Rise & Lead Academy
Feminist leadership development, public participation, confidence building, advocacy training, and grassroots political education.
Programs and movement initiatives
Our Impact
Over the years, CGHRD-Kenya has: Built and strengthened a growing national network of grassroots defenders and feminists; Expanded organizing in rural and informal settlement communities; Supported communities during social, political, and humanitarian crises; Created spaces for feminist political education and leadership development; Strengthened solidarity across movements and regions; Amplified grassroots voices in policy and advocacy spaces; and Contributed to building stronger community-led responses to injustice.
Leadership • Organizing • Justice
Programs rooted in lived realities.
Building power, solidarity, healing, participation, and collective transformation.
Core programs
Each initiative strengthens women, communities, and grassroots defenders socially, economically, emotionally, and politically.
Sister Circle Mentorship
Intergenerational mentorship, collective healing, community belonging, emotional wellbeing, and solidarity spaces for women and girls.
Women in Enterprise Lab
Entrepreneurship support, digital visibility, financial resilience, and sustainable livelihoods rooted in dignity and empowerment.
Community Justice Network
Rights awareness, referral pathways, community protection, documentation, and grassroots advocacy systems.
Strategic pillars in practice
A simple pathway from organizing to leadership, protection, advocacy, and sustainable transformation.
1
Organize
Women and defenders enter through outreach, referrals, events, circles, and community networks.
2
Learn
Participants build knowledge through rights awareness, feminist political education, SRHR, and advocacy sessions.
3
Protect
Communities strengthen support, safeguarding, healing, mental wellbeing, and referral systems.
4
Lead
Women step into visible leadership, policy advocacy, community accountability, and long-term organizing.
Partner with programs that build movements.
Support grassroots organizing, feminist education, protection, healing justice, advocacy, and sustainable community resilience.