Sustainability Is the Assignment
Women-led initiatives have long been doing the work of building movements, responding to community realities, and creating pathways for change. The deeper challenge lies in how institutions choose to support that work for long-term sustainability. This reflection, drawn from the conversation on Advancing Women’s Leadership Through Shared Opportunity under the 2026 IWD Give to Gain theme, explores what it means to move beyond symbolic support toward trust-based, power-shifting, and intentional resourcing that allows women-led work to thrive with dignity, strength, and staying power.
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Making Space for Young Women’s Leadership
CivSource Kenya joined Badili Africa for the launch of a new publication examining the political conditions that keep young women at the margins of elective leadership. Drawing on evidence from Kenya’s 2017 and 2022 electoral cycles, the book shows why support that focuses on candidates alone falls short when the wider political environment remains hostile, from party gatekeeping and financing barriers to online and offline violence and weak protection and care structures.
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The NAAPU Indigenous Women Fund Launch
CivFund and CivSource Kenya joined Samburu Women Trust for the official launch of the NAAPU Indigenous Women Fund, a milestone shaped by years of women-led organizing and community-rooted solidarity. Designed as a feminist, Indigenous women-driven, trust-based grant-making facility, NAAPU will resource Indigenous women-led organisations, young women-led groups, women with disabilities-led initiatives, and informal community collectives working in remote rural contexts. Co-created through deep consultations with grassroots Indigenous women, the Fund responds directly to unequal access to funding by placing resources in the hands of Indigenous women as leaders, strategists, and solution-builders.
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