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Mombasa County, Kenya · Year One
Peponi Yetu
peponi — paradise · yetu — ours
A girl who has her own money has more than money. She has the power to say no.
Peponi Yetu is a community organisation forming in Mombasa. We work to prevent gender-based violence among adolescent girls and young women on the Kenyan coast — not by waiting for crisis, but by building a savings group, an honest conversation about power, and a real way to earn a living, together and at the same time.
What we do
Three things, delivered as one thing
Money on its own does not stop violence. In some households, a woman earning more is read as a threat, and the violence gets worse. The programmes that produced the largest reductions did all three of these together — so that is how we run it, from the first day.
A savings group that belongs to its members
A rotating savings and lending group, run by the girls and young women in it. Small weekly contributions, group-held funds, group-made decisions. It builds a financial cushion, and it builds the habit of collective decision-making that everything else rests on.
A curriculum about power, not just about risk
A structured gender-transformative curriculum running alongside the savings group — on consent, rights, negotiation, money inside relationships, and the norms that make violence feel normal. This is not an optional module. It is the part the evidence says the money will not work without.
A real way to earn, in Mombasa's actual economy
Vocational skills, apprenticeships and cooperative enterprise tied to work that genuinely exists here — the port, tourism, trades, services. An alternative income is only an alternative if someone will actually pay for it.
Why this approach
The evidence is strong. It is also conditional.
We chose this model because it has among the best evidence in international development for reducing violence against women — and because that evidence comes with a warning we take seriously.
Capital or income delivered on its own can sometimes increase conflict, where a male partner experiences it as a threat to his role as provider. The interventions that show large reductions pair the economic component with gender-transformative work, often engaging men directly. A study comparing Mombasa's own crisis-response centre against livelihood-based support found economic empowerment outperformed crisis response alone — while noting it is not, by itself, a cure.
Honesty about our place
We are new. The field is not.
COVAW has been doing this since 1995. CREAW since 1999. On the coast, Coast Women in Development has run the secretariat of the Pwani GBV Network since 2005. These organisations hold decades of donor trust and infrastructure that a new organisation cannot and should not pretend to match.
So we are not competing with them. We are asking to join the network as a specialist — bringing one thing the coast's existing actors do not currently centre: economic-empowerment-led prevention, delivered before crisis, for girls and young women navigating or at risk of transactional sex.
What Peponi Yetu does not do
Direct crisis response carries safety, legal and psychosocial obligations that a new, unfunded organisation cannot yet carry safely. We do not build a parallel version of it. We refer into the services that already exist, under formal agreement.
- No shelter or emergency accommodation
- No crisis hotline
- No emergency rescue or intervention
- No medical or forensic care
- No legal representation
Year One costs less than most organisations spend on a launch event.
Registering the organisation, running a genuine listening process, and getting the first savings group standing. That is the whole ask right now.
Who we are
A philosophy that refuses to treat joy as a reward
Peponi Yetu is built on a conviction that people deserve more than survival — and that the work of ending violence and the work of building a life worth living are the same work.
Vision
A world where nobody has to be extraordinary to live an ordinary life
We envision a world where every person has the freedom, dignity, safety, resources, belonging and opportunity to flourish — where justice, liberation, pleasure and human connection are understood as essential conditions of a good human life, not privileges reserved for the fortunate.
Marginalisation is not inevitable. People should not have to overcome extraordinary structural barriers merely to experience ordinary human things: to feel safe, to belong, to work with dignity, to access justice, to rest, to create, to take part in their communities.
Mission
Peponi Yetu works with individuals, communities and institutions — with particular attention to people experiencing marginalisation — to identify and challenge the structural conditions that produce inequality, violence and exclusion, while cultivating the knowledge, resources, relationships and opportunities people need to exercise their rights and flourish.
Peponizm
Root causes and root joys
Our organising philosophy holds that human beings deserve more than survival — they deserve the conditions to flourish. We pursue that through two questions, asked at the same time. Most organisations only ask the first.
Question one
Root causes
Why does suffering persist?
- Why does violence happen here, in this street, to these girls?
- Why does economic dependency endure across generations?
- Why does exclusion survive every intervention aimed at it?
- Who benefits from the way things currently are?
Question two
Root joys
What makes people flourish?
- What actually makes a person feel safe, not just be safe?
- What creates belonging strong enough to hold someone?
- What lets a community imagine a future worth wanting?
- What is any of this for, if not a life someone enjoys living?
