SAUTI Kenya is a leadership program designed to strengthen the role of women and youth in advocacy. This initiative works towards building sustainable county-focused capacity of women led civic society actors.  Our advocacy efforts are centered around four thematic areas i.e. Climate change, peace security and governance, poverty eradication and health.

Cohort 1: Strengthening the role of women in peace and governance-Kisumu, Nairobi, Mombasa

This was an initiative that worked towards building sustainable county-focused capacity of women-led civic society actors, female student leaders, community influencers, and common interest groups that focus on peace and counter-radicalization for effective promotion of human rights and conflict management in Mombasa County, Kisumu County, and parts of Nakuru County, Kenya. The project was led by a team of women leaders (US embassy program alumni) and like-minded partners with a passion to effect change in Kenya’s governance. The project managed to train 60 grassroots women leaders in effective advocacy and campaigning, advocacy communications, social entrepreneurship & organizational sustainability, and theatre for community engagement. As a result, hundreds of community members were impacted through peace focused communication and campaigns, short films and theatre.

Cohort 2: Strengthening the role of women in climate change mitigation

The main objective of the project was to work with Kenyan women and communities to address climate change by increasing awareness and use of clean domestic/ energy in rural Kenya while also offering options for economic advancement and empowerment. The project identified sixty (60) women specifically women who run CBOs, Chama leaders, women in agriculture and farmer associations, female community influencers in the target counties with potential or engaged in part in effective advocacy efforts in the community and equipped them with skills on effective advocacy and entrepreneurship, specifically the making, use and sale of briquettes as a business for self-reliance by end of the project. 600 women group members through were reached through cascade trainings by the trained leaders on clean energy for domestic use ensuring 2400 people access to clean energy through the use of briquettes. The project was led by US Kenya Exchange Alumni and was implemented in Kericho, Kakamega and Kisumu counties.