Mission
AFOSC is a community based organization based in Wajir and Mandera County of Northern Kenya, a non-profit entity working for the empowerment of nomadic communities at community level on disaster mitigation and preventions. Among the many issues that AFOSC addresses within its strategy includes high level of illiteracy, poverty, poor health services, water shortages, poor sanitation and environmental degradation.
It's part of our core objectives and in line with our policies to work on DRR at community level and country level. The benefit this offers to our organization is that it adds value on what we are already doing in terms of carrying out country assessments on literacy and numeracy in the whole country and build our capacity. Our focus over time has been working with communities, generating evidence on issues affecting the vulnerable while promoting evidence based research. As a learning organization, we have a pool of knowledge generated within our network of non-state actors in areas dealing with water, sanitation, hygiene and most important education.
Carrying out community based survey on DRR called views from the front line.
A member of Global civil society Network for Disaster Reduction based in United kingdom
http:www.afosc.org/af2
Advocacy programm
Develop, update periodically and widely disseminate risk maps and related information to the general public and communities at risk in an appropriate format.
Provide easily understandable information on disaster risks and protection options, especially to citizens in high-risk areas, to encourage and enable people to take action to reduce risks and build resilience. The information should incorporate relevant traditional and indigenous knowledge and culture heritage and be tailored to different target audiences, taking into account cultural and social factors
Research on education literacy and numeracy.
Voluntary Commitments
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.