Rooted in Change: Community Processes Driving Gender Justice

In Kenya, being born a woman or a girl often means starting life from a position of disadvantage. It means navigating structural, cultural, and economic barriers that limit access to education, healthcare, and political and economic participation. It often means being denied the power to make decisions about one’s own body, one’s time, and one’s future. Yet it also increasingly means that women and girls are at the heart of a profound transformation, one that begins within communities and reaches all the way to institutions.

This report tells that story: years of fieldwork, of listening, of building alliances, learning from mistakes, and celebrating achievements. It gathers practical approaches, lessons learned, and visions for the future. It reflects a long and complex journey in which gender equality has never been treated as an isolated topic, but as a lens through which all our work is understood. Today, with our Kenya Gender Programme, this approach finds its full expression.