Integration of Key Population curriculum into the pre-service Police Training Curriculum

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This project aims to improve policing practices and inclusion of the law enforcement agencies in Key Population HIV programming in Kenya.

Objectives

  • Develop KP module within the Kenya Police pre-service.
  • Include law enforcement-specific critical indicators in the annual performance contracts of the senior law enforcers.
  • Train police recruits to understand key populations, their rights, and the link between policing practices, KPs, and HIV.
  • Increase law enforcers’ responsiveness towards violence, stigma, and discrimination against KPs.
  • Ensure institutionalization and sustainability mechanism of KP programming into the law enforcement agencies.

The project uses a multi-sectoral approach by engaging the National Police Service as a key stakeholder through their AIDS Control Units (ACUs). The project expects to:

  1. reduce law enforcement perpetrated violence against KPs,
  2. improve access to health and justice services for KPs.
Project Initiated 2020

Project Initiated 2020.

Partnerships

NASCOP and the National Police Service with funding support from the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA).