Gungano

Scheduled for 23-26 November 2025, in Kitui and Mombasa, Kenya, is the Funding Partners’ Gungano, themed, Weathering the Storm: Seeding the Future. The Gungano is a thoughtfully curated, intergenerational, transnational assembly of mostly philanthropic actors committed to transforming how power and resources flow, particularly in humanitarian contexts.

The Gungano provides participants with a vital space to collectively reflect, learn, and build concrete agendas that respond to the turmoil that has disrupted and reorganised the philanthropic architecture. The Gungano journey begins on 23 November with an immersive visit to the Feminist Republik Healing Farm in Kitui, followed by travel to Mombasa on 24 November. The core Gungano meeting will be held from 25 to 26 November at the Serena Beach Resort. It will bring together a diverse ecosystem of actors, including bilateral entities, humanitarian funders, women and feminist funds, private and public philanthropy, academia, and select WHRDs.

This Gungano moves beyond reflection towards bold strategising: utilising insights from UAF-Africa’s grant-making praxis and data, peer feminist and women’s funds case studies. From women’s human rights leaders and peer human rights and humanitarian funders, we will interrogate how philanthropies must evolve to remain relevant, responsive, and rooted in African women’s rights and community realities.