Activities

To provide policy direction and appropriate strategies, the Center’s activities revolve around:

(i) Gender and education

Ensure a gender responsive teaching and learning environment in the University
Implementation and Affirmative Action in admission of boys and girls from urban slums, ASALS and marginalized areas.
(ii) Gender and Governance

Foster Gender competence among women and men in all areas of governance and management.
Increase women’s participation in governance.
Institute mechanisms to monitor and evaluate gender responsiveness in the work environment.
(iii) Marginalized and Vulnerable Groups

Ensure that learners from marginalized and vulnerable groups are attached to the existing mentoring/counseling programs in Kenyatta University.
Provide appropriate techniques for resource mobilization for learners affected by abject poverty and other forms of discrimination.
(iv)Gender- Based Violence

Build and sustain networks on the elimination of GBV
Put deterrent measures on sexual harassment
Design and implement programs for elimination of other forms of Human rights abuse, besides GBV
(vii) Gender and Research.

Encourage gender responsive evidence-based research to inform policies on addressing gender issues in development.
Enhance the skills of female and male members of staff in writing Gender responsive proposals for funding.
(vii) Gender and HIV/AIDS

The Center collaborates with partners dealing with HIV/AIDS. In this, modalities for mitigating the negative impacts of the disease especially its impact on females at the institutional level are addressed. The focus is to empower women and men, boys and girls to make responsible sexual decisions.
(Vii) HeForShe Campaign

HeForShe is a solidarity campaign for the advancement of gender equality, initiated by UN. Its goal is to achieve equality by encouraging all genders to partake as agents of change and take action against negative stereotypes and behaviors. At the World Economic Forum in Davos Friday, January 23, 2015, UN Women, the United Nations entity dedicated to achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment unveiled the HeForShe IMPACT 10X10X10 pilot initiativeto galvanize momentum in advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment. This is a one-year pilot effort that aims to engage governments, corporations and universities as instruments of change positioned within some of the communities that most need to address deficiencies in women’s empowerment and gender equality and that have the greatest capacity to make and influence those changes. “HeForShe has signed up fathers who want to raise empowered daughters; leaders who know their societies will be stronger when there are as many women in parliament and in business as men; and ordinary people who are fed up with violence and discrimination against women – and want to be part of a global force for change.” UN sec General.

Led by our Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. K. Wainaina, Kenyatta University is a signatory to the initiative.