To actualize the organization’s programming, SWT strategically positions itself as a center for resource mobilization and through support indigenous women and youth-led institutions through re-granting and offering seed capitals and technical support to develop their capacities. Through NAAPU Indigenous Women Fund – The fund provides indigenous women with access to funding and resourcing that are hard to reach and underfunded indigenous women and girls among indigenous communities offering an alternative financial service. The basket fund envisioned that the fund will serve to strengthen indigenous women’s voices and bargaining power within the home as well as the wider society.
SWT resources act as a central hub for advancing and promoting indigenous women and adolescent girls through seed capital and capacity development enable compact climate change and humanitarians crisis
SWT’s grant-making strategy operates at three levels:
- Regional Level: support 18 grantees across Africa from 2022 to 2026 cycle advancing indigenous peoples conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity for adaptation and resilience to climate change.
- National Level: supports 12 women and girl-led organizations in 8 arid and semi-arid counties of Kenya, to advance women and girl’s collective voices to address Gender Based Violence (GBV) among indigenous communities.
- Local Level: Support 14 organizations through micro-grant community led response to combat devastating humanitarian crisis, cash transfer, wash and nutrition and other life saving interventions.