Women’s Capacity Development and Leadership in Kenya
THRIVE Regional Outreach
2024 - 2025
overview of thrive outreach
Going beyond Nairobi, THRIVE is currently extending outreach to selected marginalized counties in Kenya, including Kilifi, Lamu and Turkana with CSR / institutional support.
With relevant sponsorship, THRIVE plans to implement intensive and exciting short training courses at a county level targeting key women members of local civil society (or regional government). THRIVE’s 4 day training course ‘En-Gendering Development In Fragile Contexts: Pathways Towards Women’s Inclusion and Leadership’ , includes modules such as gender transformative approaches, feminist leadership, digital inclusion and climate change adaptation.
·THRIVE aims to formulate long-term partnership(s) with businesses that are interested in women’s capacity development and leadership in Kenya.
The total basic cost of a regional 4-day training is 3,000 USD (excl. local in-kind contribution).
strategy for women’s regional development in kenya
To date, THRIVE’s professional development training for women in aid and development has been heavily focused in Nairobi or online. THRIVE is now keen to extend outreach to selected marginalized counties in Kenya, with sponsorship by interested businesses and institutions. This includes Lamu and Kilifi counties, and possibly Meru or Turkhana.
Kenya ranks among the Medium Human Development Countries but has a Gender Inequality Index (GII) of 0.545, placing it 134 out of the 189 countries and still a ‘poor performer’ in key gender measurements. [1]
Outside of Nairobi, there is significant disparity in regional development and inclusion, with some counties lagging behind in multiple dimensions. One of the most unequal counties in the country, Kilifi county suffers from low development and gender indicators, and has a higher than national average GII of 0.67.[2]
Persisting inequality between men and women is driven by uneven opportunities for education, conservative social norms and poverty. This influences all aspects of local development including family health, social development and economic growth.
sponsorship and long-term partnerships with interested businesses / organizations
To support women in marginalised regions in Kenya, THRIVE is now keen to formulate long-term partnership(s) with progressive and keen institutions and/or business(es) that are interested in inclusive and sustainable development, particularly related to local women’s participation and leadership.
If your business or organisation would like to get involved, please kindly get in touch with us directly for more information and/or our concept note: info@thriveforchange.org / +254 701 778971
[1] https://ieakenya.or.ke/blog/gender-inequality-in-kenya-through-the-gii-lens/
[2] https://data.humdata.org/dataset/kenya-gender-inequality-index-per-county/resource/f90dd15e-42ce-42a7-a088-907ab067b051