2026 Planning Baraza Sets the Year's Priorities

Residents, elders and volunteers gathered to review 2025's work and set priorities for the year ahead.

The Details

Camp Nuo opened the year with a community baraza attended by residents, village elders and volunteers to review 2025's work and set priorities for 2026. The meeting followed the same format used every January: a short report-back on the previous year's dispatches, followed by open floor time for residents to raise concerns.

Attendees flagged continued river pollution, gaps in maternal health awareness and youth idleness during holidays as the top three concerns for the coming year — feedback that directly shaped this year's program calendar, including the decision to run a third digital literacy cohort.

Organisers describe the baraza as the single most important meeting on Camp Nuo's calendar, since it is the mechanism that keeps programs led by what residents actually say they need rather than by what volunteers assume.

"Registration wasn't the finish line, it was permission to build something that would last." — A founding volunteer, Camp Nuo

Why It Matters

Formal registration and transparent, regularly published reporting are what allow Camp Nuo to build lasting partnerships with schools, chiefs, health volunteers and donors — relationships that a purely informal volunteer group would find far harder to sustain over multiple years.