Kodera Trans Women Group

About Us

Transgender Rights and Equality

Kodera Trans Women Group (KTWG) is a transgender rights organization focused on advocacy for gender identity recognition, gender expression, and inclusive policies. We work towards justice and equality for trans people. Rooted in our movements, we work collaboratively with strategic partners at the national and global level to provide access, knowledge, and resources. KTWG is registered as a non-profit organization in Kenya.

Our Vision

KTWG envisions a society free from human rights violations based on gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics.

Our Mission

KTWG is an advocacy organization working towards justice and equality for trans people. We are raising awareness, movement building, advocacy, capacity building, information dissemination, and economic justice.

Our Values

KTWG believes in upholding the following core principles:

• Framing our work through decolonization
• Promoting autonomy and self-determination
• Supporting and strengthening community-based leadership
• Working collaboratively and advocating collectively for human rights
• Creating transformative, community-driven knowledge
• Building solidarity

What We Do

Raising Awareness

Sharing facts about transgender issues in Kenya and the stigma faced by the community.

Movement Building

Working with local trans people and allies to amplify voices and demands for equality.

Advocacy

Advocating for changes in law, supporting legal challenges, and demanding recognition of transgender rights.

Capacity Building

Providing educational workshops, leadership training, and community-building activities for the trans community.

Economic Justice

Offering support for economic empowerment initiatives for transgender people.

How We Work

Our programmatic work is guided by the following strategies:

• Advocacy, political mobilization, and campaigning
• Engagement with key institutions and initiatives
• Training and capacity building
• Resource mobilization, including financial and technical resources
• Knowledge production/generation, including data collection and analysis

Our institutional work is guided by the following structure and working methods:

• We take pride in being a trans organization that is led by trans, leadership.
• We work in a structure that emphasizes collaboration, trust, and responsibility in the pursuit of the achievement of our vision and mission.
• We recognize that our sector is under-resourced and so seek to carefully manage our human and financial resources in the most efficient and effective ways possible.
• •We seek to attend to organizational and individual well-being, including learning and development.
• We understand that we work in a rapidly changing and uncertain world, and that we need organizational agility and responsiveness.
• As an international organization that is membership- based, seeks to be genuinely responsive to the needs and priorities of our community, we emphasize high-quality, accessible, and regular communications through a variety of mediums.
• We regularly seek formal and informal ways to solicit views, perspectives, and priorities from activists.

Our Accomplishments

The organization has been addressing human rights abuses reported by the transgender people as well as facilitates the process of access to justice by linking them to essential services such as psychosocial counselling, legal representation, collective care where trans people telling their stories through art therapy, trans people learn about the signs, causes, myths, facts and human rights issues surrounding transgender and the marginalization. We have won a case in court that allows transgender people to change their name in legal documents, 13 transgender people have won their cases in court against employers discrimination due to their gender identity, 5 cases over arbitrary arrest and prosecution by police and 2 cases over discrimination in housing. Provided human rights education to over 100 transgender people and collective care to about 500 trans people, provided therapy, helping them to speak out and connect with trans-community and healing support.

Kodera Trans Group