Cohesion team must think outside the box

Coronavirus has disorganised the world, exposed limitations of human effort, and created a global “new normal” that is replacing the “old normal”. Anxiety stalks national environments as the epidemic assumes sense of permanence, forces countries to accept new realities and rethink positions on Covid-19.

Institutions are tasked to be innovative in handling national challenges in the “new normal” environment. One of those institutions the “new normal” challenges to rethink itself in Kenya is the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC).  It is not alone. This “new normal” is an outcome of widespread sense of fatalism and the downplaying of coronavirus seriousness. In part, this is because rising infections and death rates have numbed the collective sense of danger and people are learning how to live with the pandemic.