To build the advocacy capacity of adolescent girl-focused civil society organizations and facilitate a shared girl-focused advocacy agenda by leading a community of practice in Nairobi.

To provide safe spaces for rural adolescent girls to promote girls’ and women’s education, health and rights in Kuria, Kenya.

To build the social and economic capital of adolescent girls through youth-led community outreach, safe spaces, psychosocial support and training on reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, life skills and entrepreneurship.

To advance the natural resource rights of Lake Turkana communities through national and international advocacy to prevent construction of the Gibe III dam.

To strengthen the capacity and support the growth of Kenya's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement by initiating efforts to decriminalize homosexuality, document and report human rights violations, increase access to LGBTI-friendly health services, and build partnerships and alliances.

To build the long-term self-sufficiency of unaccompanied refugee girls in Nairobi by providing case-management services, basic education, life-skills training, vocational training, financial literacy and income generation through a cooperative.

To promote and defend indigenous women's land rights by educating communities about Kenya's new land bill, engaging in dialogue with large landowners and advocating for legal reforms.

To enhance the capacity of Kenya Natural Resources Alliance to coordinate, build the capacity of and elevate the voices of community-based organizations focused on natural resource rights; and to petition the Kenyan parliament to enact a new mining bill that respects the land and mineral rights of indigenous communities. 

To support the advocacy efforts of the Kisumu Brain Trust, a community of practice of adolescent girl-focused organizations in western Kenya, and to enable Kisumu Medical Education Trust to continue its Sisterhood for Change program.

To create community awareness about the natural resource rights guaranteed under Kenya’s new constitution, revive several stalled court cases against the salt mining companies and network with other organizations working on resource rights issues. This grant will also enable MRF to rehabilitate a large parcel of land that the community won in a previous legal action so that it can be used for sustainable livelihood activities. The organization’s long-term goal is to force the salt mining companies to rehabilitate and return illegally acquired land to the community.