About Global Trauma Project (GTP)

Global Trauma Project (GTP) is a community-based organization, with over 10 years of experience breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma, gender-based violence, abuse, and neglect among hard-to-reach communities across Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa. Based in Kwale County, Kenya, GTP has been operational since 2016, supporting families, communities, organizations, and governments to build local capacity for effective trauma-informed change-making, ensuring changes on both systemic and local levels. GTP’s programs in Kenya have been focused on preventing and responding to Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and protecting children, youth and vulnerable people from the negative impacts of trauma.

Global Trauma Project builds capacity for healing, empowerment, and transformation by training, mentoring and certifying community providers to heal and prevent the impacts of gender-based violence, intergenerational trauma and toxic stress.

GTP works in three ways:

1) Building local capacity for trauma-informed, healing-centered programming: GTP equips civil society organizations with knowledge and skills to co-design and deliver culturally-relevant, trauma-informed programs in their communities.

2) Strengthening existing systems and structures to mainstream and integrate trauma-informed care: GTP mainstreams and integrates trauma-informed practices through advocacy, capacity-building, community partnerships, and cross sectoral integration, to create sustainable and impactful change.

3) GTP hosts the Institute for Trauma-Informed Change-Making, focused on 4 key areas:

Learn: GTP provides high-quality training and mentorship in trauma-informed change-making, to national practitioners launching healing initiatives in their communities.
Heal: Provides support, mentorship & impact evaluation to community change-makers offering healing-centered initiatives to reduce transmission of intergenerational trauma, within marginalized and under-resourced communities.
Change: GTP offers technical assistance to national network partners on integrating the TICM model into existing programs and systems, to prevent cycles of intergenerational trauma.
Connect: Cultivate a global network of trauma-informed, healing-centered change-makers in under-resourced areas, to foster connection, share best practices, and strengthen collective impact.