A programme designed only against harm produces people who are safer and no happier. Our programmes are built to answer both questions — to reduce harm, and to actively build toward dignity, connection and joy. That means we measure whether girls feel they belong, not only whether they report fewer incidents. It is a lens few Kenyan gender-based-violence organisations name openly, and we intend to keep it.
Values
Eight commitments we can be held to
Every person possesses inherent worth. Nobody is reduced to a case file.
Confronting the systems and distributions of power that allow harm, not only individual wrongdoing.
Building people's power to change the systems around them, not only to survive them.
Seeing the whole person — across gender, class, disability, geography and migration status.
Yetu means ours. The people affected by a problem shape its solution.
Psychological wellbeing, rest and collective healing are not afterthoughts.
Joy, beauty and connection are part of what justice is for — not a reward that comes after.
Refusing to let the present define the limits of the possible.
Leadership
Lived proximity, held carefully
Peponi Yetu's leadership brings direct, lived proximity to the economic and safety pressures facing women and girls in coastal Kenya. That grounding shapes both how the programme is designed and whether the community trusts it. We treat it as a genuine organisational asset, not only a personal motivation.
It also carries a specific risk, and we would rather name it than have a funder find it. Leaders with lived experience often treat their own boundaries as less important than participants'. So structured supervision and peer support for everyone in direct programme delivery is standard practice from day one — not a special accommodation requested by someone struggling.
Safeguarding
We work with adolescent girls, including minors. These commitments are in place before the first session, not after the first incident.
- A written child protection and safeguarding policy, adopted before any programme contact with a participant under 18
- Informed consent from participants, and from a parent or guardian where a participant is a minor
- No photographs, names or identifying details of participants published anywhere — including on this website — ever
- A named safeguarding focal person, and a complaints route that does not run through the person a complaint might be about
- Structured clinical supervision for all staff and volunteers in direct delivery
- Referral, not retention: anything reaching crisis level goes to a partner equipped to handle it
Beyond year one
The organisation we are building toward is bigger than the one we are building first.
Our full framework recognises access to justice, disability inclusion, climate vulnerability and displacement, digital harassment, mental health and healing, stigma, and political marginalisation as interconnected threads of the same structural landscape.
We reach that vision deliberately, not immediately. Once the Year One programme is running, funded and showing results, we broaden in stages: deepening the Mombasa programme with disability-inclusive design and attention to climate-displaced households; converting to national Public Benefit Organisation status to access larger institutional partnerships; and over three to five years building toward advocacy, culture-change and movement-building work.
The organisation we are building first is the one Mombasa can trust, fund, and see results from within a year.
The need
What the numbers say, and what they leave out
We publish figures because funders and partners need them to assess us. We hold them carefully, because every one of them is a person who did not consent to becoming a statistic.
Kenya
The national picture
Mombasa
The picture on the coast
National averages hide what is specific about this city. Mombasa's economy runs on a port and on tourism, and both shape how economic need turns into exposure to violence for young women here.
That last finding is the hinge. If the violence is concentrated where economic need pushes girls into transactional sex, then a crisis service that waits for harm and then responds will always arrive after the fact. The intervention has to reach the economics — which is why Peponi Yetu's first programme is an income programme that takes violence seriously, rather than a violence programme that mentions income.
Who we serve
Adolescent girls and young women in one Mombasa community
Specifically: girls and young women who are economically vulnerable to — or already navigating — transactional and survival sex. Not because they are the only people harmed by gender-based violence on this coast, but because they are the group where an economic intervention has the clearest chance of preventing harm before it happens, and because the evidence for reaching them this way is strongest.
Year One works in one defined ward or community, chosen in the first month with input from existing coastal organisations. Narrow enough to be credible. Specific enough that funders, partners and the community itself can see exactly what we do.
We will not publish photographs of participants. We will not publish survivor stories, even anonymised ones, to raise money. We will not describe girls as helpless in order to make a funding case, and we will not use the language of rescue.
The reason is not squeamishness. Poverty imagery works on donors precisely because it strips people of authorship over their own story, and an organisation whose first value is human dignity cannot fundraise by contradicting it. Where we need to show the work, we will show the work — the group, the ledger, the workshop, the trade — with consent, and without faces.
Every figure on this page is traceable to a named, published source.
See the full evidence baseOur programme
One programme, three inseparable parts
A savings group, a gender-transformative curriculum, and a genuine alternative-income pathway — for one or two groups of 15 to 25 girls and young women, in one Mombasa community.
