HEALTH · GENDER-BASED VIOLENCEGarissa · 26 Nov 2018

A signature against gender-based violence.

At the Garissa Child Protection Unit, Fountain of Hope witnessed the signing of an MoU between the County Government of Garissa and the National Government — an agreement on Gender-Based Violence, for a county that shelters its survivors in that very building.

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“I witnessed the signing of an MoU between the County Government of Garissa and the National Government regarding Gender Based Violence at the Garissa Child Protection Unit.”

26 Nov 2018 · @Fountain_FOH on X

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On 26 November 2018, at the Garissa Child Protection Unit, two levels of government put pen to an MoU on Gender-Based Violence. Fountain of Hope was there to witness it — the agreement between the County Government of Garissa and the National Government, signed in the building that shelters survivors of violence.

The story, in a frame

The pen that moves a whole response.

An MoU names a commitment in writing. When it is signed inside a child protection unit — and witnessed by the organizations working on the ground — the signature becomes a promise that survivors can hear.

Frame 01 / 01 The signing of an MoU on gender-based violence at the Garissa Child Protection Unit

The signing — County Government of Garissa and the National Government, together on Gender-Based Violence.

Garissa Child Protection Unit · Nov 2018

— The signature —

Two governments, one unit, one promise.

The County Government of Garissa and the National Government signed the MoU regarding Gender Based Violence — at the Garissa Child Protection Unit, the safe haven for victims of violence in the county.

Fountain of Hope witnessed the signing — on the ground, the day the two governments agreed it.

26 Nov 2018

Garissa, Kenya · Child Protection Unit

County Government of Garissa · National Government · Fountain of Hope

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The discussion, unpacked

A safe haven, and a signature.

What a memorandum of understanding means when it is signed inside the place that shelters survivors.

01 What was signed

A memorandum of understanding between the County Government of Garissa and the National Government, regarding Gender Based Violence — an agreement that commits both levels of government to respond to GBV together, rather than apart.

02 The day, in facts

The agreement

An MoU on Gender Based Violence — County Government of Garissa and National Government.

The place

The Garissa Child Protection Unit — a safe haven for victims of gender based violence.

The witness

Fountain of Hope witnessed the signing, 26 November 2018.

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I witnessed the signing of an MoU between the County Government of Garissa and the National Government regarding Gender Based Violence at the Garissa Child Protection Unit.

Fountain of Hope · on X, 26 Nov 2018

03 Why a signature matters

An MoU is how two governments hand each other authority for a shared problem. Signed inside a child protection unit, it grounds that agreement in the loudest possible reminder of who the response is for: the children and women who walk through that unit’s doors. Fountain of Hope witnessed the moment so the community would know it happened — the same day it gathered with partners at the unit, a safe haven for victims of gender based violence.

The day in photographs

Where the pen came down.

The signing of the MoU on Gender-Based Violence at the Garissa Child Protection Unit, 26 November 2018.

In the record

What the record shows.

The documented record of the Garissa Child Protection Unit — the building where this agreement was signed and where women with young children have a dignified stay — and of the county's GBV advocacy.

Gender lensed RMNCAHGarissa County

Launch of 16 Days of Activism Against GBV

Date: Nov. 2018
Reach / Impact: The OCS, Gender Department and various stakeholders pledged to advocate against GBV in Garissa County.

Child ProtectionGarissa Remand Prison

Establishment of a child protection unit

Date: Nov. 2018
Reach / Impact: 20 women with children under 4 years have a dignified stay at the Child Protection Unit.

Documented in Fountain of Hope's portfolio of interventions.

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