Kenya & Ethiopia: When Women Intervene: The Quiet Peacebuilders of South Omo

Mar 10, 2026 | Daisy Cheruto Kosgei and Dorina Prech
International Alert
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How do you build peace in a place where climate change is making it harder to find water and grazing land? Where communities have lived side by side for generations, but also fought over the same resources? This is the question at the heart of International Alert’s work in the Kenya-Ethiopia borderlands.

Since 2024, we have been working alongside communities in this region through a project that looks at the links between climate, conflict and gender equality. We are working together with our local partners TUPADO and the Ethiopian Institute of Peace.

At the end of February, we travelled to Kangaten in southwestern Ethiopia to see how the project is going and to meet the people at the heart of it. The best part of our visit? Sitting down with local women and hearing their stories firsthand.