The model
What the programme actually consists of
Each component is doing a job the other two cannot do alone.
The savings group
A member-owned savings and lending group. Members contribute small amounts weekly, the group holds and lends its own funds, and members decide together how it is used. Two things come out of this: a financial buffer that makes leaving a dangerous situation possible, and a weekly structure of collective decision-making that the rest of the programme runs inside.
The gender-transformative curriculum
Structured sessions running alongside the savings meetings, covering rights, consent, negotiation, how money moves inside relationships, and the norms that make violence feel ordinary. Designed to engage men and boys in the community rather than work around them — because the evidence says the economic gain is what triggers backlash, and the curriculum is what defuses it.
The income pathway
Vocational skills, apprenticeship placements and cooperative enterprise, tied to work that actually exists in Mombasa's port, tourism, trades and service economy. We would rather place ten girls in real paid work than train fifty in a skill nobody here is hiring for.
Funders sometimes ask for just the savings component, or just the training. We will decline. The evidence base is specific on this point: economic support delivered alone has, in some studies, increased household conflict where a male partner reads a woman's income as a threat to his standing. The programmes that produced large reductions in violence — IMAGE among them — paired the economic component with structured gender work. Delivering half of this model is not delivering half the benefit. It may be delivering harm.
Theory of change
Listen → Understand → Empower → Connect → Challenge → Transform → Flourish
Our full model has seven stages. Year One responsibly delivers the first four. We are showing you the other three so you can see where we are going — and see that we know the difference between a plan and an aspiration.
Listen
A real needs assessment in one Mombasa ward, with girls and young women themselves — not a survey designed to confirm what we already wrote in a proposal.
Understand
Map local economic-vulnerability and transactional-sex patterns, in coordination with Coast Women in Development and the Pwani GBV Network, so we build on what the coast already knows.
Empower
Run the combined pilot: savings group, gender-norms curriculum, and a real alternative-income pathway, together, for one or two groups.
Connect
Formal referral agreements for crisis-level needs: Mombasa GBVRC for medical and psychosocial care, FIDA Kenya for legal aid, the police gender desk for reporting.
Challenge
Advocacy on the policy and enforcement conditions that keep the pattern in place.
Transform
Culture-change and movement-building work across the wider issue areas in our full framework.
Flourish
Peponizm in full: safety and joy treated as the same project.
Measurement
What we will count, and what we will admit
A first-year pilot with one or two groups cannot prove impact, and we will not claim it does. What it can do is generate honest operational evidence: did girls stay in the group, did savings accumulate, did anyone reach paid work, did the curriculum change what participants say about power and consent, and did referrals actually function when they were needed.
We will document what does not work with the same care as what does. An organisation that only publishes its successes is not producing evidence — it is producing marketing, and the sector already has enough of that.
Year One indicators
- Group retention and attendance across twelve months
- Total member savings accumulated, and loans issued and repaid
- Number of participants entering apprenticeship or paid work, and still in it at three and six months
- Change in participant-reported attitudes on gender norms, consent and financial control, measured at entry and exit
- Referrals made, and referrals that resulted in the participant actually receiving the service
- Participant-reported sense of safety, belonging and wellbeing — the Root Joys side, measured, not assumed
Full monitoring framework and data-protection approach available on request. Participant data is held under Kenya's Data Protection Act, 2019.
Referral pathway
When something is beyond us, it goes to someone equipped for it
Medical & psychosocial
Mombasa Gender-Based Violence Recovery Centre, Coast General Hospital — under formal MOU.
Legal & access to justice
FIDA Kenya — under formal MOU for legal aid and representation.
Reporting & protection
Police gender desk, and the county's Tononoka GBV Situation Room for coordination.
Year one
The plan, the governance, and the things that could go wrong
Twelve months, one community, one programme. Published in full — including the risk register, which most organisations keep in a drawer.
