Flagship Initiatives

Programmes & Platforms

A snapshot of the ecosystems Morris has helped shape, convene or push forward across the East African Community and beyond.

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EAC Youth & Child Policy, WPS & YPS frameworks

Regional social sectors & peace/security

Supporting the design and implementation of regional policies that anchor youth, gender, children and peace & security within the EAC architecture.

Highlights:

  • Involved in the evolution and implementation of the EAC Youth Policy, Child Policy, Gender Policy, Persons with Disabilities Policy and related frameworks.
  • Co-leads or supports work on regional Women, Peace & Security (WPS) and Youth, Peace & Security (YPS) frameworks, including action plans, monitoring tools and reporting into AU systems.
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EAC Raising the Flag Project & Awareness Hub

Civic awareness & youth engagement

A youth-led concept to build an EAC civic awareness hub – combining storytelling, digital tools and offline engagement.

Highlights:

  • Designed as a platform for young people to understand, question and own the EAC integration story.
  • Links symbolic acts (raising the EAC flag) to deeper work on civic education, youth participation and policy literacy.
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East African Youth Capacity Building Program (EAYCBP)

Youth leadership & fellowships

A comprehensive regional fellowship and capacity-building architecture for young East Africans engaged in governance, peace, social policy and entrepreneurship.

Highlights:

  • Includes calls for fellows and host institutions, mentorship guidelines, codes of conduct, selection and assessment tools, and full communication and branding packages.
  • Anchors youth work within EAC structures, while allowing room for experimentation, peer learning and long-term networks.
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Childcare, ECD & social protection in EAC

Children, ECD & care systems

Framing childcare and ECD as public goods, not private burdens, within EAC policy and programme work.

Highlights:

  • Contributed to regional ECD situation analyses, scorecards and implementation guidelines under the Nurturing Care Framework.
  • Advocates for integration of childcare in broader social protection and labour agendas, including recognition of unpaid care and the social workforce.
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Women's economic empowerment & cross-border trade

Gender & economic justice

Working with EAC gender and private sector directorates to centre women in intra-EAC trade and entrepreneurship.

Highlights:

  • Engages with platforms such as the East African Women in Business Platform and Women CEOs fora to spotlight cross-border traders and service providers.
  • Pushes for solutions around informality, compliance barriers, simplified trade regimes and digital trade opportunities.
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ECE, harmful practices & AU accountability processes

Child protection & accountability

Engagement with continental processes on harmful practices (FGM, child marriage) and accountability frameworks, linking AU mechanisms with regional work.

Highlights:

  • Draws on thematic studies, AU accountability frameworks and regional consultations to strengthen EAC's own child protection and EVAC architecture.
  • Emphasises the place of RECs as conveners, accelerators and mutual accountability spaces for Member States.
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Skills, labour migration & TVET (AU & EAC)

Skills, labour & mobility

Work on skills mobility partnerships, labour migration policy and continental TVET strategy – linking EAC experiences into AU frameworks.

Highlights:

  • Engages with AU, IOM, GIZ, ILO and others on skills recognition, qualifications frameworks and diaspora skills.
  • Contributes to the conceptual structure and implementation plan for the AU Continental TVET Strategy and labour migration platforms.
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Social enterprises & experiments

Ventures & experimentation

Parallel to institutional work, Morris nurtures ventures that test ideas on the ground: honey value chains, research & advisory, menstrual health and youth internships.

Highlights:

  • Savanna Hive: a honey and beekeeping ecosystem exploring livelihoods, value addition and cross-border trade in East Africa.
  • Socionest: a research and advisory "laboratory" for working papers, concept notes, policy briefs and academic outputs on social policy and integration.
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Peace & security: APSA, FEMWISE, youth mediators

Peace & security architecture

Contributing to the EAC's peace and security architecture with a gender and youth lens, from mediation networks to preventive diplomacy.

Highlights:

  • Involved in establishing regional and national FEMWISE (Women Mediators) chapters and youth mediation platforms, linked to the AU's APSA.
  • Works on frameworks such as the EAC Panel of Eminent Persons, Preventive Diplomacy Framework and Peace Support Operations.