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What is Uchaguzi:

Uchaguzi is an Ushahidi deployment to monitor the Kenyan general election on March 4th 2013.

Aim:

The aim of Uchaguzi is to help Kenya have a free, fair, peaceful, and credible general election in 2013.

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Significance of Kenya 2013:

Kenya will be holding its first election since the new (2010) constitution. Ushahidi started with the post-election violence in 2008. Since that time, we have deployed for the Ushahidi post-election violence in 2008 and the 2010 Kenya Constitution. Last fall, the Standby Task Force collaborated with the Ushahidi team as a simulation for 3 constituency by-elections.

Ushahidi has built partnerships with local civil society organizations, official NGOs, governments and PACT (local election monitoring groups.). We will be launching for the Kenya elections. There is an expectation that there may be some election-related disturbances.

The key Uchaguzi partnerships are:

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