Roadmap
Twelve months, in order
- Confirm the specific Mombasa ward or community
- Recruit to the 10-member CBO threshold with genuinely invested local members — not names collected to clear a legal requirement
- Register the CBO with Mombasa County's Public Service Administration, Youth, Gender & Sports department
- Open contact with Coast Women in Development and the Pwani GBV Network as a future specialised partner
- Adopt the safeguarding, child protection and complaints policies before any participant contact
- Run a genuine listening process with girls and young women in the target community
- Sign formal referral MOUs with Mombasa GBVRC (medical and psychosocial) and FIDA Kenya (legal aid)
- Open a dedicated organisational bank account in the CBO's name, with two signatories
- Design the combined pilot — savings group, gender-transformative curriculum, and one concrete alternative-income pathway
- Scope to one or two groups of 15–25 girls and young women
- Secure apprenticeship or placement commitments from Mombasa employers before the training starts, not after
- Apply to the African Women's Development Fund Small Grants Programme
- Apply to Urgent Action Fund–Africa
- Approach Kenyan corporate CSR partners with a coastal presence
- Track and respond to the UNFPA 2026 East and Southern Africa call
- Run and monitor the pilot, documenting outcomes honestly — including what does not work
- Publish a first annual report and financial summary
- Begin national PBO registration in parallel, once a funding relationship is secured
Governance
How we are registering, and why
Kenya's nonprofit regulatory framework changed substantially between 2024 and 2026 and parts of it remain contested in court. We engage qualified Kenyan legal counsel ahead of each registration milestone rather than relying on template documents.
| Structure | Decision | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Community-Based Organisation Community Group Registration Act, 2022 | Chosen — Year One | County-level registration through Mombasa County. Roughly KES 1,000–5,000, typically completed in about five working days, minimum ten resident members. Proportionate to what we are actually doing in Year One. |
| Public Benefit Organisation Kenya's post-2024 successor to the NGO framework | Planned — 12 to 18 months | Regulated by the PBO Regulatory Authority. Roughly KES 25,000 plus a KES 1,000 name reservation, typically 3–5 months in practice. We register once programme results, a functioning board and at least one funding relationship exist — not before. |
| Society | Ruled out | Simplest to register, but has no separate legal personality: it cannot own property, sign contracts, or hold a bank account in its own name. Unworkable for an organisation that needs to receive grants. |
| Trust | Ruled out | Designed for holding and managing assets — an endowment, land, a scholarship fund — rather than running an active service programme. |
| Company Limited by Guarantee | Held open | Remains a future option if earned income becomes a deliberate, central part of our funding model. The 2026 PBO Regulations now also permit PBOs to run income-generating activities and reinvest the proceeds, which narrows that advantage. |
As of this writing, only around 8,458 of an estimated 14,700 existing Public Benefit Organisations had completed Kenya's 2026 compliance transition, with default notices in circulation and litigation over parts of the framework unresolved. We are entering this environment with our eyes open, and we would rather a funder read that here than discover it later.
Partnerships
Where we sit in Mombasa's existing infrastructure
We do not build parallel crisis-response capacity. We refer into it, under formal agreement.
Coast Women in Development & the Pwani GBV Network
Network membership — soughtEstablished in 2005, CWID serves as secretariat of the Pwani GBV Network, the coordinating body for organisations addressing gender-based violence across coastal Kenya. We intend to engage early as a specialised member, contributing our prevention-focused programme to the network rather than duplicating its coordination role.
Mombasa GBV Recovery Centre
Referral MOU — planned, months 1–3Based at Coast General Hospital. Our referral partner for medical and psychosocial needs that reach crisis level, beyond our programme's scope.
FIDA Kenya
Referral MOU — planned, months 1–3Our referral partner for legal aid and access-to-justice needs.
Mombasa County Government
Coordination, not fundingWe engage the Youth, Gender & Sports department and the existing Tononoka GBV Situation Room for coordination, referrals and legitimacy. We deliberately treat this as a coordination relationship rather than a funding source: the department's own budget execution has run at 23.5% of plan in the most recent reporting period, and building a funding model on that would be irresponsible.
Risk register
Six things that could go wrong, and what we do about each
Published deliberately. A new organisation that cannot name its own failure modes has not thought hard enough about them.
Ten interconnected issue areas and a seven-part programme model are a decade-two ambition, not a Year One deliverable.
A single programme focus in Year One — the combined GBV and economic-empowerment model — expanding deliberately from there.
COVAW and CREAW nationally, and CWID and the Pwani GBV Network on the coast, hold decades of donor trust and infrastructure a new organisation cannot immediately match.
We position ourselves as a specialised partner inside the existing network rather than a rival to it.
A genuine asset that carries a specific failure mode: a founder's or staff member's own boundaries treated as less important than participants'.
Structured supervision and peer support for all staff in direct programme delivery from day one, as standard practice rather than a special accommodation.
