Project Title
Global Partnership, Local Leadership: Supporting Resilience in Children and Families Across Generations
Partners
Family for Every Child members:
Semya Kazhdomu Rebenku (SKR), Kyrgyzstan
Muhammadiyah, Indonesia
Voice of Children (VoC), Nepal
Taller De Vida, Colombia
Uyisenga Ni Imanzi (UNM), Rwanda
Funded by
UCL Global Engagement Funds (GEF) &
Family for Every Child
Dates
September 2024 - November 2025
Project Team
Kirrily Pells, project lead
William Gali, Family for Every Child
Chaste Uwihoreye, project co-lead
Kristýna Skriczka, research assistant
About this project
In “Global Partnership, Local Leadership” we built on the success of the Nkwihoreze project in Rwanda and explored how could the Nkwihoreze approach work in other countries and communities.
This project was a collaboration between University College London (UCL) in London, Uyisenga Ni Imanzi (UNM) in Rwanda, and several partner organisations from Family for Every Child (Family), a global alliance of organisations working to keep children safe and connected to their families.
Local leadership was essential to the success of this project because communities know their own stories, traditions, and challenges best. Exploring the adaptation of the Nkwihoreze tools with strong local input, offered an opportunity to test the tools’ capacity to reflect the values, languages, and lived experiences of the people who will use them: local practitioners, families and children.
Watch this space for further details about this project-galleries and reports coming soon.
Past event:
Practice Exchange webinar
In collaboration with Family for Every Child, the Nkwihoreze team was proud to present this interactive 90-minute session bringing together practitioners to share their experience of using the Nkwihoreze creative tools and how these can be adapted to work intergenerationally with vulnerable families in different social and cultural settings. We will be sharing a short video and summary on this page soon. Thank you to everyone who joined us!
“The Nkwihoreze tools enable healing...in a fun way."
Ita Rahma, Vice Secretary, Social and Welfare Council of Central Board of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia
[after Nkwihoreze workshop] Participants asked: "When can we do this again!"
Kriti Bhattarai, Senior Program Manager, Voice of Children, Nepal
“Nkwihoreze tools could be helpful for many groups, including in school, for social workers and in the community.”
Anara Kalilova, Director of the "Semya- kazhdomu rebenku" public foundation, Kyrgyzstan