About IFAGE
We believe the communities closest to the problem are also closest to the solution.
IFAGE works across East and Central Africa alongside the leaders, institutions, and people who shape how communities live - to advance gender justice from the inside out.
Who we are
More than an organisation. A movement rooted in community.
In the communities where IFAGE works, change does not begin in a policy office or a government programme. It begins with the people a community already trusts - the leaders who have been there for decades, who know every family, who speak at funerals and bless marriages and settle disputes.
Those are the people we work with. And because we work where communities are - rather than where we think they should be - we reach people and places that most organisations do not.
Mission
Our Mission
To prevent all forms of violence against women and children by engaging community gatekeepers through dialogue, capacity strengthening, advocacy, mentorship, and survivor-centred support.
Vision
Our Vision
A world where women and children are safe, equal, and free from violence, with opportunity and sustainable support systems.
Reach
Our Reach
Headquartered in Siaya, Kenya, IFAGE has trained over 2,800 community and faith leaders, run five Pan-African conferences, and built a movement that now spans 17 countries. The Positive Masculinity curriculum is used by organisations in Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Mozambique. In Siaya County, 440 women are in active livelihood groups. And in 2027, IFAGE brings the continent together again in Kampala.
Values
What we stand on.
Equality
We believe every person - regardless of gender, age, background, or religion - possesses inherent dignity and equal worth. That belief is not the starting point of our advocacy. It is the foundation of everything we do.
Inclusivity
Gender justice is not a women's issue. It is a community issue. We work with women, men, girls, boys, youth, survivors, persons with disabilities, and the leaders who shape community life - because lasting change requires all of them.
Integrity
Honesty is not a policy for us. It is how we work.
Teamwork & Accountability
We do not do this work alone. We work in partnership, hold ourselves to high standards, and take responsibility.
Our story
Built from a conviction. Grown from community trust.
IFAGE was founded on a simple but stubborn conviction: that faith communities are not the problem to be worked around - they are among the most powerful forces for change when they are equipped and willing.
For too long, faith communities were written off by the gender justice movement - seen as too traditional, too patriarchal, too resistant. IFAGE's founders looked at the same communities and saw something different: men and women with moral authority, pastoral reach, and the kind of grassroots trust that no NGO can buy or replicate. They saw communities that were ready - if someone came alongside them with the right tools and the right respect.
Registered in Kenya in 2013, IFAGE has spent over a decade building that trust - one training, one dialogue, one community at a time. Today, more than 2,800 faith and community leaders have been trained. Five Pan-African conferences have been convened. The Positive Masculinity curriculum is being used across five countries.
The 2026-2031 strategy marks a new chapter - not a reinvention, but a sharpening. A clearer model, deeper community roots, and an organisation built to carry this work forward for the long term.
Leadership
Governed for accountability and long-term impact.
Rev. Domnic Misolo
Executive Director
Rev. Domnic Misolo is the founder and Executive Director of IFAGE. A theologian, pastor, and gender justice advocate, he has spent over two decades working at the intersection of faith, community, and social change across East and Central Africa. He is the driving voice behind the Pan-African Faith and Gender Justice Conference and the architect of IFAGE's Positive Masculinity approach.
Board of Directors
IFAGE is governed by a skilled Board with a 50:50 gender ratio, chaired by a woman, and composed of leaders from theology, law, public health, development finance, and civil society.