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A general lack of awareness of legal provisions within the Sexual Offences Act (SOA) remains one of the key challenges in implementing the Act almost six years after it came into force in July 2006. A report on the implementation of the Act further mentions withdrawal of cases from the formal justice system due to [...]
Two Gender BACKUP partners, The Health Rights Advocacy Forum (Heraf) together with the Health NGO Network (HENNET) have undergone training on gender analysis as well as gender-sensitive and gender-transformative HIV programming. The training was informed by a baseline assessment on Civil Society Organizations’ (CSOs) capacity to engage in gender analysis, as well as gender-sensitive [...]
GIZ Kenya projects and programmes, including the Country Office will undergo Gender Audits within the next six months. This is thought as an assessment process for GIZ Kenya in identifying how gender issues are addressed in the internal organizational processes and it will help to identify good practices and gaps, promote organizational learning on how [...]
A conference to agitate for the rights of the sexual minorities was held in Nairobi at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies on the May 4-6 2011. The third regional “Changing Faces Changing Spaces” conference aimed at creating a space that will allow for inward interrogation and introspective analysis of the struggle on rights of [...]
Supported by the Health Sector Programme and the German BACKUP Initiative the NGO HERAF invited their partners and relevant stakeholders in order to provide an opportunity for civil society organisation to learn, share and exchange experiences with various partners. Dr. Klaus Hornetz, Programme Leader of the GIZ Health Sector Programme Kenya introduced a presentation on [...]
Samanta Sokolowski from the German BACKUP Initiative and Angelika Pochanke-Alff consultant to the BACKUP Initiative visited Kenya beginning of April. The purpose of the visit was to meet the partners that are benefiting from the BACKUP Gender support in Kenya and to participate in the Health Sector Programme partner meeting and in the HERAF civil [...]
The GIZ Health Programme through the Gender BACKUP Initiative has embarked on a project to strengthen and increase the capacity of the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK), the umbrella body championing the rights of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) in the community. This is being done through individual workshops with [...]
Kenyans in the recent past have, through the media, been treated to debate surrounding the highly contentious issue of homosexuality. Opinions have been aired from high ranking officials like the Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Minister for Special Programmes Esther Murugi to religious leaders and even the “common mwananchi” – the ordinary Kenyan, have had [...]