Shelters, hotlines and emergency intervention carry safety, legal and psychosocial obligations a new, unfunded organisation is not equipped to carry safely.
We build no parallel crisis infrastructure. We maintain formal referral partnerships for anything reaching crisis level.
Kenya's nonprofit regulatory environment is in active transition, with default notices and unresolved litigation part of the current landscape.
Qualified legal counsel engaged ahead of each registration milestone rather than reliance on template documentation.
Especially likely in mission-driven organisations built around an expansive long-term vision.
A disciplined Year One scope is treated as protecting the team, not only the funding case.
Full document
The complete strategic plan
Nine pages, thirty-one sources, prepared August 2026.
Read the full strategic plan (PDF)Support us
Money, work, and things money cannot buy
Peponi Yetu has no funding yet. What we need in the next twelve months is small, specific, and mostly not glamorous.
Peponi Yetu is in the process of registering as a Community-Based Organisation in Mombasa County. Until that registration completes and a dedicated organisational bank account is open in the CBO's name, we are not accepting public donations into any personal account.
That is a deliberate choice, and it costs us money in the short term. Funds received into an individual's account cannot be audited, cannot be properly separated from personal money, and would compromise every governance commitment on this page. If you want to give now, use the pledge form below and we will contact you the week our organisational account opens — with the registration certificate attached.
Give
Ways to give
Kenyan givers, use M-PESA. Everyone else, use bank transfer. Every route lands in the same organisational account.
- Open M-PESA on your phone and choose Lipa na M-PESA, then Pay Bill.
- Enter the paybill number above.
- Enter the account number above — this is how we identify your gift.
- Enter the amount, then your M-PESA PIN.
- Keep the confirmation SMS. It is your receipt, and we reconcile against it.
Standard Safaricom paybill charges apply and go to Safaricom, not to us.
Giving from outside Kenya? Email us before you send — we can tell you which route loses the least to fees, and whether a receipt useful for tax in your country is available.
Email us about an international giftWhere it goes
What the first money actually pays for
Only the registration costs below are confirmed figures, taken from Kenyan statutory fee schedules. The rest are budget lines we will publish with real numbers once the Year One budget is finalised — we would rather show you an empty box than a made-up figure.
| Line | Cost | What it unlocks |
|---|---|---|
| CBO registration, Mombasa County | KES 1,000–5,000 | Legal existence. Without this there is no bank account, no paybill, no grant application, no MOU. |
| The listening process | to be published | Transport, venue, refreshments and facilitation for sessions with girls and young women in the target ward. |
| Curriculum development & facilitator time | to be published | Twelve months of weekly savings-group and curriculum sessions for one to two groups. |
| Vocational placements & starter tools | to be published | The difference between a girl who has been trained and a girl who is earning. |
| Supervision & staff wellbeing | to be published | Clinical supervision for everyone in direct delivery. Non-negotiable, and budgeted as such. |
| PBO registration (year two) | KES 25,000 + KES 1,000 name reservation | National status, and access to institutional funders that will not fund a CBO. |
Funds are held in a dedicated account in the organisation's name, never a personal one, with two signatories required. We publish an annual financial summary whether or not a funder requires it. We will tell you what did not work, not only what did. If you ask where your specific gift went, you get a real answer. And if we cannot use your money for what you gave it for, we will contact you before we spend it on anything else.
Other ways to help
Three things we need that are not money
Honestly, two of these are more urgent than the money.
Become a founding member
A Kenyan CBO needs a minimum of ten resident members to register. We are building that founding membership from people genuinely invested in this work — not names collected to clear a threshold. If you live in Mombasa County and this is your community, this is the most valuable thing you can give us right now.
Talk to us about joiningOffer an apprenticeship or a first job
Our income pathway only works if Mombasa employers are actually willing to take someone on. If you run a business here — in the port, in tourism, in hospitality, in a trade, in services — one apprenticeship place or one entry-level role does more for this programme than a donation of the same value. We are asking before we train, not after.
Offer a placementLend a professional skill
We specifically need: a Kenyan advocate familiar with the PBO framework, a monitoring and evaluation specialist, a Kiswahili translator willing to review this site, a bookkeeper, and someone who has run a savings group before. Pro bono, part-time, or advisory — all useful.
Offer a skillFor institutional funders
We are building for the funding environment that exists, not the one that used to
USAID committed roughly US$2.5 billion to Kenya between 2020 and 2025 — about $470 million a year, 80% of it health-related — before U.S. foreign assistance was frozen in January 2025 and cut through a July 2025 rescissions package.
