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There is high insecurity in Pokot and Turkana County due to banditry, cattle rustling and clan/tribal conflicts, mostly triggered by competition for scarce natural resources. This hinders development and access to basic social services and increases the vulnerability of the local communities.
Women of Pokot origin bear the brand of conflict among the pastoralist communities of northern Kenya. The pastoralist heavily depends on livestock resources as their key sources of livelihood.
The pastoralist women of Pokot origin represent the majority of impoverished people in Kenya, as they often have fewer resource with which to weather shocks, rebuild, or adapt.
These women face conflict associated with natural resources that displaces them from their homes and puts them on arms way, loss of livestock, hunger, rape and death. Scarcity of pasture and water, which is a manifest of the effects of climate change, negates the attempts made at national and local levels to resolve conflicts by disarming the communities who own firearms.
The national government attempt to address the conflict with use of military police to disarm the bandits and the warring communities have done little than cause more harm to women and girls. PRDP advocate for the resolution of conflicts through nonviolent means and the reduction, if not the elimination, of military force and aggression. PRDP seeks the attention of communities to accommodate women in conflict resolution, peace education and climate change mitigation strategies and poverty reduction.