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UN Women - Kenya - Gabrille Olivia

Gabrille Olivia from the Republic of Kenya sits on the United Nation Women committee. Her topic is Kenya's action on achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 5 on achieving gender equality and empowering women. Kenya aims to improve tracking of its progress using the UN Women's 2030 agenda. However, Kenya currently ranks 109 out of 153 countries in terms of gender inequalities. The UN and organizations like USAID are supporting Kenya's efforts to achieve the SDGs and address issues like lack of access to services for girls and underrepresentation of women in leadership.
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UN Women - Kenya - Gabrille Olivia

Gabrille Olivia from the Republic of Kenya sits on the United Nation Women committee. Her topic is Kenya's action on achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 5 on achieving gender equality and empowering women. Kenya aims to improve tracking of its progress using the UN Women's 2030 agenda. However, Kenya currently ranks 109 out of 153 countries in terms of gender inequalities. The UN and organizations like USAID are supporting Kenya's efforts to achieve the SDGs and address issues like lack of access to services for girls and underrepresentation of women in leadership.
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Name : Gabrille Olivia

Committee : United Nation Women


Country : Republic of Kenya
Topic : Kenya’s Action on Sustainable Development Goals
Republic of Kenya is one of the countries in Eastern Africa. Kenya also known as a
member of United Nation. Kenya also has a responsibility to take an action for
reaching SDGs Goals, that is to reach gender equality and women’s empowerment at
there. Kenya can improve tracking by using 2030 Agenda that already had prepared
by UN-Women. It agenda recognized by all countries and as a unprecedented scope
and significant. In that agenda talk about how women can play a vital role as a agent
of developments. It same as SDGs goals that all women and girls have an equal right
and opportunity and be able to live free of violence and discrimination. (In focus:
Women and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 5: Gender equality |
UN Women – Headquarters)
Based on Kenya Gap Gender report is shown that 0.697-point ranks 109 out of the
153 countries that significant with inequalities between males and females in
education attainment, health outcomes, representation in parliament, and
participations in the labor market remain. To address these issues, USAID (United
States Agency for International Development) Kenya and East Africa (KEA) will
apply learning and adaptive approaches that integrate gender which align with the
Government of Kenya’s priorities and commitments to ensure that all individuals –
men, boys, women, girls, as well as all vulnerable and marginalized individuals – are
included and benefit from Kenya’s economic and social transformation.
The UN also supporting Kenya to achieve SDGs 5 (gender equality) goals that are a
global call to action to end poverty. Based on Equal Measures 2030, it shown that at
SDG 5, Kenya point is 55% which mean it above regional average. Many girls and
women still lack access to basic services, and women remain underrepresented in
decision-making positions and political leadership. Instead of it, Kenya’s Government
make a Plan of Action to implement the National Policy on Gender and Development
that launched in 2008 last years. The impact of legal and policy frameworks on the
lives of girls and women, however, has been undermined by weak implementation
and a lack of gender-responsive budgeting.
UN-Women can promote women leadership is by join the commission, because it
emphasized is to promote and protection of women right, include leaderships. Be the
best role model when must to lead the group discussion and do not interrupt the
others. As SDG 8 said to promote gender equality that women can also lead in any
work, economically, and social policy. To promote leadership, change the mindset
that good leadership has no gender. In Kenya, there is a push for gender neutrality,
from Kenyan boards to government and corporate procurement. Laila Macharia once
said that the best leaders – male and female – invest in education, experience,
exposure and hold themselves to high standards, both in performance and integrity,
what hinders women from becoming leaders in the workplace.
Next step is to be trusted is a fundamental barrier. In the discussion session, Laila
mentioned that laws and regulation in place to allocate certain amount of procurement
budget to women run companies, trust is a huge barrier that many deals just go to the
pals of the decision makers. Deals with traditional values in Kenya is difficult,
because the fact is that Kenya is still rooted in tradition that men automatically lead
all systems, and women are meant to mothers and dutiful to preparing tea while at
meeting table. This gap makes that hinders the growth of women to be strong
negotiators and leaders. She encouraged women to not take such incidents –
prejudice, ignorance or insecurity to exposed – too seriously, and focus instead on
their own goals and priorities. Being authentic and young are actually very attractive
qualities, especially when women are trying to get people attention and invest in
them. Women shouldn’t wait to be invited to sit at the table and told they are leaders,
but should practice leadership whenever they can, and seize every opportunity
available.
To deals with any challenge in gender equality such as violence against women,
women need to adopt, review, and ensure the accelerated and implementation of laws.
Be kind, recognize that as a women we have a right to control over anything and
decide freely – responsibly on related to their sexuality, to engage boys and men out
there to eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls. In
Kenya, there is a platform that called GEP (Gender Empowerment Platform) aims to
address gender issues and gender-based violence in the Kenyan since 2017. It believes
that women are key to driving growth and sustainability – however in Kenya,
possibilities for women to engage in supply chains have traditionally been limited, for
example, women are often financially excluded. Since 2017, GEP together with UTK
(Unilever Tea Kenya) and IDH (The Sustainable Trade Initiative) has been working to
raise greater awareness of these issues among workers, and help tackle them through
entrepreneurship skills and women’s empowerment.
The 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, 45% of women ang girls aged 15-
49 have experienced physical violence and 14% have experienced sexual violence. It
shown that government at there always tolerate with such issues and response with
inadequate, because many victims do not get justice, medical assistance, or counseling
following sexual violence. Kenyan ask government at there to set up an Office of the
Special Rapporteur on Sexual Violence, as a recommended by both the Commision of
Inquiry into the 2007-2008 Post-Election Violence and the Truth, Justice, and
Reconciliation Commission. If the Office effectively set up, it could help strengthen
efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, help people deal
with the aftereffects of violence, and help make sure perpetrators are brought to
justice.
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