Women’s Agency & Community-Led Change

Advancing women’s economic agency, leadership, wellbeing and collective power for healthier, more resilient and inclusive communities.

Interconnected barriers need an integrated response

Women and girls in underserved and island communities often face interconnected barriers to economic opportunity, education, healthcare, financial resources, productive assets, safety and participation in decision making.

These challenges can reinforce one another. RAHI therefore takes an integrated, community-based and locally led approach, working with women, girls, families, community structures, local leaders, health workers, schools, producer groups and other partners to create practical pathways towards greater agency, resilience, dignity and participation.

RAHI works with women and girls, particularly those experiencing poverty, exclusion and limited access to opportunities, to strengthen their ability to earn, organise, lead, participate and influence change.

Our Programme Areas

01. Women's Economic Empowerment

We bring safe pregnancy education directly to mothers on the islands, helping them access antenatal care and deliver safely in health facilities.Women’s Economic Empowerment
Strengthening economic agency, financial confidence and the ability to access and control livelihood opportunities, through financial literacy, savings, entrepreneurship, livelihood development and market linkages.

02. Skills, Enterprise & Livelihoods

Supporting women and adolescent mothers to move from skills development, tailoring, hairdressing, leather and footwear, soap making, mushroom cultivation, aquaculture, agriculture to sustainable livelihoods.

03. Women's Cooperatives & SACCOS

Promoting collective action so organised women can save, invest, produce, negotiate, access markets and influence decisions, with an emphasis on governance, accountability and sustainability.

04. Women in Fisheries & Aquaculture

Strengthening women’s participation in sustainable fisheries and aquaculture through fisheries clubs, aquaculture skills, value addition, entrepreneurship, savings and environmental stewardship.

05. Gender Equality & Women's Leadership

Promoting women’s meaningful participation in household, community and development decisions, GBV prevention, community dialogue and the positive engagement of men and boys.

06. Nutrition, WASH & Menstrual Health

Integrating nutrition, WASH and menstrual health into community programming, and strengthening linkages between communities and appropriate health and social services.

07. Community-Led Change

Supporting women to participate as community mobilisers, peer educators, advocates, group leaders and local decision-makers, prioritising local knowledge and ownership.

08. Climate Resilience & Women's Livelihoods

Connecting women’s empowerment with climate-resilient livelihoods, aquaculture, mushroom cultivation, sustainable agriculture, fisheries, tree planting and environmental restoration.

Women are not only beneficiaries of change. They are leaders of change.

RAHI is committed to advancing women’s empowerment through an integrated approach that connects economic agency, gender equality, health, dignity, leadership, environmental sustainability and community-led development.

We believe that sustainable empowerment requires more than a training certificate. It requires skills, resources, networks, opportunities, confidence, collective organisation and a meaningful voice in decisions.

Our work seeks to create pathways through which women and girls can build livelihoods, strengthen their families, organise with others, participate in community life and lead solutions to the challenges affecting their communities.

Invest in a woman and you invest in everything she touches

Your support funds the training sessions, materials, and follow-up that help women on the islands build sustainable businesses and truly independent lives.