Jane Anyango

{{short description|Kenyan activist}}

Jane Anyango Odongo is a Kenyan activist for peace and for women's and girls' rights.{{cite news|title=Slum woman with a big heart|url=https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/lifestyle/article/2000032912/slum-woman-with-a-big-heart|accessdate=1 August 2017|work=Standard Digital|date=10 April 2011}}{{cite news|last1=Orlale|first1=Odhiambo|title=Jane Anyango – Community activist mobilises slum women in peace building|url=http://kw.awcfs.org/article/jane-anyango-community-activist-mobilises-slum-women-in-peace-building/|accessdate=1 August 2017|work=Kenyan Woman|date=1 December 2014}}{{cite web|title=Jane Anyango Odongo, Global Peace Ambassador, key note speaker|url=http://www.femalewaveofchange.com/jane-anyango-odongo-speaker-at-the-wave/|publisher=Female Wave of Change|accessdate=1 August 2017|date=6 February 2017|archive-date=2 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802010124/http://www.femalewaveofchange.com/jane-anyango-odongo-speaker-at-the-wave/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Jane Anyango – Kenya|url=http://voicesofwomen.org/podcasts/jane-anyango-kenya/|publisher=iVOW:Voices of Women|accessdate=1 August 2017}}{{cite web|title=Jane Anyango|url=http://www.sandiego.edu/peace/institutes/ipj/women-peace-security/women-peacemakers/profile.php?name=jane+anyango&country=kenya|website=Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice|publisher=University of San Diego|accessdate=1 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818094110/http://www.sandiego.edu/peace/institutes/ipj/women-peace-security/women-peacemakers/profile.php?name=jane+anyango&country=kenya|archive-date=18 August 2017|url-status=dead}} She is a grassroots activist and peacemaker, residing in one of the largest slums in Kenya. She is known for mobilizing hundreds of women who helped mitigate post election violence in the elections of 2007 and 2013. Her strategy included using women's influence on the men causing the violence, her slogan ' get the fighting men to stop the violence'.She is the founder and director of the Polycom Development Project, which empowers girls and young women in the Kibera slum area.{{cite web|title=Our Team|url=http://polycomgirls.org/our-team/|publisher=Polycom Development Project|accessdate=1 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828115541/http://polycomgirls.org/our-team/|archive-date=28 August 2017|url-status=dead}} The project focuses on topics such as hygiene, climate change, cohesion, grassroots organzining, amongst others.{{Cite web|title=Interview with Polycom’s Jane Anyango on gender inequality and women and girls’ engagement in Kenya – Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)|url=https://gcap.global/news/interview-with-polycoms-jane-anyango-on-gender-inequality-and-women-and-girls-engagement-in-kenya/?lang=es|access-date=2021-04-16|website=gcap.global}} Her main outcome in the long run is to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal 10, reducing inequalities.In 2010 Peace X Peace organisation gave her its Community Peacebuilder Award.{{cite web|title=2010 Community Peacebuilder: Anyango Jane Odongo|url=http://www.peacexpeace.org/2010/11/2010-community-peacebuilder-anyango-jane-odongo/|publisher=Peace X Peace|accessdate=1 August 2017|date=23 November 2010|archive-date=7 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607174716/http://www.peacexpeace.org/2010/11/2010-community-peacebuilder-anyango-jane-odongo/|url-status=dead}}

In 2016 she was one of four women invited to University of San Diego for two months on its annual Women PeaceMakers scheme.{{cite news|title=USD's 'Women PeaceMakers' offer messages that hit home|url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/lifestyle/people/sd-me-peacemakers-20160926-story.html|accessdate=1 August 2017|work=The San Diego Union-Tribune|date=1 October 2016}}