Faith Akinyi

Executive Director

Faith Akinyi serves as Siaya Muungano Network Executive Director, where she leads the organisation secretariat in delivering projects and interventions to realize its vision. As an Executive Directive, her efforts and commitment to the organisation has demonstrated the passion in raising community voices especially the women and girls for socio-economic transformation and creating safe and enabling environment that empower the women and girls. She is a humble and self – driven woman leader, who capitalizes on professionalism through appropriate strategies to deliver standard results and improve performance. She has vast experience in delivering impactful women, girls and PWD initiatives at the local level and the application of feminist approach in the strategies. Her experience spans in areas of economic empowerment for women through village saving and loaning, land and property rights, Feminism, women leadership and group dynamics and championing gender equality right from the community level.
Faith holds a Diploma in Health Records and Information Technology from Kenya Medical Training College and has undergone through different trainings aligned to matters advocacy, leadership, Gender mainstreaming, Feminism, Networking & Alliance Building, Civic Education and Paralegal. She is currently pursuing Diploma in Project Management. What drives her work in promoting gender equality and social welfare is the strong conviction that a just society in which marginalized especially women and girls can live dignified life is possible.