these four who had experi- enced her kind of challenges as well as others who had never faced such physical challeng- es. This experience was ther- apeutic for her. As time went on, she blossomed in the art of spoken word, thanks to the support she received from the bootcamp.
Through the project implementing period, Metta was impressed by the component of Voice Linking & Learning because it allowed all Voice grantee partners to learn/share with one another. She also added that CHIAs used this component to link and learn with their work partners to exchange, and document ideas and suggestions from government sectors, particularly healthcare for HIV services. Apart from that, the Voice Annual Linking & Learning was an event that CHIAs team and grantee partners looked forward to each project year, to meet and have fun while learning. Grantee partners and other LGBTI organisations/CSOs have profited greatly from CHIAs’ Voice-funded project’s networks. Staff ability to write reports, as well as online and offline facilitation skills, have significantly improved.
for recognition as a Kenyan tribe. This petition was successfully presented to government stakeholders on local and national levels. A key win for the project was the rejuvenation and the self- identity of the Yiaku as a people with a unique culture, history, and livelihood. The Yiaku Laikipia Trust wants to continue working with key decision-makers at the national level, as a distinct coding and recognition of a tribe can only be achieved through the office of the president.
The Yiaku Laikipia Trust’s project focused on creating awareness of the recognition of Yiaku people of Mukogodo as a Kenyan tribe. This wasn’t the case before, so the project created an opportunity for the Yiaku people to be counted and included in the 2019 census in Kenya. The collected data laid a basis to demand official recognition. A petition was drawn up by the chiefs and community opinion leaders highlighting the issues faced by the Yiaku as a people and showing their need
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The project “Women’s Political Participation for Inclusive Development” (PPFDI) aimed to make social inclusion and the promotion of women’s leadership a reality in all areas of development. It encouraged a dynamic of community mobilisation at the grassroots level aimed at recognising and creating the conditions for the exercise of women’s rights as citizens in general and their political rights in particular. This necessarily involved strengthening women’s leadership on the one hand, and on the other, strengthening opinion leaders as strategic allies, especially men, to increase their gender sensitivity for more successful development. It envisaged creating a critical mass for change to improve women’s representation in decision-making bodies at household, community, local and national levels.
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Figure 16: Nana, a rightsholder from Niger
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