Daniel Peter Onyango Email & Phone Number

I am 40 years self-driven individual who has a strong passion in realizing a sustainable society through offering my skills and expertise to give solutions to the current evolving community problems. I draw my motivation from the plight of the sexual and gender marginalized persons in our society who are living in absolute rejection due to their sexual orientation and gender identity which the greater community does not understand. My personal mission is to build on my experience on community empowerment services, advocacy and paralegal activities in line to the concern of minority groups in the entire world with an aim of upbringing an equitable, free ,justice and fair society where self-acceptance and societal understanding and diversity is upheld.I am a Researcher, Medical Practitioner, Human Right defender, Activist and for 15 years experience, I served as the Executive Director and the founder of Nyanza Rift Valley Western Kenya LGBTI Network (NYARWEK) that advocates for the rights of the LGBTI persons in Western Kenya. I am also a qualified researcher who has led and participated in different research programs aimed at improving the Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights of the key populations in Kenya.Founder and former chair person for the Key Population Consortium for four years, an advocacy platform that brings together all the national key population Networks that champion for the rights of the key populations in Kenya. These include the Kenya Sex Worker Alliance (KESWA), Kenya Harm Reduction Network (KHRN), Kenya Network of People who Use Drugs ( KENPUD), Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya ( GALCK), Nyanza Rift Valley Western Kenya LGBTI Network (NYARWEK),and the GMT HIV Prevention Network of Kenya (GHPN-Ke) last the Transgender Network. I have a vast experience on Program Management, Resource Mobilization, strategic leadership, Organization and system strengthening, M and E, Budget resourcing, Domestic Resource Mobilization and strategic Plan development and implementation

Listed skills include Capacity Building, Nonprofits, Community Development, Program Development, and 14 others.