In March 2021, CBR was appointed to serve as Fund Manager for Rapid Response Funds (RRF) for IGAD CEWARN for 4 years (till March 2023). As the Finance and Administration Unit (FAU) for the RRF funds, CBR receives and transmits to the CEWERU unit in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and its preferred implementing stakeholders...Read More

 On behalf of the Conflict Early Warning and Response Unit (CEWERU) in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is also the National Focal Point on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALWs), CBR has since 2002, been serving as the IGAD’s Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism (CEWARN) 1st ever National Research Institute(NRI). CBR served in...Read More

 Centre for Basic Research led a consortium of like-minded organization in the East African region to implement an applied research project titled: ‘Empowering Vulnerable Women in Eastern Africa through innovative savings Schemes. The project which was funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC), ended in May 2021. This appliedresearch project entailed collection of data to determine...Read More

Centre for Basic Research completed the implementation of an applied research project titled: ‘Enhancing Agribusiness EconomicOpportunities of Rural Women and Girls’. The project which was funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC) ended in September 2021. The overall objective of the project was to contribute to the improvement of the technical capacity and economic status...Read More

Throughout 2021, CBR continued implementing a research titled: ‘Countering Backlash: Reclaiming Gender Justice’. This research project which started in January 2020, seeks to unravel the nature of forces that were pushing back to reverse many of the gains that had been made for women’s rights and gender equality, as well as to shrink civic space...Read More