raia Trust is a charitable trust, which works in the areas of civic education, civic engagement and institutional transformation. Uraia’s vision is to build an informed, empowered and democratic nation. Uraia does this by facilitating the development of an engaged citizenry through the provisi… read moreon of quality civic education that enables Kenyans to realise their constitutional aspirations. Uraia’s Key Focus Areas for 2016-2020 are entrenching constitutionalism, promoting free and fair elections, addressing the historical political marginalisation of women, youth, persons with disabilities, marginalised and minority groups and promoting internal excellence. Uraia works in Kenya through civic educators, implementing partners at the national and county level and the media. Uraia Trust also collaborates with the Government of Kenya at both the national and county level.
History
Uraia is the premier National Civic Education Organisation in Kenya. It has been in existence since 2000 and has been working to contribute towards the progress of Kenya through the development of Kenya’s most important resource – Kenyans. Uraia began its journey as the National Civic Education Programme (NCEP) when a formal partnership was struck between 70 Kenyan indigenous civil society organisations (CSOs) – who became implementing partners (IPs) – and a group of development partners who signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that outlined the basis for cooperation between the development partners as well as the joint funding mechanisms of the Programme.