By one estimate, terminated USAID contracts and grants in Kenya totalled over KSh 108 billion, roughly US$835 million, with gender-based-violence programmes named specifically among the casualties. We do not build a plan that assumes a large bilateral or UN-adjacent grant in Year One. We build one that survives without it.
Who we are approaching
- AWDF Small Grants Programme — US$1,000–5,000, active in Kenya, built explicitly for small women's groups without other access to finance
- Urgent Action Fund–Africa — flexible, rapid-response funding built to reach emerging groups
- UNFPA — 2026 East and Southern Africa call, seeking women-led and youth-led organisations on GBV prevention and social-norm change
- Kenyan corporate CSR — Safaricom Foundation, Equity Group Foundation, KCB Foundation, given Mombasa's tourism and port-economy corporate presence
Training fees, a small social enterprise, and vocational placements tied to our alternative-livelihood model — built in from day one rather than added later, given how unstable pure grant dependency has become across this sector.
Get help · Pata msaada
If you are in danger, do not wait for us
Peponi Yetu is not an emergency service. These are. They are free, they answer at any hour, and you do not need to give your name.
National GBV helpline (HAK 1195)
Free from any phone in Kenya, 24 hours. Counselling, and referral to medical care, shelter, legal aid, police and emergency rescue. Operated by Healthcare Assistance Kenya with the State Department for Gender.
Simu ya bure, saa 24. Msaada kwa manusura wa ukatili wa kijinsia.Childline Kenya — for anyone under 18
Free, 24 hours, anonymous. For children, and for any adult worried about a child. Also on WhatsApp at +254 722 116 116.
Kwa watoto chini ya miaka 18. Ni bure, saa 24, bila kutoa jina lako.Police, ambulance, fire
Kenya's emergency numbers: 999, 112 or 911. If you are being hurt right now, call this first.
Polisi, ambulensi, zimamoto. Piga simu sasa hivi ikiwa unadhuriwa.GBV Recovery Centre, Coast General Hospital
Medical care, forensic examination and psychosocial support for survivors of sexual violence, in Mombasa. Going within 72 hours matters for both medical treatment and evidence — but go whenever you can, even if longer has passed.
Huduma za matibabu na ushauri nasaha kwa manusura, Coast General Hospital.FIDA Kenya
Free legal aid and representation for women. Offices in Mombasa.
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We run a savings and skills programme for girls and young women in one Mombasa community. We are not a shelter, a hotline, a clinic or a law firm, and we do not have staff on call at night.
What we can do is walk with you to the people who are equipped, and stay in touch afterwards. If you are not in immediate danger and you want to talk about joining the programme, our contact details are on the contact page — but please use the numbers above first if you need help today.
Evidence base
Every claim on this site, and where it came from
Thirty-one sources behind the strategic plan. We publish them because an organisation asking for trust should make itself checkable.
The full strategic plan
Peponi Yetu Strategic Plan & Concept Note · Year One · Mombasa. Nine pages, prepared August 2026. Covers vision, problem analysis, programme design, theory of change, governance, partnerships, funding strategy, risk register and roadmap.
Open the plan (PDF)Where a figure comes from a single study, we name the study. Where the evidence is contested or conditional, we say so on the same page as the claim rather than in a footnote. Where we do not have a number yet, we write that we do not have it. If you find something on this site that is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Sources
Appendix
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- Urgent Action Fund–Africa, 2026 Call for Proposals uaf-africa.org
- Namati / Grassroots Justice Network, "Coast Women In Development" organisational profile namati.org
- Temmerman, Ogbe, Manguro et al., "The Gender-Based Violence and Recovery Centre at Coast Provincial General Hospital, Mombasa, Kenya" (2019), PLOS Medicine / PMC ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6677296
- Integrated care model study comparing GBVRC and livelihood-based support interventions, Mombasa researchgate.net/publication/334903978
- "Prevalence and Patterns of Gender-Based Violence Across Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Mombasa, Kenya," BMC Women's Health bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com
- Mombasa County Government, "Public Service Administration, Youth, Gender & Sports" department profile web.mombasa.go.ke
- Mombasa County Annual Development Plan 2024–25 (County Treasury) mombasaassembly.go.ke
- UNFPA, East and Southern Africa GBV funding call (2026), via Impact Funding newsletter impactfunding.substack.com
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