Annual Consultative Meetings

The Annual General Meeting is a place to meet and dialogue on a national level for all our diocesan CIRDE coordinators, to create synergize and to revise the past year. CIRDE is grateful for all its participants in the past years.

The first Annual General Meeting (AGM) took place in November 2020. Since then, every year CIRDE is hosting the AGM in Nairobi, which was renamed into Annual Consultative Meeting (ACM) in 2022. During these meetings, the CIRDE coordinators from all Dioceses are invited to share their reports on interreligious and ecumenical activities in the respective dioceses. Furthermore, the ACM is always used to provide capacity building to the participants.

The training topics included, besides others:

• Fratelli Tutti and its message for IRD and global solidarity;
• Introduction to Monitoring & Evaluation;
• IRD as a Space for Women;
• Introduction to Proposal Writing;
• Politicization of religions;
• Interreligious Dialogue in Eastern Africa;
• Practical examples of praying together;
• Youth Radicalization & Extremism;
• Women & Interreligious Dialogue in the Context of Christian-Muslim Dialogue in Africa;
• The Role of Youth in Interreligious Dialogue from an Islamic Perspective;
• Environment & Interreligious Dialogue;
• Human Trafficking;
• Pope Paul VI and the Ecclesiology of  Dialogue;
• Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Document, Constitutional Implications and the Role of the Church;

CIRDE appreciates the facilitators we had the pleasure to have: The Institute for Interreligious Dialogue and Islamic Studies (IRDIS) of the Tangaza University College (2020-2022) as our long and close partner, Ms. Florence Iminza from the KAG East University (2022), Ms. Nuru Issa from the Youth United for Peace Initiative (2022), Rev. Fr. Charles Odira from the Catholic Diocese of Homa Bay (2022), the Coast Interfaith Council of Clerics (CICC) (2021), AGIAMONDO (2021), Dr. Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen from the Technical University of Mombasa (2021), Mr. Cyprian Nyamwamu, Governance and Dialogue Advisor (2020) and Mr Francis Mutuku from the Counter Human Trafficking Trust East Africa (2020).