UN Women Kenya and its partners to
consecrate more empowerment efforts towards young women and adolescent girls. Young women and adolescent girls have been identified as catalysts of long-lasting change.
To empower young women and adolescent girls more purposefully, UN Women Kenya is calling for fast-tracking implementation of the not more than two thirds gender rule, the National Care Policy as well as the recommendations by the Gender Sector Working Group on Gender-violence including Femicide.
“The government of Kenya has been providing unwavering support to the Gender Equality and Women Empowerment agenda.
This is evident in several ways including government commitment in driving the two-thirds gender rule agenda, the National Care Policy – which is now with the cabinet for consideration, National Women Economic Empowerment Policy, Women Charter and recently, the establishment of a 42-member taskforce to address gender-based violence and femicide,” said Ms. Antonia N’gabala Sodonon, the Representative for UN Women in Kenya.
Under the banner of UN Women’s global campaign to mark the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, “For ALL Women and Girls”, UN Women’s call action is tied to three key areas:
• Advancing women’s and girls’ rights through fighting relentlessly for
women’s and girls’ full range of human rights, challenging all forms of violence, discrimination, and exploitation
• Promoting gender equality by addressing systemic barriers, dismantle
patriarchy, transform entrenched inequities, and elevate the voices of
marginalised women and girls, including young people, to ensure inclusivity
and empowerment.
• Fostering empowerment through redefining power structures by ensuring
inclusive access to education, employment, leadership, and decision-making spaces. Prioritise opportunities for young women and girls to lead and
innovate.
“Against overwhelming barriers faced by our Kenyan women and girls, we can
attest to the incredible milestones that they have achieved, catalysed by good
political will that we experience in our country and an enabling policy and legal
frameworks, key among them, the Constitution of Kenya 2010,” said Ms. Anne Wang’ombe, Principal Secretary, State Department for Gender, and Affirmative
