President William Ruto Pledges On Women Agenda

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President William Ruto Pledges On Women Agenda

Women agenda

Participation of women in the key sectors of our economy is minimal, and a vast majority of them remain in low-income jobs or enterprises and endure poor working conditions. Women are largely excluded from participation and decision-making in our governance and political institutions; Millions of women and girls continue to suffer from sexual and gender-based violence.

Health services are inadequate, inaccessible and unaffordable to millions of women in our country. Environmental degradation impacts more women, increases their responsibilities in unpaid care work, at the farms and in the community, thereby accelerating poverty, early marriages, childhood pregnancies and other adverse consequences for women.

Kenya Kwanza Commitment

  • Provide financial and capacity building support for women through the Hustler Fund for women-led co-operative societies, chamas, merry-go-rounds and table banking initiatives and protect them from predatory interest rates charged by unscrupulous money lenders;
  • Implement the two-thirds gender rule in elective and appointive positions in the public sector within 12 months after the elections including 50 per cent cabinet positions for women;
  • Increase the number of, and personnel at, gender desks at police stations;
  • Increase funding for the Anti-Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Board and fully implement the anti-FGM law;
  • Establish a social welfare fund for Kenyan women working abroad to provide a safety net for distressed diaspora citizens;
  • Ensure deployment of adequate numbers of skilled community health workers on a regular stipend paid through a cost-sharing framework between the National Government and county governments;
  • Ensure availability of clean, safe, environmentally-friendly and affordable cooking fuels;
  • Provide free sanitary towels in all schools and public washrooms;
  • Take administrative measures to ensure 100 per cent enforcement of the spousal consent legal provisions in land transactions to cushion women and children from dispossession of family land.

SOURCE: Citizen Digital

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