Flagship projects
Accelerating Rural Women’s Access to Agricultural Markets and Trade
Accelerating Rural Women Access to agricultural markets and trade is a development project with an objective to contribute to women’s economic empowerment and improved live hoods through enhanced...
Clean Cooking
The main objective of this project is to mainstream cooking policy frameworks and advocate for increased budget allocation for implementation of clean cooking programs. The long term goal of the...
Rural Women Economic Empowerment Project(REEP)
The Rural Women Economic Empowerment project seeks to socially and economically empower rural women farmers through agri-business and rural development in Muranga and Nyandarua Counties with an...
Money power
GROOTS Kenya in partnership with HORIZONT3000 is currently implementing a three year governance project entitled Money Power: Enhancing grassroots women, youth, marginalized and indigenous...
Rural Women Tech
Objective: Using technology to advance transformative change related to girls, women’s and trans people’s human rights National...
SDGs Mashinani; Data Driven National Level Advocacy for Gender Equality
GROOTS Kenya in partnership with Equal Measures 2030 is working with grassroots women and relevant stakeholders in Kenya to advocate for gender responsive Medium Term Plans and County Integrated...
Mainstreaming clean cooking technologies in Kitui County policy frameworks
GROOTS Kenya with support from SNV is implementing the Voices for Change Programme that aims at strengthening capacities of CSOs to advocate for an enabling environment in Renewable Energy. The...
Securing Social Protection for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
GROOTS Kenya continues to reach out to Orphans and Vulnerable children in Ndeiya, Mathare and Kibera to facilitate an environment where they can achieve their dreams and live better lives. In...
Promoting Gender Equality through supporting women to take up elective political posts
Through three projects, Women Political Representation Enhanced, Strengthening Electoral Processes in Kenya and Gender Implementation Tracking, GROOTS Kenya aims to contribute to enhanced gender...
Accelerating Rural Women’s Access to Markets and Trade
GROOTS Kenya has implemented this project since year 2012 to date in partnership with the World Bank & JSDF. The first of its kind under the World Bank managed trust fund, the overall aim is...
Securing and safeguarding public land in Kenya
In 2012 GROOTS Kenya developed the well documented Community-led Public Land Mapping model, with an aim of putting local communities at the forefront to safeguard the much threatened public land...
Halting dispossession of property among widows and orphans
GROOTS Kenya has for over 10 years worked with grassroots women in various communities to curb asset stripping and disinheritance with specific emphasis on matrimonial property. For most low...
Champions for Transformative Leadership
The project has progressively applied the Champions for transformative leadership model developed by GROOTS Kenya to pursue increased and enhanced women leadership and governance in Kenya. The...
Powering grassroots women leadership in development
Sixty seven percent of Africa’s population, estimated to be about 1.13 billion, now has a mobile phone, according to an article published by The Guardian in June 2015. The mobile penetration in...