ANTI-DISCRIMINATION
Advancing women’s and girls’ rights to land, safety, bodily autonomy, and public participation, with a focus on widows, girls affected by poverty, and those navigating harmful traditional practices.
Women’s Dignity & Land Rights
Securing land, livelihood, and legacy for rural women and widows.
This flagship program empowers women especially widows and women-headed households in rural and extractive zones to claim and defend their right to land, inheritance, and housing under both statutory and customary law.
Key Actions:
- Legal aid and paralegal support for succession, disinheritance, and eviction cases
- Community sensitization forums and cultural dialogues challenging harmful practices like widow eviction and wife inheritance
- Organizing and sustaining rural women’s collectives (e.g., Windows Collective in Migori) for advocacy and economic resilience
- Policy advocacy for gender-sensitive land governance and legal pluralism
Impact Goal:
To dismantle structural land-based exclusion and restore autonomy, dignity, and security to women in rural Kenya.
Intersectional Equality
Promoting political visibility and leadership for excluded identities.
We work to address the layered discrimination faced by widows, grandmothers at the margins of formal representation. The program nurtures inclusive civic spaces, participatory governance, and intersectional feminist leadership.
Key Components:
- Political education and movement-building workshops for informal and rural settlements, those coming out of crime and recovering from problematic drug use
- Legal and psychosocial support for survivors of gender-based hate crimes and institutional exclusion
- Civic education campaigns that integrate gender, disability, and drug policy reform narratives
- Partnerships with county governments to create inclusive civic participation mechanisms and gender-responsive budgeting platforms
Impact Goal:
To promote structural inclusion, representation, and power-sharing for historically marginalized women and gender-diverse individuals.