Miembros / YWCA Kenya
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Metodología: Direct reach is based on programme monitoring records, including participant registers, training and workshop attendance, community and school outreach records, and activity reports across YWCA Kenya branches and projects. To minimize double counting, the figure uses the largest verified annual programme reach rather than aggregating participation across activities where individuals may have engaged more than once.
Acerca de la organización
The Young Women's Christian Association of Kenya is a national, women-led and membership-based organization advancing gender equality, women’s rights and the leadership and socio-economic empowerment of women and girls. Through its community-led approach, YWCA Kenya works with women, young women, girls and communities to identify priorities, shape interventions and lead solutions that respond to their lived realities.
Grounded in feminist and rights-based principles, the organization promotes bodily autonomy, freedom from violence and discrimination, and the meaningful participation of women and young people in decisions that affect their lives. Its programmes address gender-based violence (GBV), sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), climate justice and environmental sustainability, young women’s leadership, rights advocacy, economic empowerment, peacebuilding and community development.
YWCA Kenya combines its national presence and grassroots membership structures with partnerships involving civil society, government institutions, communities and development partners. This enables the organization to connect community experiences and priorities with advocacy, policy engagement and wider systems change, while strengthening local ownership and sustainability of interventions.
As part of the World YWCA movement, YWCA Kenya is connected to a global movement for women’s and young women’s rights and collaborates with more than 45 YWCA member associations across Africa. This provides opportunities for regional learning, joint advocacy and coordinated action on issues affecting women and girls.
YWCA Kenya’s programming is guided by its organisational Strategic Plan and designed to deliver measurable, sustainable and locally relevant results while contributing to national, regional and global gender equality priorities.
Proyectos destacados
State of the African Women Project
Right By Her · 2017-2020
YWCA Kenya led the African implementation of the EU-funded State of the African Woman (SoAW) Campaign, coordinating 16 YWCA member associations to advance women’s rights through the Maputo Protocol and Maputo Plan of Action. The initiative strengthened WRO advocacy, mobilized young women champions, built cross-sector alliances and contributed to influencing 30 policies across Africa.
Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy and Accountability
YW4A · 2021-2025
The Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy and Accountability (YW4A) programme, funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, strengthened young women’s leadership and women’s rights organisations to advocate against SGBV across Kenya, South Sudan, Egypt and Palestine. Working with progressive faith allies, the programme expanded young women’s participation in civic and policy spaces and strengthened advocacy for gender-just laws and policies.
USAID Elevate Voice Yake
Elevate Voice Yake · 2023-2025
Implemented with support from USAID, Elevate Voice Yake strengthened the agency of adolescent girls and young women to exercise their rights and live free from SGBV. The initiative combined community-led action, positive masculinities, economic empowerment and engagement with government, civil society and other stakeholders to strengthen GBV prevention, response and accountability.
Deepening African Youth, Women and Indigenous People’s Engagement in Post Paris Climate Dialogue Processes.
Voices for Just Climate Action · 2023-2025
YWCA Kenya implemented the Deepening African Youth, Women and Indigenous People’s Engagement in Post-Paris Climate Dialogue Processes project, strengthening their capacity and participation in climate policy and decision-making. The project supported community-led advocacy and engagement in national and global climate processes, including UNEA-6, UNFCCC COP28 and COP29.