Rise Up Leadership & Advocacy Program in Kenya 2025 ($17,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: April 14, 2025

Applications are open for the Rise Up Leadership & Advocacy Program in Kenya 2025. Global nonprofit Rise Up will choose a gaggle of visionary native leaders from Kenya to take part in their intensive Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator coaching to strengthen gender fairness and justice from July 14 19, 2025. Through Rise Up’s program, these native leaders will advance transformational change in their organizations and communities, and champion improved nationwide and native legal guidelines, packages, and funding for ladies, ladies, and gender-nonconforming individuals.

Rise Up will choose, prepare, and make investments in native civil society leaders to make progress on gender fairness by advancing ladies’ training in Nairobi, Kiambu, Kajiado and Machakos Counties. The newly chosen leaders in Kenya will turn into part of Rise Up’s world community of leaders in Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the United States who’re making a future the place all individuals can thrive. Rise Up builds energy with ladies, ladies, and their allies by offering coaching, funding, and connection to a world community to assist them obtain significant, lasting change. Since 2009, Rise Up’s highly effective community of over 800 leaders has efficiently advocated for 218 new and improved legal guidelines and insurance policies, positively impacting greater than 172 million individuals all over the world.

Grants

• Rise Up will competitively award grants of $17,000 USD to collaborating leaders and their organizations.

Eligibility

• Civil Society leaders of minimal 18 years of age on the time of the coaching in July 2025.
• Currently working in Nairobi, Kiambu, Kajiado or Machakos Counties.
• Has a private curiosity and present dedication to selling gender fairness broadly in the three precedence areas of well being, training, and financial OPPORTUNITY for ladies, ladies, and gender-nonconforming individuals.
• Represents or works intently with marginalized teams from socially or economically marginalized communities, ladies and ladies with disabilities, ethnic and/or spiritual minorities, and different traditionally deprived populations.
• Ability to take part in an in-person coaching from July 14-19, 2025, with some digital classes pre-and-publish coaching. Please be aware that Rise Up will cowl all prices associated to program participation, together with transportation, lodging, meals, and supplies.
• Currently works at a non-revenue group, civil society group, media group, or authorities group at a degree of coordination or administration and has some degree of resolution-making energy.
• Has the help of your group’s management to take part in Rise Up’s Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator coaching.
• To be eligible for a grant, Rise Up requires organizations to be legally registered in nation and set as much as obtain worldwide funds. Entities that aren’t registered could be sponsored by one other monetary entity or fiscal sponsor. Note: Government organizations are usually not eligible to obtain grants by this program.
• Proficient in oral and written English.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, see FAQ and go to Rise Up Leadership & Advocacy Program.