Jane Murutu

Gender,policy and Governance practitioner

[Jane Murutu @MurutuJane]

@ntvkenya @NationFmKE @MariamBishar @EricLatiff @OfficialJMbugua Tribal profiling tears at the fabric of our nation and denies us the dignity we all https://t.co/kvi47tkMWS Jane Njambi Khaindi Murutu,I stand for Love,unity, justice,and a Kenya where everyone belongs.

[MIDRIFT HURINET @Midrifthurinet]

#IkoKaziKe

MIDRIFT HURINET is inviting all qualified persons to apply for the role of External Evaluator for the Building Active Youth Leadership through Non-Formal Learning (B.A.L.L) Project.

Deadline for applications: July 1st, 2026

Full job details:
https://t.co/P5XtKga5IJ

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Those attacking Arsenal fans for turning up in huge numbers in Nairobi but not showing up for protests are missing the bigger point.

People do not fail to protest because they love suffering. They fail to protest because Kenyans are not angry enough, not desperate enough and not organized enough to sustain serious resistance. That is the uncomfortable truth.

A football victory march is easy because it is joy, identity, banter, music and vibes. A protest is risk, police, tear gas, arrest, job loss, injury and sometimes death. You cannot compare the two as if people are choosing Arsenal over liberation. People are choosing comfort over sacrifice because the pain has not yet crossed the point where staying home feels more dangerous than going to the streets.

That is why these 8am to 6pm CBD protests, almost arranged like someone is reporting to a job, will never shake a regime properly. People come, shout, run from police, take photos, trend for a few hours and go back home before darkness. The government simply waits them out.

A real people’s movement is not an office-hours activity. It is not something you squeeze between breakfast and supper. It is built when the anger is deep, widespread, fearless and impossible to manage with police trucks and press statements.

So stop blaming Arsenal fans. They have only exposed what we already know. Kenyans can gather when they want to. The problem is that, politically, the country is still not angry enough.

[Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Kenya @KAS_Kenya]

Freedom remains humanity’s highest value✨.- Konrad Adenauer, 1948
Celebrating 150 years of Konrad Adenauer.
#KonradAdenauer

[Jane Murutu @MurutuJane]

@KAS_Kenya @katakaf @Kiprosigei @VZillah69289 Congratulations! Go ahead and make everyone proud with your value based leadership.

[Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Kenya @KAS_Kenya]

Congratulations to the newly elected leadership of the Adenauer Kenya Network!🎉

[MIDRIFT HURINET @Midrifthurinet]

The participation of youth champions from the Civil Peace Service (CPS) of GIZ project in the Public Baraza held in Barut Ward highlights a strategic, community-focused approach to peacebuilding, accountability, and inclusive governance.

Bringing together residents from Parkview, Barut Centre, and Kigonor village, areas directly impacted by ongoing human–wildlife conflicts near the park, the forum established a structured platform for dialogue that balanced environmental conservation, community livelihoods, and security concerns.

Led by Nakuru Town West Sub-County Deputy County Commissioner Rashid Kwanya and supported by key stakeholders, including the Kenya Wildlife Service team and the Sub-County Security Team, the engagement demonstrated how coordinated institutional leadership can promote transparent communication and collaborative problem-solving.

Youth voices, led by Youth Champion Bonface Manyasi, were not just peripheral but central: through evidence-based presentations on local security issues, challenges in national ID issuance, access to health services, and the wider effects of conservation policies, young advocates positioned themselves as constructive partners in developing solutions.

By connecting concerns about land displacement, fishing activities, environmental stewardship, and compensation frameworks to broader discussions on accountability and public participation, the forum reinforced the importance of youth in electoral reforms and civic oversight, ensuring governance remains responsive and inclusive.

Effective communication in this context, as shared by Faith Chege from GIZ,German International Cooperation Kenya, went beyond simply sharing information to create measurable impact: increased awareness of rights and responsibilities, stronger trust between communities and security agencies, and a renewed commitment to peaceful engagement as the foundation for sustainable coexistence.

