Tunawiri- National Campaign (Digital)

This project was designed to empower communities by advancing gender and social justice in Africa through programmatic and organizational support rendered to community-based organizations’ working to address sexual and gender based violence. The aim was to provide community-based actors with the leadership, and operational and structural support they need in order to maximize their impact. The project was designed in response to the rising cases of gender based violence and human rights violations that occurred during the COVID 19 pandemic.

Some of the project’s achievements include:

  1. Offered support to grassroots organizations’ working to address police brutality in Kenya due to the rise in cases during COVID 19 response curfew and lockdowns. We co-organized the #EndPoliceBrutalityKe and #BlacklivesMatterKe protests that mobilized more than 600 people in direct non-violent action. A petition was effectively presented and read in parliament with the security committee committing to present a response. This was done in partnership with Amnesty International (Kenya), Usikimye.
  2. Mobilised grassroots organisations in the development and presentation of an online petition. The petition received over 1000 signatures and the campaign contributed to commitments by the ministry of education to ensure GBV messaging is incorporated in education curricular. The campaign also included awareness raising and engagement that reached 3 million people on and off social media.
  3. Developed an online psycho-social support program that offered free counselling to more than three hundred (336) survivors of sexual and gender based violence survivors by working with volunteer counsellors.
  4. Developed a safety planning tool for survivors of domestic violence.
  5. Updated the sexual and gender based violence service providers database for access to community based organisations to ease the process of referral.
  6. Assisted member grassroots organisations in crowd funding for key programs. Specifically, the Mathare Social Justice Centre and Defenders Coalition. We raised USD 5,500 to support the bail and fund of activists that were arrested as they marched against police brutality in Kenya.
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