In 2011 Sauti Ya Wanawake Pwani was legally registered as an NGO under the Ministry of State for National Heritage and Culture. SYWP was formed to act as a mouthpiece to champion issues affecting women and to challenge oppressive systems.
Sauti Ya Wanawake for over a decade now has worked with grassroots women organizations known as Sauti Chapters all over the six counties of the coastal region of Kenya that is, Kilifi, Kwale, Lamu, Mombasa, Taita Taveta, and Tana River, mainly tackling the entrenched cultural norms and challenging oppressive structures.