tourism in Kilifi, cage aquaculture in Kisumu, beekeeping and beadwork in Isiolo and Samburu. Omollo also told NDOC to prepare for October–December rains.

Four hundred and fifty places, 90 a county, five maps. That is the first intake Interior Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo put on a peace-and-skills table on Thursday 13 August 2026, Eastleigh Voice reported.

The counties are Nairobi, Kilifi, Kisumu, Isiolo and Samburu. The brand is Building Resilience and Community Empowerment for Peace — BRACE4PEACE — under a wider East Africa peacebuilding programme whose fifth steering committee sat that day. Partners named: the Kenyan state, Korea’s KOICA, UNDP, TVET houses, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission and the National Steering Committee on Peacebuilding and Conflict Management, plus the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya. Training, a ministry statement said, is meant to be “practical, market-relevant”: digital and ICT in Nairobi; coastal tourism in Kilifi; cage fish in Kisumu; bees, beads and crafts in Isiolo and Samburu. “The focus is on strengthening community resilience, promoting social cohesion and expanding economic opportunities. These pillars must move together if we are to reduce the risks facing vulnerable communities.” Omollo said people pulled into crime or extremist networks are “our people,” often after neglect. He told the National Disaster Operations Centre to work with counties ahead of the October-to-December rains, and said a security deployment plan for the 2027 election already exists, drawing on 2022. In the room: NCIC chair Bishop Kepha Nyamweya Omae, vice-chair Irene Tulel, UNDP’s Madelena Monoja, KOICA’s Jooyoung Baek and Ann Ndingo. A steering photo is not a payroll. The 450 names, the TVET contracts and the stipend (if any) still have to be published.

A county quota is not a workshop attendance list

Ninety slots per county will vanish into “partners” unless Interior posts the selection rules and the start dates for each track.

Education desk: Education. Verified 450/90/five counties, KOICA–UNDP frame and 13 August meeting from Eastleigh Voice.

Interior should publish the 450 selection circular. NCIC should say what “civic education” item it owns in the same programme.

Applicants in the five counties should use the named TVET, not a forwarded WhatsApp form.

Readers should cross-check any deadline, fee, court date or programme claim against primary gazettes, agency circulars and court records before acting on this report.

Official gazettes, court rulings and agency circulars may update these facts after publication; readers should verify any deadline, fee or court date against primary sources before acting.

Based on Eastleigh Voice reporting of the 13 August Interior briefing. Cohort names were not released in that account.