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Saferworld wins BOND International Development Award

13 May 2014

Saferworld’s project to reduce election violence around the 2013 Kenyan national elections has been awarded a BOND International Development Award for innovation and collaboration.

The winners of the UK’s first international development awards were presented by Rt. Hon. Justine Greening, Secretary of State for International Development, at a ceremony in Saddlers Wells, London. Entrants to the awards submitted short videos to illustrate positive collaborations, the theme of this year’s awards.

Saferworld’s entry highlighted the innovative ways our project in Kenya helped ensure peaceful elections by bringing communities, peace, security and election management actors together in 'hotspot' areas likely to experience violence. These 'peace task forces' worked to build relationships, strengthen preparedness and coordination, and react rapidly to signs of increased tensions, to support peaceful, free and fair national polls. The judges said Saferworld’s film “powerfully illustrated how communities, local authorities and security providers can work together to solve joint problems once trust has been established”.

Watch the film, “What we need is peace”

Introducing the awards, Secretary of State Justine Greening said: “The winners of Bond’s first ever international development awards showcase some of the amazing work being done by UK civil society organisations all over the world.”

Other finalists in the large organisation category were BBC Media Action and EveryChild. The awards are an initiative of BOND, the UK membership body that unites over 400 development organisations, and celebrate the innovative and exciting work by British international development organisations.

Find out more about our work in Kenya.

“Saferworld’s film powerfully illustrated how communities, local authorities and security providers can work together to solve joint problems once trust has been established”

Awards judges