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Tupo.Tusikizwe — Community-Led Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Kwale County, Kenya

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A four-year, €278,606 COVAW project trained women, youth and persons with disabilities in Kwale County, Kenya, to engage the budget process; 32 proposals were adopted into the 2022/23 county budget and GBV recovery centres entered the 2023–2027 development plan.

278,606 EUR
Grant funding (Aug 2020 - Mar 2025)
32 proposals
Community proposals adopted into county budget (2022/2023 budget)
35 %
Increase in women's/PWD representation in public participation forums (project period)
2.4 million people
People reached by budget-accountability campaigns (project period)
30 organisations
Women-led Disabled Persons Organisations engaged (project period)
4 centres
GBV recovery centres written into county development plan (CIDP 2023-2027)
Tupo.Tusikizwe — Community-Led Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Kwale County, Kenya

Details

Maturity
Discontinued
Promoter
Coalition on Violence Against Women (COVAW), funded by Voice Global
Period
2020–2025
Keywords
gender-based violence, public finance, gender budgeting, disability inclusion, civil society

Context

Tupo.Tusikizwe ('We are here. Listen to us') is a gender-responsive budgeting programme run by the Coalition on Violence Against Women (COVAW) in Kwale County, Kenya, with funding from Voice Global. It ran from August 2020 to March 2025 on a grant of €278,606.

Objectives

The programme aimed to train and organise women, youth and persons with disabilities — including 30 women-led Disabled Persons Organisations — across the sub-counties of Matuga, Msambweni and Lungalunga to scrutinise and influence Kwale County's budget cycle.

Activities

Activities combined direct training and organising of marginalised groups with radio, social media and dialogue campaigns on budget accountability.

Results

According to Voice Global's grantee reporting, 32 community-driven proposals were adopted into Kwale County's 2022/2023 budget, women's and persons-with-disabilities' representation in public participation forums rose by 35%, and awareness campaigns reached over 2.4 million people. COVAW's own account adds that the county government released previously stalled women's, youth's and PWD funds following the advocacy, and that four GBV recovery centres and gender-responsive budgeting priorities were written into Kwale's County Integrated Development Plan 2023-2027.

Conclusions

This is a sub-national, civil-society-led model rather than a national government mandate, and its figures come mainly from the funder's and implementer's own reporting rather than an independent external evaluation; a commissioned end-line evaluation was not independently located, so results should be read as programme-reported rather than externally verified.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
Coalition on Violence Against Women (COVAW) implementation staff, 30 trained women-led Disabled Persons Organisations acting as community organisers across Matuga, Msambweni and Lungalunga sub-counties

Conditions for success

  • Multi-channel awareness campaigns (radio, social media, dialogue) alongside direct community training
  • Sustained multi-year donor funding (Voice Global) to support organising through a full budget cycle
  • Direct engagement of marginalised groups (women, youth, persons with disabilities) in the formal county budget process

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