Feminist Climate Justice

Our climate justice work is grounded in feminist values, partnering with girls and young women in amplifying ecofeminist ideas and values, and championing for climate action values that prioritize people and planet.

Feminani

Feminani is a feminist advocacy initiative aimed at bridging the gap in knowledge and awareness of feminism and feminist principles among teenage girls and young women in rural Kenya.

Vijana Dialogues

Young women-led community conversations that center their needs, interests and aspirations and link them to governance processes for evidence-based accountability interventions and gender-responsive governance.
Zero Teenage pregnancies| End GBV| Gender-responsive governance

About Us

Why DadaPower?

DadaPower Initiative is a young women-led, grassroots community initiative founded in 2015 and registered in 2019 as a Community-Based Organization in Murang’a County. Our goal is to promote and enhance teenage girls’ and young women’s rights for their academic, socio-economic, and political advancement. We strongly believe that every girl and woman is entitled to a dignified life with sufficient access to development opportunities.

Word from the founder

I will forever treasure the day I received a call from the school Headteacher at Rurii Primary School, thanking the team and I for a mentorship talk with the school’s teenage girls in 2015. To this, she attributed the school having a girl lead in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) that year, for the first term ever in the school history.

Birthed from a desire to see teenage girls in rural public schools equally enroll and complete school and take up leadership positions as boys, the story of Dadapower’s work has taken a rewarding and promising trajectory.

 

What Drives Us

Our Vision

A society with confident, competent and civically engaged women.

Our Mission

To promote and enhance the progress of women and girls through capacity building, advocacy, and policy initiatives aimed at their socio economic and political advancement

Programmes

Feminist Climate Justice

Feminani

Vijana Dialogues

Vijana Dialogue Series

Vijana Dialogues

Murang'a Vijana Dialogue

On July 16, 2022, the DadaPower Initiative convened the Murang’a Vijana Dialogue at the National Library Hall in Murang’a County. The event aimed to engage youth voters on their crucial role in fostering peaceful elections and making informed decisions during the upcoming August 9, 2022, elections.

Why is There Massive Rural to Urban Migration by Murang’a Youth?

For Murang’a County to grow and develop the sectors of agriculture, education, health, infrastructure and tourism .Its young people need to continually give their time, skills and resources towards their growth.

Upcoming Dialogues

23rd November 2024

Step Up Outdoor Meetup

25 November 2024 – 10 December 2024

16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence

Latest News

Step Up Young Women’s Event

Step Up Young Women’s Event

Unemployment levels among young people in Kenya persist, disproportionately affecting young women who often also grapple with other challenges caused by patriarchal norms and safety issues such as sexual harassment in school, at work and even homes. Young women are...

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