Established in 2018, we are a consortium that works to support Trans, gender diverse, and intersex (TGDI) movements in Kenya through action, freedom, power, and knowledge building approaches that focus on building socio-cultural support networks among TGDI movements to voice their concerns and to stimulate capacity building that inform organizational learning that is strategic, authentic, visible and TGDI-led.

Our vision is to “see a society that upholds gender equality, dignity, respect, and fairness for all TGDI people” in Kenya. Our programs are non-discriminatory, integrated, accessible, and equitably implemented through a rights-based approach and are informed by evidence to respond to the community needs of those most vulnerable to poverty and disease. We believe in building strategic, synergetic, and sustainable partnerships with the Kenya government, and local, national, regional, and global community organizations to support coordinated social justice issues.

Practise Areas

Action

Our gender-affirming healthcare-related advocacy and service-delivery learning are focused on contributing to expanding Trans, gender non-binary, and Intersex person's participation through in-country global partnerships with healthcare systems advocating for deliberate inclusion of gender identity, gender expression, and bodily diversity issues in the work of donors, health systems, and with local, national, regional and international organizations working on primary healthcare needs of trans, gender non-binary and intersex persons grounded in international human rights practice standards.

Freedom

Our involvement in local, national, and International Human Rights systems aims to end human rights violations based on gender identity, gender expression, and bodily diversity

issues, including those of criminalization, exclusion, violence, stigma, and discrimination holding governments accountable to social justice indigenous issues.

Power

We are working to create a radical expansion of political organizing by formally plugging Trans* organizations in different sectors to harness their specific input and expertise on gender identity, gender expression, and bodily diversity issues at the local, national, regional, and international levels so that activists can participate in all decision-making processes affecting their communities.

Knowledge

Our approach to knowledge management aims to promote an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing NTAN’s information assets. These assets include databases, documents, policies, procedures, and previously uncaptured expertise and experience in Network membership organizations.