The Collective Solidarity of Women Alliance (COSWA) is a feminist network of organizations and collectives dedicated to improving the lives of marginalized women in the Coast region of Kenya. Founded in 2015 by a group of young women and girls. COSWA exists to advocate for the rights, dignity and wellbeing of women in all their intersecting diversities.

Since her inception, COSWA has successfully mobilized its grassroot members to challenge stigma, discrimination and criminalization of all forms, championed access to comprehensive quality health and GBV services, led legislative advocacy campaigns, capacity strengthening programs on leadership and grass root movement building, reached over 10,000+ women and young girls with multiple intersecting vulnerabilities.

COSWA‘s target categories include LBQ sex workers, sex workers who Use/Inject drugs, transgender SWs, Migrant FSWs, PLHIV sex workers, women living with disability, Aging sex workers, young women engaged in sex work and the children of sex workers mainly in Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale, Taita-Taveta and partly Lamu and Tana-River.

COSWA continues to nurture leadership, self reliance and collective action, enabling women to become advocates of themselves and their communities.