@zfdnews @InteriorKE @NPSOfficial_KE

[MIDRIFT HURINET @Midrifthurinet]

In commemorating International Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (PCVE) Day 2026, @Midrifthurinet, with support from @yadeneastafric via the @NLinKenya facilitated a forward-looking dialogue that brought together Youth Champions, Playmakers (youth coaches) under the Sports for Peace Programme, and university students to examine the changing dynamics of youth involvement in preventing and countering violent extremism within local communities.

Recognizing young people as innovators, peacebuilders, and key partners in security and development, the forum promoted a comprehensive agenda combining leadership development, digital literacy, inclusive participation, and mental well-being with community-based prevention strategies and formal youth-government partnerships.

Through reflective discussions on the local PCVE landscape, insights from MIDRIFT HURINET’s Nakuru projects, and exploration of youth-led governance pathways, participants discussed how misinformation, social exclusion, inequality, and identity vulnerabilities can be effectively addressed through dialogue, mentorship, and collaborative civic action.

The engagement emphasized inclusive platforms that amplify marginalized voices, especially young women and underrepresented groups, while fostering resilience, empathy, and responsible digital citizenship.

The expected outcomes included stronger youth ownership, improved media literacy, enhanced social cohesion, and the institutionalization of early-warning systems and policy-participation mechanisms that position youth as co-creators of sustainable peace.

After the forum, participants pledged to use existing networks to spread PCVE awareness, leverage social media for responsible messaging, implement community outreach, and actively engage in both formal and informal community safety structures, working together to turn local grievances into opportunities for dialogue, innovation, and long-term social stability.

@KOICAKenya @NCIC_Kenya @UNDPKenya @NCTC_Kenya @theGCERF @InteriorKE

[MIDRIFT HURINET @Midrifthurinet]

The ongoing joint training on Access to Information compliance, organized by @katibainstitute in Nakuru, reflects a deliberate shift from viewing access to information as just a statutory goal to seeing it as a part of everyday governance practice rooted in duty, systems, and trust.

By bringing together county officials, civil society, media, and community actors, the forum enhances practical adherence to the law, clarifies institutional responsibilities, and builds shared capacity for timely, lawful, and people-centered disclosure.

The engagement promotes coordinated SOPs and ICT-enabled workflows that minimize discretion, fragmentation, and delays, while empowering rights-holders to interpret and use information responsibly within data protection frameworks.

The training clarifies the difference between access to information and public participation, emphasizing information as a public asset that supports accountability rather than a privilege kept behind gates.

It prepares institutions to anticipate and respond to emerging challenges, misinformation, high-demand periods, electoral pressures, and digital risks through early detection, adaptable technology, and issue-based coordination.

The outcome is a more resilient, transparent, and trusted access-to-information system that enhances civic confidence, bolsters responsive county governance, and promotes informed, peaceful, and inclusive participation in Nakuru.

[MIDRIFT HURINET @Midrifthurinet]

The civic engagement activity currently led by @Midrifthurinet in Nakuru Town East demonstrates a clear shift toward positioning youth as active protectors of peace, accountability, and democratic integrity.

Rooted in the realities of communities facing political competition, economic challenges, and social diversity, the initiative recognizes that sustainable electoral participation begins long before polling day through trust, information, and inclusion.

By empowering trained youth champions and community members with civic knowledge, conflict-sensitive engagement skills, and an understanding of electoral reforms, the program enhances local capacity to promote voter registration, informed participation, and peaceful coexistence.

Beyond aiming for numerical targets like turnout, the activity fosters a deeper democratic outcome, empowering young people to serve as connectors between institutions and citizens, advocates for transparency, and defenders of non-violent political expression.

MIDRIFT HURINET emphasizes that peace and security are not imposed from above, but cultivated within communities; When youth are entrusted with responsibility, supported to lead ethically, and enabled to turn civic awareness into collective action that protects both the vote and the social fabric that sustains it.

@zfdnews

[MIDRIFT HURINET @Midrifthurinet]

The impact of early pregnancy is seen in interrupted schooling, heightened health risks, and long-term financial strain. Highlighting these realities helps us improve prevention efforts and create safer, more supportive environments for adolescents.

