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Centre for the Support of Prisoners(CSP)

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The Centre for the Support of Prisoners (CSP), a local Kenyan NGO was founded in 2007 in a bid to complement the Government’s efforts in ex-prisoner welfare and particularly to improve the quality of life of prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families. It works in both urban and rural areas, and in particular among underprivileged communities.

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Radio Mang'elete

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Radio Mang'elete is a community radio station in Kenya, owned by 33 women groups. Mang'elete is located in a small town called Nthongoni, which is 14km from Mtito-andei town, 4km from Chyullu hills and 3km from Tsavo west National park.

In the year 2011, Mang'elete received funding from Akiba Uhaki Foundation to support the sustainability strategies for the Community Radio, as the first phase of the implementation of their strategic plan (2011- 2015), earlier developed with support from Akiba Uhaki Foundation

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TWAWEZA COMMUNICATIONS

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Twaweza Communications is an arts, culture and media organization based in Nairobi. Established in 2000, the organization is anchoring itself as a leader in the sector by bringing together academicians and practitioners in knowledge and skills development. We creatively work with the media, institutions of higher learning, community based organizations (CBOs), civil society organizations (CSOs) among other partners to build capacity in a range of areas.

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The Action Group for Health, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS (AGHA)

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The Action Group for Health, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS (AGHA) is an indigenous Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) founded in July 2003 to mobilize health professionals and health consumers to address issues of human rights as they relate to health, with a specific focus on HIV/AIDS. AGHA brings together doctors, nurses and other professionals with NGOs interested in promoting human rights in the health sector to create local and national networks dedicated to health advocacy.

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The Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE)

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The Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) is a non-partisan Women’s Organization operating in Uganda with its head office in Kampala. FOWODE grew out of the women’s caucus of the 1994-1995 Constituent Assembly (CA) that debated and passed the 1995 constitution. FOWODE works to promote Gender equality in all areas of decision-making through advocacy, training, research and publications.

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The Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRPF)

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Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) is an independent, non partisan, Non Governmental Organisation, working for the awareness, promotion and protection of human rights in Uganda.

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Mental Health Uganda (MHU)

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Mental Health Uganda (MHU) is an indigenous Disabled People's Organization (DPO) for people with and survivors of mental illness.

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The Pastoral Women's Alliance to Break Cultural Chains (PWABC)

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The Pastoral Women's Alliance to Break Cultural Chains (PWABC) is an organization that works to challenge and reform retrogressive cultural practices and beliefs that entrench human rights violations against girls and women in rural Rukoola Kiboga District in Uganda. PWABC was started by ten community members to strongly campaign against archaic cultural practices like wife sharing, young girls abduction into forced premature marriages, denial of women’s rights to property ownership, domestic violence and forced widow inheritance.

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Africa Community Development Media (ACDM)

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Africa Community Development Media (ACDM) is an organization that works to transform the manner in which development and governance work can be enhanced by creating a dynamic partnership with the various stakeholders.

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The Leadership Forum Tanzania

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The Leadership Forum Tanzania is an organization that works in social justice policy issues by promoting national participatory governance and dialogue.Their goals are :

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The Youth Agenda

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Youth Agenda seeks to make the Youth factor count in Kenya. They aim at redefining the role of young people in the governance and development processes in Kenya through training, research, knowledge generation and promoting civic awareness. YAA envisions a just and equitable Kenyan society in which young men and women live a full and dignified life.

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Consent Uganda

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Founded in 2002, Consumer Education Trust (CONSENT) is a Ugandan Civil Society Organization that strives to realize a socially informed, equitable and just society through empowerment of consumers, promotion of ethical practices among businesses and engagement of policy-makers to enact pro-people policies.

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The Tanzania Community Legal Training Association (TACOLTA)

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The Tanzania Community Legal Training Association(TACOLTA) is a not-for-profit Organization that strategically works towards the advancement of social justice and entrenchment of a human rights culture in Tanzania through provision of legal training to the poor and marginalized parts of the Tanzania Community and strengthening civic competence towards access to social justice and equitable development. The Organization which was established in 2007, was meant to bridge the legal knowledge gap existing in most of Tanzania communities, a gap which has far reaching negative consequences in the administration of justice and the access to justice.



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The National Convention Executive Council (NCEC)

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The National Convention Executive Council (NCEC) is the executive arm(implementor of programs and policies of the National Convention Assembly(NCA). NCA is a not for profit Kenyan Citizens Movement for reforms deeply entrenched in the national and regional political and policy processes in Kenya.

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The Institute of Kenyan South Asian History and Culture (IKSAH)

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The Institute of Kenyan South Asians History and Culture (IKSAH) is an organization that works to promote greater interaction between various races and advance inclusion of South Asian History and culture into the mainstream and national discourse as well as develop a consciousness of nationhood through respect of human rights and social justice. (www.awaazmagazine.com)


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Komarocks Community Development Network (KCDN)

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The Komarocks Community Development Network (KCDN) is a registered Community Based Organization(CBO) based at Komarock Phase 2, Nairobi which works in partnership with various community and national partners to support the realisation of the right to education of orphaned and vulnerable children in the area as well as to offer civil education to area residents on key issues affecting their livelihoods as well as fundamental national issues with a view to creating civic awareness on the issues of governance and human rights as they affect the local people and how they can become active participants in the governance process in the country.

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Centre for Human Rights and Democracy(CHRD)

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The Centre for Human Rights and Democracy(CHRD) is a Kenyan civil society organisation that supports and works to promote, lobby, front and document issues of human rights and social justice in the Rift Valley and Western Provinces in Kenya.

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Reality Tested Youth Program (RYP)

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The Reality-Tested Youth Program(RYP) is an organisation that works to build the capacities of partner community groups to generate and manage social change in local communities.

Akiba Uhaki Members of staff with representatives from the Kasarani Youth Support Initiative


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Partnership for Change

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The Grantee is an open initiative of six partners namely, Mars Group Kenya, The National Convention Executive Council (NCEC), The National Youth Convention (NYC), University Students Organizations (Nairobi, Maseno, and Masinde Muliro), The Inter Religious Forum and the Kenya Network of Grassroots Organizations. It also incorporates other other like-minded organizations, Civil Society Agencies, NGO’s, Youth groups, Faith Based Organisations, Social Movements and grass roots organization and Networks from all of the eight provinces of Kenya.

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