📱✨ Safer digital spaces for women and girls.
🌍 This week, as we marked
#IWD2026 celebrations at
@AFKenya , partners, youth, policymakers and civil society organisations came together to address the growing challenge of Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV).
🇫🇷 reaffirms its commitment to working alongside 🇰🇪 to ensure that digital progress translates into empowerment — not violence.
As digital access expands rapidly in Kenya, discussions highlighted how online harassment, sextortion and AI-generated deepfakes are increasingly impacting women and girls — and the urgent need for collective action.
🎤 The event featured a dynamic panel moderated by artist and influencer
@MaandyKabaya , bringing together leading voices in the fight against digital gender-based violence:
• Carol Werunga, Senior Programme Manager at Urgent Action Fund–Africa
• Fridah Wawira, Executive Director at Coalition on Violence Against Women
@covaw
• Tom Osborn, CEO and Co-founder of Shamiri Institute
Their insights underscored the importance of stronger protections, accountability mechanisms, and survivor-centred support systems.
🇫🇷🇰🇪 The evening also marked the launch of a new €811,000 initiative in Kenya supported by
@AFD_France @AFD_en under the Feminist Organizations Support Fund and implemented with UAF-Africa and
@covaw
This initiative will strengthen feminist civil society organisations working to combat online violence and ensure safer digital spaces for women and girls.
@ChiggaiCS @francediplo_EN @arnaud_suquet