2021-2022

myvotekenya campaign

Through the campaign, OAY partnered with IEBC and Twaweza East Africa to run a national poll on voter perceptions before elections. (Attach the pdf) .

Programmatic area: Governance, Democracy and Civic Engagement

Overview

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01 Summary

In the run up to 2022 elections, OAY ran myvotekenya campaign aimed at promoting youth participation and consolidating their voices around key issues affecting them, generating evidence on their perceptions, organising debates for candidates, running voter education, observing elections and promoting peace. The key advocacy tool developed included Timiza Ahadi Call to Action and peace pledge. (attach pdf). These
tools informed OAY’s collaboration with IEBC and other Election Management Bodies under 2022 IEBC’S Youth Coordinating Committee where OAY was a member.

02 Strategy

Through the campaign, OAY partnered with IEBC and Twaweza East Africa to run a national poll on voter perceptions before elections. (Attach the pdf).

03 Key Actions

OAY was accredited by IEBC as voter education provider and domestic lection observer. OAY deployed 30 election monitors across the country and Based on the issues documented, OAY built of youth groups to understand and engage in government
processes and coordinated county- and national-level engagement and advocacy around CIDPs and submitted memo for MTP4 to Vision 2030 and State Department of Youth.

04 Impacts

myvotekenya engaged over 100,000 youth, 40+ youth organizations, 30+ policy makers, 30 youth election observers and garnered over 500k digital impressions.