FLC: Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW) - Prevention and Response to Gender Based Violence The Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW) is a registered non-profit women?s rights organization founded in 1998 by several women lawyers who had common goals and a shared purpose to confront the low awareness of women?s real needs and rights i
n Kenya. It was registered in 1999 as the Centre for Rehabilitation and Education of Abused Women. It later changed the name to reflect its wider focus on women?s rights in society. CREAW?s programs and activities are thus anchored on enthusiastic lobbying
 and advocacy to support the interest of the constituents who are the women and children of Kenya. These programs include; Access to Justice Policy and Legislative reforms Governance and Leadership and Economic empowerment of women. This project will be at
tached to the Access to Justice Program that seeks to increase access to comprehensive justice for vulnerable groups and survivors of gender based violence. Other programs that will benefit include the policy and legislative reforms project that seeks to r
ealize the gains in women rights as outlined in the newly promulgated constitution of Kenya through county-level action interface with duty bearers media advocacy and capacity building; the governance and leadership program that seeks to improve the contri
bution of women leaders in the formulation of gender responsive policies legislation and projects through public sensitization community mobilization working with political parties smart networks and innovative use of ICT platforms and media advocacy ; the
 Economic empowerment program that seeks to improve livelihoods and income for vulnerable women affected by gender based violence by interrupting the poverty cycles and dependency of women.The main objectives of the proposed project: ?To encourage greater 
positive community response to prevent and respond to cases of sexual and gender based violence and HIV/AIDs. The Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW) is a registered non-profit women?s rights organization founded in 1998 by several women lawyers who had common goals and a shared purpose to confront the low awareness of women?s real needs and rights i
n Kenya. It was registered in 1999 as the Centre for Rehabilitation and Education of Abused Women. It later changed the name to reflect its wider focus on women?s rights in society. The main objectives of the proposed project: ?To encourage greater positiv
e community response to prevent and respond to cases of sexual and gender based violence and HIV/AIDs. CREAW?s programs and activities are thus anchored on enthusiastic lobbying and advocacy to support the interest of the constituents who are the women and
 children of Kenya. These programs include; Access to Justice Policy and Legislative reforms Governance and Leadership and Economic empowerment of women. This project will be attached to the Access to Justice Program that seeks to increase access to compre
hensive justice for vulnerable groups and survivors of gender based violence. Other programs that will benefit include the policy and legislative reforms project that seeks to realize the gains in women rights as outlined in the newly promulgated constitut
ion of Kenya through county-level action interface with duty bearers media advocacy and capacity building; the governance and leadership program that seeks to improve the contribution of women leaders in the formulation of gender responsive policies legisl
ation and projects through public sensitization community mobilization working with political parties smart networks and innovative use of ICT platforms and media advocacy ; the Economic empowerment program that seeks to improve livelihoods and income for 
vulnerable women affected by gender based violence by interrupting the poverty cycles and dependency of women.