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The Voice Programme has officially closed as of 31 December 2024.

This website, as its main public repository of information, tools and references, will remain available until December 2026. Feel free to browse through and look back at the work of our amazing partners and the impact the programme has achieved with them! The programme may have concluded, but we are certain that rightsholders will continue the onward journey to create responsive and inclusive societies for all of us!

  • Organisation
    Ishtar MSM, as fiscal hosts for this project, was formed in 1997 after a staging of the play Cleopatra at the Kenya National Theatre. This was an entry point to lives of MSM in Nairobi and opening an atmosphere of trust and openness. The organization has over the years developed strong allies, partnerships and networks and is one of the member organizations’ in the Gay and Lesbian coalition of Kenya. In 2002 Ishtar was registered with the ministry of social services as a self-help group.
    The organization will host an independent consultant contracted to lead the writing of a 5-year Learning document, Voice impact stories and voices of change from the 400 plus grantees of Voice.

    • Organisation

      Ishtar MSM, as fiscal hosts for this project, was formed in 1997 after a staging of the play Cleopatra at the Kenya National Theatre. This was an entry point to lives of MSM in Nairobi and opening an atmosphere of trust and openness. The organization has over the years developed strong allies, partnerships and networks and is one of the member organizations’ in the Gay and Lesbian coalition of Kenya. In 2002 Ishtar was registered with the ministry of social services as a self-help group.
      The organization will host an independent consultant contracted to lead the writing of a 5-year Learning document, Voice impact stories and voices of change from the 400 plus grantees of Voice.

    • Project

      On April 7, 2021, Voice turned five! Voice,is in the process of closing the first phase grantee projects and related administrative processes covering a total of 400 grantee projects.As part of the closure process,Voice aims to produce an an elaborate learning document, that details the processes involved in the generation, documentation and dissemination of knowledge by a) Voice as an institution enabling grantees to engage in knowledge generation and b) the grantees who generate the knowledge and consume it. The project will not be creative writing only but a deep dive to identify the impact stories, most significant change stories and thought provoking stories out of the 400+ Voice grants.

  • Project

    On April 7, 2021, Voice turned five! Voice,is in the process of closing the first phase grantee projects and related administrative processes covering a total of 400 grantee projects.As part of the closure process,Voice aims to produce an an elaborate learning document, that details the processes involved in the generation, documentation and dissemination of knowledge by a) Voice as an institution enabling grantees to engage in knowledge generation and b) the grantees who generate the knowledge and consume it. The project will not be creative writing only but a deep dive to identify the impact stories, most significant change stories and thought provoking stories out of the 400+ Voice grants.

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