#16DaysOfActivism #ACTtoEndViolence #NoExcuse

@DignityDK @NGECKenya @denmarkinkenya @tendasasa

[Linus Kaikai @LinusKaikai]

TO THE MANY who inspired, guided and supported me throughout this long journey, here’s my eternal gratitude and a big THANK YOU to you all.

[MIDRIFT HURINET @Midrifthurinet]

The launch of the Children Service Month at the Nakuru Law Courts became a collective reaffirmation of Kenya’s commitment to a justice system grounded in dignity, protection, and child-centered care.

@Midrifthurinet’s presence, represented by its psychologist, Millie Rono, highlighted the indispensable role of mental health and psychosocial support in safeguarding the well-being of children involved in legal processes.
By offering pro bono services at the Children’s Court and the Nakuru Juvenile Remand, she demonstrated how healing, safety, and emotional stability are as essential as legal remedies in a child’s journey through justice.

The @Kenyajudiciary objectives,fast-tracking children’s cases, promoting ADR, strengthening multi-agency collaboration, enhancing reintegration, ensuring representation, and institutionalizing a child-friendly justice culture, aligned seamlessly with @Midrifthurinet purpose-driven programming and ongoing research partnership with the University of Edinburgh and the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection Unit on child sexual exploitation and abuse.

The study, spanning seven counties, reflects a deeper interrogation of how survivor journeys and case management systems can be improved to deliver justice with compassion.

As the sensitization walk wound through Nakuru’s CBD, leaders across the justice chain reinforced this shared vision:
Magistrate Emmanuel Suita highlighted the urgency of child-rights awareness and the value of alternatives to adversarial trials.
Chief Magistrate Elizabeth Juma reassured children that their voices and welfare remain a judicial priority, and High Court Presiding Judge Hellen Ong’undi affirmed that the courts remain open and ready to protect every child.

Together, these commitments illuminated a justice ecosystem striving not only to resolve cases but to humanize the process, where legal efficiency meets psychological safety, and where every child’s dignity becomes the accurate measure of justice.
@DignityDK

[MIDRIFT HURINET @Midrifthurinet]

The remarks by Tabitha Ndanu, the @APSKenya National Coordinator for Peacebuilding and Community Policing, offered a grounding reminder of how strategic partnerships can redefine the future of policing in Kenya.

Her comments highlighted that the collaboration between @Midrifthurinet and the @APSKenya is a purposeful investment in building safer, more accountable, and more connected communities.

She emphasized that this partnership strengthens national efforts in peacebuilding and conflict transformation by integrating multisectoral approaches that enhance community trust, early warning systems, and proactive problem-solving.

Tabitha further encouraged Peace Monitors to extend the knowledge and skills gained beyond the training room, transforming them into catalysts of professional growth and institutional change.

Cascading this learning, she noted, is central to cultivating a policing culture rooted in accountability, human dignity, and collective responsibility, ensuring that reforms take hold as shared norms shaping a more secure and resilient society.
@DignityDK @denmarkinkenya

[MIDRIFT HURINET @Midrifthurinet]

@Midrifthurinet’s knowledge-exchange mission in Northern Uganda, supported by @DignityDK and hosted by @actvuganda, illustrates how learning across borders can sharpen the link between knowledge and practice while repositioning communities as active agents of accountability and peacebuilding.

Through joint reflections in Kampala and subsequent engagements in Karamoja and Kaabong, the teams explored how cultural norms, justice systems, and lived experiences shape security, governance, and social resilience.

The discussions revealed that while Karamoja’s conflict landscape is marked by youth unemployment, pastoral traditions, GBV, land scarcity, and cross-border insecurity, it is also sustained by strong structures of community influence, elders, leaders, herders, reformed raiders, and women’s groups, whose roles, when strengthened, can anchor accountability and locally owned peace.

@Midrifthurinet’s involvement emphasizes inclusive, purpose-driven communication, ensuring that lessons learned from @actvuganda's community trust-building, livelihood support, and torture-survivor rehabilitation are adapted to Kenya’s own peace and accountability ecosystem, especially in cross-border counties facing similar vulnerabilities.

