No Limits, Kwale’s game-changing Gender Policy!

YSW’s Connect A Girl project is making waves in Kwale County! We’ve been pushing for the Kwale County Gender and Social Inclusion Policy, a game-changer for women and girls. This policy is all about equal representation, empowerment, and breaking down barriers in leadership, access to resources, and decision-making spaces.

It tackles real issues head-on harmful cultural practices like FGM, child marriage, teenage pregnancies, and wife inheritance, while ensuring gender-responsive policies in health, employment, infrastructure, water, justice, and the environment.

This document is under validation process by other gender experts to ensure it meets both the legal and gender threshold as a policy to adequately address the issues therein. The revised policy will be presented to the cabinet committee and then to the County Assembly for approval before the Kwale County Gender and Social Inclusion Policy revised draft is finally adopted.

This is more than a policy; it’s a bold step toward an inclusive, just, and equal future for every girl and woman in Kwale!