Ms. Dekha Ibrahim Abdi This is Me

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1. 1. DAI : About DAI : Newsroom

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   Published on: 12/19/2007   Last Visited: 7/13/2008

   Dekha Ibrahim Abdi—a key DAI staff member on the recently completed Conflict Prevention, Mitigation, and Response Programs in East and Southern Africa (CPMR-ESA)—has been awarded a 2007 Right Livelihood Award "for showing in diverse ethnic and cultural situations how religious and other differences can be reconciled, even after violent conflict, and knitted together through a cooperative process that leads to peace and development."
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   Born in Wajir, Kenya, Ms. Abdi has dedicated herself to building peace for the past 17 years, the last four of those years on CPMR-ESA, a project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and implemented by DAI.Among her many contributions to CPMR-ESA, she was a Learning and Policy Advisor to the Coalition for Peace in Africa (2003-2005), and she advised the Somali Cluster in the project's CPMR Program (2005-2007).
   
   For a fuller account of Ms. Abdi's career and the basis for the award, click here.

2. 2. The Coexistence Initiative

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   Published on: 9/22/2007   Last Visited: 9/22/2007

   Dekha I. Abdi
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   Dekha Ibrahim Abdi National Coordinator, Nomadic Pastoralists Development Initiative, KenyaDekha Ibrahim Abdi is a peace and development worker from the Wajir District of Northern Kenya.She was the founding member and coordinating Secretary of the Wajir Peace and Development Committee.She has worked in various capacities as head teacher, coordinator of peace and development issues and trainer in both peace and development, within Kenya and internationally.She is now working part-time with COPA/RTC as the Policy and Learning Advisor coordianting the Linking Practise to Policy Project Linking for African communities of peacebuilders In Kenya, Uganda, Somaliland, and South Africa.

3. 3. The Coexistence Initiative

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   Published on: 2/7/2006   Last Visited: 2/7/2006

   Dekha I. Abdi
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   Dekha Ibrahim Abdi National Coordinator, Nomadic Pastoralists Development Initiative, KenyaDekha Ibrahim Abdi is a peace and development worker from the Wajir District of Northern Kenya.She was the founding member and coordinating Secretary of the Wajir Peace and Development Committee.She has worked in various capacities as head teacher, coordinator of peace and development issues and trainer in both peace and development, within Kenya and internationally.She is now working part-time with COPA/RTC as the Policy and Learning Advisor coordianting the Linking Practise to Policy Project Linking for African communities of peacebuilders In Kenya, Uganda, Somaliland, and South Africa.