By engaging communities directly, centering youth voices, and fostering cross-cultural dialogue, the mission affirms that sustainable peace requires shared learning, community-led visioning, and systems that acknowledge people as co-creators of security, justice, and transformation.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Suluhu cannot escape from this. This massacre was planned for a very long time and places mapped! People killed in houses and streets and thrown into ditches 95% with chest and head shots. We have not made enough noise. This is the pressure point! #TanzaniaMassacre

[MIDRIFT HURINET @Midrifthurinet]

The session on Monitoring, Documenting, and Reporting highlighted the vital role of evidence-based policing.

This approach advances accountability, transparency, and sustained peace within communities.

For the Peace Monitors, it was not merely a technical discussion.
Instead, it was a call to reimagine documentation as a tool for transformation.
Documentation bridges the gap between community realities and institutional response.

Officers reflected on how systematic monitoring and accurate reporting help identify emerging conflicts.
These practices track patterns of violence and evaluate the impact of peace interventions.
As a result, actions are both responsive and grounded in truth.
By embedding these practices into daily policing, officers enhance institutional memory, learning, and accountability.
Their observations yield actionable insights that strengthen peacebuilding efforts.

The discussions emphasized that adequate documentation means police share facts openly with the public.
When officers report clearly, community members see how their concerns are being addressed and how their input shapes outcomes.
Monitoring and reporting also help officers identify issues, track progress, and work more effectively with other agencies.

For the Peace Monitors, these tools show where they make progress and let residents speak up.
@APSKenya @InteriorKE @DignityDK @denmarkinkenya

[MIDRIFT HURINET @Midrifthurinet]

In her remarks, Tabitha Ndanu, HSC, emphasized a powerful truth at the heart of sustainable peace and security, no single institution can build peace in isolation.

Speaking during the training on peacebuilding and conflict transformation, she stressed that multisectoral coordination is a shared responsibility across institutions, sectors, and communities.

Her message to the peace monitors was both practical and visionary.
She explained that the pillars of capacity building, institutional strengthening, proper tooling and kitting, and joint trust-building activities form the foundation of an accountable and people-centered police service.

These components, she noted, breathe life into police reforms.

They translate policy into practice, structure into service, and presence into trust. In her view, effective collaboration among the police, civil society, and community actors bridges the gap between authority and empathy.

This ensures that peace is co-created rather than imposed.

Her call resonated as a reminder that absolute security is born of cooperation.
With empowered officers and engaged citizens working side by side, resilience is nurtured, accountability is upheld, and policing becomes a collective journey toward national stability and social cohesion.

@APSKenya @InteriorKE @denmarkinkenya

[MIDRIFT HURINET @Midrifthurinet]

The Youth Champions’ Dialogue Campaign on Voter Registration, held under the NOREC Programme, empowered youth leaders from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania to collaboratively address barriers to youth participation in governance.

The main message: informed, inspired, and united youth are catalysts for accountable elections and vibrant democracies.

Through critical discussion, participants identified key issues that silence youth voices, including a lack of awareness, limited access to registration, and delays in ID issuance.

They emphasized that truly inclusive electoral processes require transparency and accountability, grounded in constitutional mandates.

The forum demonstrated that when young people share regional strategies and knowledge, they generate innovative solutions to persistent democratic challenges.

The campaign revealed that peace and accountability emerge from informed participation and empowered citizens, with the youth leading these efforts across borders.

@NorwayMFA @NorwayInKenya @JusticessP @_CSVR

[Wangu Kanja Foundation @WanguKanjaF]

IEBC ignored the constitutional spirit of Chapter Six and abandoned survivors who had spoken out against John Chebochok. By clearing him, IEBC not only failed survivors but also weakened public trust in Kenya’s democratic institutions.

#HoldIEBCAccountable

[Jane Murutu @MurutuJane]

@ntvkenya @NationFmKE @MariamBishar @EricLatiff @OfficialJMbugua Tribal profiling tears at the fabric of our nation and denies us the dignity we all https://t.co/kvi47tkMWS Jane Njambi Khaindi Murutu,I stand for Love,unity, justice,and a Kenya where everyone belongs.