ECONOMIC JUSTICE
Economic justice is the core programme of BEACON and has various elements that include creation of awareness, information, research and advocacy.
Under Economic Justice programme, there are several projects namely

  1. Budget/Public funds Monitoring project
    This project seeks to enhance the awareness of different actors on the national budget processes and how they can actively and constructively participate in the process with a view to making sure that the budget priorities being set reflect the priorities of wider population and that the budgets on these priorities are utilized on the intended sector in order to make poverty history
  2. Coffee project
    This project seeks to addess trade injustices within the coffee sector especially in Kenya where the ordinary coffee farmer does not reap from his produce because of the many middle men involved.
  3. EPAs project

GOOD GOVERNANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
This programme seeks to achieve three objectives:

  •  Enhanced participation in human rights and governance through capacity building
  • Promotion of good governance and human rights by information sharing; and 
  • Advocacy targeting state actors and institutions.

BIBLE PEDAGOGY
Develop and strengthen skills to discern the relationship between faith, theology, political and economic practices that oppress, exploit, control, dehumanise and dispossess people.

Undertake a re-examination of the spiritual and moral underpinnings that currently underlie the principal approaches to policy development relating to the social, economic and human development at various levels.

PEACE BUILDING AND RECONCILIATION
The programme aims through working with faith-based and other civil society organisations to support BEACON members and others to mediate, facilitate and promote peace within their respective constituencies in the region as a whole.

HIV-AIDS AND GENDER MAINSTREAMING PROGRAMME
The situation of HIVand AIDS has worsened in all the countries in the region over the last decades or so. BEACON believes that given the scale of the epidemic in the region, it is no longer simply a health issue but a development crisis. BEACON aims to mainstream gender in all its activities. Using this unifying approach will enable communities to forge a way forward in influencing policies that govern the economies of their respective countries

POLICY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS PROGRAMME
The purpose of the policy research and analysis programme is to carry out research to identify gaps and possible interventions in economic policies and to enhance the participation of the public in policy processes including the budget process, policy monitoring with focus on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) at national and constituency levels by availing information through research.

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