Quick information guide

Kenya Government’s leads by example in Gender Equality and Women Empowerment. It has established a Women Enterprise Fund

Aim:

to provide accessible and affordable credit to support women start and/or expand business for wealth and employment creation.

Loans provided by the Fund:

  • Constituency women enterprise scheme
  • LPO Financing
  • Bill bond Financing; and
  • Sacco lending

Other services:

  • Capacity building
  • Market support; and
  • Linkages

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Contacts.

Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs.

Directorate of Youth Affairs.
 P.O. Box 34303-00100.
Nairobi-Kenya.
Harambee House,
Harambee Avenue

Empowernment Programmes for Women In Kenya

In Kenya, the population of people living below the poverty line has declined from 46.8% in 2005/06 to 36.1% in 2015/16, according to the 17th edition of the Kenya Economic Update.

Women in the Kenyan contribute significantly to the economy of the country both directly or indirectly and therefore stirring up the economy out of such a high poverty index would need measures put in place for economic empowerment of Kenyan women.

The government of Kenya has established funds and policies such as the 30% procurement allocation for all government tenders so that more women may have an entry chance in such a competitive space. Private Sector Organisations have also set up programmes to empower women.

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Mirror of Hope - CBO

The women project was born from one horrible statistic of women in Kibera dying from HIV/AIDS prevalence. Most of them widowed, these women had submitted to the fact that having the disease was the end of it all and the stigma from the society was too much to bear to even start with. As a result, most were losing their lives leaving many families broken and many children homeless.

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List of services provided by the program

This program was initially formed to bring hope back to these women whose lives had hit rock bottom. The agenda was to show these women whom society had neglected that there was still a second chance and the society still had a place to them. From encouraging them to take their drugs to changing their perspective to becoming self- relied entrepreneurs, we have managed to create a wave of positivity and change. Through support these women are emerging victors prior to their initial victim state. Now targeting all economically vulnerable women in the slum, the program is making tremendous achievements in sustainable development of women in Kibera.

Contacts

Mirror of Hope C.B.O
P.O. Box 1725 Nairobi 00502 Kenya

Email:

Phone : (+254) 20 232 32 73 / Mobile: (+254) 732 553 519

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