Project profile — Supporting 160 Girls Police Training Scale-up to End Child Rape in Kenya

• Kenya (100.00%)

• Legal and judicial development:
Legal and judicial development (15130) (10.00%)
Police (15132) (20.00%)
Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (70.00%)

• Gender equality (principal objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (principal objective)
• Youth Issues (principal objective)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The project aims to enforce existing child rape laws, and increase safety from child rape for all girls in Kenya. The project supports the equality effect (e²) to create systemic change in Kenya, by ending impunity for child rape through its 160 Girls justice project. The project works to reduce gender-based violence, and ensure girls have access to justice so that they can live safe, healthy, and empowered lives, and contribute to local economies in meaningful ways. Project activities include: (1) developing, delivering and incorporating police college training into police college curriculum to increase police ability to investigate cases consistent with human rights law and international best practices; (2) developing Justice Clubs to educate girls on rape, incorporating them into the Ministry of Education curriculum, and rolling them out across Kenya; and (3) supporting the implementation of a health impact and child rape incidence measurement methodology.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved child rape investigations by police officers in Kenya; and (2) improved and equitable access to justice for girls in Kenya regarding child rape investigations.

Results achieved at the end of the project (May 2024) include: (1) supported 624 Officers in Command of Station (100 women and 524 men) from the Kenya National Police Service (NPS) to participate in a 5-day “Training of Trainers” program. This allowed to increase the police officers’ capacity to investigate child rape cases effectively; (2) allowed the trained officers to share their training with about 62,400 members of the NPS; (3) allowed 2,302 abuse victims to reporte to trained police stations. 1,996 (86%) received justice according to the 160 Girls High Court within 3 months of reporting to police; (4) trained 99 instructors (29 women and 70 men) from the NPS training colleges in effective child rape case investigation; and (5) supported 2,165 students (1,352 girls and 813 boys) from 9 schools to participate in virtual justice clubs to build their self-confidence, leadership skills, and awareness of their human rights.

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