The Gender Policy Vision
The vision of this policy is a just society where men, women, boys, and girls live free of negative discrimination, marginalization, disempowerment, and violence and instead enjoy equal rights and opportunities in social, economic, and political domains of life.
Overall objective
To guide institutionalization and operationalization of gender mainstreaming in all sectors of County Government functions.
Specific objectives
a) Engender County policies and laws with the Constitution and domesticated international and regional treaties, conventions, protocols, and commitments to promote gender equality.
b) Provide a framework to integrate and mainstream gender equality and empowerment approaches into the County’s development planning and budgeting and the resultant
c) Promote and support the rights-based approach across all sectors bearing in mind that gender is a cross-cutting issue.
d) Eliminate all forms of Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) through consultative and inclusive preventive and responsive strategies and mechanisms.
e) Strengthen institutional structures to collect and analyze gender disaggregated data.
f) Define institutional frameworks and performance indicators for effective tracking, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting the implementation of gender equality and empowerment principles.
