Halima Mohamed is the co-founder and Executive Director of Coast Education Centre (COEC). For the last 18 years, Ms. Mohamed has been at the forefront of agitating for the rights of women and girls at the grassroots level in Kenya and the East African Region.
Currently, she represents the civil society organizations of the Coast Region at the National Council for NGOs of Kenya as the Director. And a Director of International Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) under Peace and Security Pillar. Ms. Mohamed has been involved in various national and county processes to promote and protect women and girl’s rights. Ms. Mohamed’s work with women and girls in peacebuilding can be traced through the support groups she has formed for affected/traumatized women in violent extremism across the Coastal Counties and developed a trauma healing handbook to support affected women and girls in VE. Her P/CVE work has resulted in the successful development of the Coast Women CVE Charter that contributed to the Gender Pillar and Victims of Terror Pillar in the Refined National Strategy to CVE in Kenya. She has been part of the Advisory Council which developed GCTF Gender Toolkit. Ms. Mohamed has led a team of researchers in conducting a comparative study to understand why young women are joining Al-Shabaab at the Coastal Region and development of Mombasa County Land Policy, Mombasa Local Action Plan (MLUF) UNSCR 1325 and KIlIfi Local Action Plan (KLAP) UNSCR 1325.