Impacts of Women in Political Leadership in Kenya
Struggle for Participation in Governance through Affirmative Action
Categories: Statebuilding
Sub-Categories: Democratization and Political Participation, Political Transitions
Country: Kenya
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Year: 2011
Citation: Nzomo, Maria. Impacts of Women in Political Leadership in Kenya: Struggle for Participation in Governance through Affirmative Action. Nairobi: Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies, 2011.
Sub-Categories: Democratization and Political Participation, Political Transitions
Country: Kenya
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Year: 2011
Citation: Nzomo, Maria. Impacts of Women in Political Leadership in Kenya: Struggle for Participation in Governance through Affirmative Action. Nairobi: Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies, 2011.
Abstract
Kenya is a country that is currently undergoing an important but challenging political transition, which is likely to shape and determine the nature and culture of governance institutions and processes that are being crafted through the constitutional implementation process now under way. The Women’s agenda is part of this process. The emerging trend in the implementation process has to date been uninspiring and calls for vigilance by the feminist groups that fought so hard and struggled for so long to have key gender provisions ingrained in the Bill of Rights. Some of these gains can be lost or indefinitely delayed during the enactment of legislations, and hence will require close collaboration between women in civil society and those in Parliament to protect and advance the gender agenda through the provisions of this new constitution.