 What's up guys and welcome to yet another episode of Buzzard Stars right here on Nespian Buzz. My name is Ms. Kithingi and today I'm pleased to talk to the UNDP that is the United Nations Development Programs, sorry, the resident representative, Madame Mandisa. Oh my God, the other name is quite hard. Maybe you can tell us your name. Good afternoon Betty. My name is Mandisa Mashalogo. I'm the resident representative acting of UNDP Kenya. All right, perfect. Now she was the guest speaker for today's launch of Let Peace Win campaign and I would like to know on an individual level, why is this campaign very important to you? As a development practitioner and an international civil servant of the United Nations Development Program, that works towards the SDGs of a country. Ensuring that a country is peaceful and can focus on the sustainable development agenda is paramount. So for me as an individual, the fact that we can contribute to this wonderful campaign that is targeting 75% of the population of this country to make sure we let peace win and can make sure that all parts of society have the SDGs as our compass so that we can have this country for future generations. That's why I'm so passionate about it. Wow, now let's talk about what you're representing UNDP. Where is it important for the organization to be part of this campaign? Well, as I said, we are the development wing of the United Nations system as a whole and part of our mandate is really to ensure that we promote inclusion, ensure that the inequalities are reduced and people are not susceptible to the various shocks and vulnerabilities that we have within the development agenda. So that's our overall mandate as an organization. So governance, such critical issues is an area in which we have supported programmatically ever since we were part of the Kenya's working system. Okay, now let's talk about the youths because I mean 75% of youths in this country is quite a big number. What is the role of youths especially during now this election period? What is their role? Well, I think the fact that as you say 75% of the population being voters themselves but also being champions and ambassadors for peace and making sure that we really focus on the development agendas and safeguarding the development gains of this country. So we are really trying to make sure that they are working for peaceful messaging and making sure that we always reflect on the positive and also mitigate any sort of hate speech or any insightful kind of communication. And just say that, you know, elections bilanoma. Yeah, oh, okay, elections bilanoma for sure. Now, creatives, you know, I'm part of a creative industry and when you mentioned that creatives during your speech today, you know, I was touched because you seem to be very passionate about them. And I'd like to know, do you feel actually creatives are well appreciated in this country as they should? Well, you know what? We hosted the All Africa Resident Representatives cluster in February. And so that's 45 resident representatives of UNDP in this country and we had 10 amazing youth that just poetry and in the section it was like talking about peace, talking about development and it was so moving, you know, the way you can use words and the passion of the youth. So honestly, I have to say that we in UNDP Kenya decided that we're going to focus on using this very influential group. It's not something that we traditionally did here but you can see in the launch of this campaign we're saying, you know, what poems do you have for us? What songs do you have for us? What can we do to influence the positive and peaceful messaging? So yes, and I think I really loved what Rhyme TK9 said and really, you know, living without peace is like having your favorite song without the beat. So I just took that to heart and I'm like, well, I still have the beat in me. So let's just make sure we continue to promote peace for Kenya. Yeah, yeah. Okay, for sure. Now, your last words to the youths because they need to know something. What are your words to them? I think there's only one thing I can say to all of the youth out there, let peace win. Oh, okay, okay. All right, all right. Thank you so much for talking to us and indeed, let peace win. Thank you very much. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.