CREAW was pleased to represent Civil Society Organisations and the women of Kenya at the recent Government of Kenya (GoK) – UN Joint Programme on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (JP GEWE) training workshop to strengthen the capacity of government to collect, analyse and use sex disaggregated data (SDD), held in Mombasa in mid-July 2013. Run jointly by UN Women and the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, the workshop focused on gender mainstreaming across statistics gathering activities in Government Ministries.
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The Nairobi Brain Trust (NBT) Network is a composition of approximately 20 organisations who work with vulnerable adolescent girls in Kenya. It was formed in 2008 to gather best practices in programming for adolescent girls and to create a community that could share ideas and practices. CREAW has been supported by the American Jewish World Service to implement this program over the last year.
In the month of October, CREAW case managers from Kamukunji organized a community forum in Shauri Moyo estate, Nairobi, to sensitise the community on Sexual Offences Act, Gender Based Violence and , Human and Children Rights and Steps to take when a rape/ defilement has occurred with referral mechanisms as stipulated by CREAW training manuals. During the training, the CREAW case managers informed the community participants that defilement is both way regardless of whether it is an adult male defiling a girl child or whether it is an adult female defiling a boy child. They engaged the participants largely on the issues and sought the community’s commitment to ending sexual related violations and abuses within themselves and outside their communities.