The League of Kenya Women Voters
The League of Kenya Women Voters is a non –partisan
political women’s membership organization, founded in 1992
to advance the rights of women in elective, political, leadership
and other positions of decision making. Currently boasting a membership
of over 20,000 members nationally, The League is moving towards
achieving its vision of a democratic society in Kenya in which
women are adequately and effectively empowered, and are recognised
equally as men in their political, social and economical contributions
through activities under four main programs namely:
- The Electoral and Women
Leadership Program mobilizes, identifies and works with
women leaders in capacity building, political party dialogue
and other gender governance initiatives in order to create
public demand for women’s leadership in Kenya.
- The Governance and Human
Rights Program works to ensure that national legislation
and state policies are responsive to needs of women.
- The Communications, Research
and Gender Advocacy Program builds in relevant research
and documentation to support and improve women’s leadership
and provides a forum for dissemination of information to
the public.
- The Economic Empowerment
Program empowers women economically to use their financial
stability too pursue democratic ideals by providing an opportunity
to women to save money and get loans at very subsidized
rates.
SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT:
The Project is entitled “Promoting women’s
participation in the management, monitoring and evaluation of
decentralized funds in Bondo district” and aims to promote
the participation of women in the management, monitoring and evaluation
of decentralized funds. This will instill accountability in the
management of the funds to ensure realization of gender equity
in utilization of these funds as a human rights issue. Key activities
to be undertaken during the pilot project include:
- Conduct a needs assessment
in the district to assess levels of participation.
- Enhance capacity of paralegals
to participate and monitor decentralized funds through training,
- Develop a monitoring scorecard;
- Develop message audiotapes
to be used by paralegals in their radio listening groups
to increase awareness and stimulate debate on specific issues
related to decentralized funds;
- Obtain information on best
practices from other pilot projects on decentralized funds
and share them with women and the various committees in
Bondo district.
The target funds include: the Constituency Development
Fund, (CDF), The Local Authority Transfer Fund (LATF), and the
Constituency Bursary. By the end of the implementing period, the
League envisions a culture where women’s capacity to participate
in the management of the decentralized funds is fully utilized
and also ensuring that accountability in the management of these
funds is upheld.
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