Kivulini’s main focus is on primary prevention, that is changing the attitudes and assumptions that undergird the violence against women. 

Kivulini has helped to empower women’s groups with economic knowledge and skills in order to start and sustain their own businesses and thus reduce their dependency and related forms of violence against them. In year 2007-2009, we trained 300 women from 10 women’s groups based in Mwanza. Today, these women’s groups such as Tukwamuane and ChemChemi operate independently and are continuing to pass on the skills and knowledge we first helped them develop.