Women's Rights Fund Partners in Kenya

Elevate Her champions the rights of women and girls with disabilities. They do this through advocacy, community engagement, education and sports.

Elevate Her strive to ensure that women and girls with disabilities have equal access to all aspects of life, enabling them to excel and be celebrated for their abilities.

Teenseed Africa was founded in 2006. It supports teen and young women in Nairobi’s informal settlements and rural areas of Homa Bay, Kisumu, Busia, and Migori Counties.

Teenseed addresses sexual and gender-based violence through:

• advocacy for sexual and reproductive health rights
• education support for survivors
• economic empowerment for young mothers
• efforts to end period poverty

The organisation also engages men and boys in combating rape culture.

BECI was founded in 2023 to support women, young people and marginalized groups in low-income settlements. The organisation promotes gender equality, reproductive health, economic empowerment and climate action through skills building and community-driven solutions.

Desire Youth Initiative (DYI) promotes gender and social justice by empowering women, girls and marginalized groups.

DYI work across five key areas:

• addressing gender-based violence through awareness and survivor support
• promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights through youth mentorship
• fostering peace through dialogue
• supporting economic empowerment through skills training
• advancing climate justice through conservation efforts

Jafari Jata Solution was founded in 2020. The organization supports the LGBTQI+ community, migrant workers and trafficking survivors through outreach, verified alerts, education and peer engagement.

Inspired by lived experience, JJS works to close protection gaps through ethical storytelling, advocacy, and survivor-led action. The name blends African and Arabic roots, symbolizing hope, movement, and justice. JJS envisions a world where migration is informed, safe, and dignified for all.

Mombasa Young Mothers (MYM) was founded in 2022, by young mothers who experienced stigma, discrimination and isolation simply because they became mothers at a young age. To respond, they began meeting in informal listening circles, safe spaces where they could talk openly without judgment. Today, MYM has grown to reach hundreds of adolescent and young mothers across Mombasa, providing mentorship, skills training, and safe spaces for healing.

Restoring Dignity Foundation (RDF) was established in 2020 in Korogocho, Nairobi. RDF advocates for access to essential rights including health, housing, education, food, water and social security. The foundation focuses on empowering the elderly, women, girls and persons with disabilities in informal settlements.

WETEC was founded in 2015 by young women professionals. It promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights for teenage girls and young women in Kenya.

AWAK promote women’s rights and build the skills and knowledge of women and young women farmers. The organisation champions people having enough to eat, secure rural livelihoods, nature-positive innovations and effective urban food systems. AWAK was a partner of the Women's Rights Fund from 2021 to 2025.

AWEIK is a women-led umbrella organisation working in the extractives sector, addressing challenges faced by women engaged in oil, gas, mining and energy industries. They were a partner of the Women's Rights Fund from 2021 to 2025.

IREMO is based in Marsabit county, one of the poorest regions of Kenya. They work to improve the living conditions of rural women, young people and people with disabilities.

IREMO address female genital mutilation issues, as well as responding to the severe drought, advocating for representation of women in political leadership and supporting the county government in the development of gender policies.

IREMO were a partner of the Women's Rights Fund from 2021 to 2025.

Usikimye means ‘do not be silent’ in Swahili. They work on prevention and response to sexual and gender-based violence.

Usikimye run safe houses and an emergency hotline for survivors of violence, as well as several programmes including support to teenage mothers and online counselling. Usikimye was a partner of the Women's Rights Fund from 2021 to 2025.

Badili Africa was founded in Nairobi in 2013. The organisation creates informal and innovative spaces for political discussion for women, such as beauty spas and tea parties. Some of their members ran for office in the Kenyan elections of 2022. Badili Africa was a partner of the Women's Rights Fund from 2020 until 2024.

Dhobi Women Network have championed the rights of women and girl domestic workers in Nairobi since 2010.

They specialise in labour rights for local and migrant domestic workers, as well as combatting gender-based violence in the workplace (through a reporting system for violence survivors, connecting women to hospital treatment and more).

Dhobi Women Network were a partner of the Women's Rights Fund from 2020 until 2024.

Wangu Kanja Foundation works to end sexual violence in Kenya. It received a one-off grant for work with WRF partners on the prevention of violence in the run up to the Kenyan elections in August 2022. This funding enabled our partners to undertake preventive actions with communities and authorities and reduce women’s vulnerability.