Violet Shivutse is the Founder and Coordinator of Shibuye Community Health Workers and a regional watchdog group, which works with local authorities to actively enforce the land and inheritance rights of women and orphans in Kenya. She has more than a decade of experience building community resilience and climate change adaptation, and negotiating for gender-responsive and grassroots women policy change. She regularly trains women and local authorities at the national and regional level to utilize Local-to-Local dialogues and innovating community monitoring mechanisms to ensure that development policies are implemented in a gender-just and equitable manner. She successfully runs the Good Governance Coalition led by women that strengthens partnerships between authorities and communities.

Violet Shivutse
Founder and Coordinator
Shibuye Community Health Workers, Kenya
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