Transcript NATIONAL COMMISSION ON GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT The Impact of Development Cooperation in Reaching MDGs Presented by: REGINA G.MWATHA (Ph.D) CHAIRPERSON, NATIONAL COMMISSION ON GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT.

NATIONAL COMMISSION ON GENDER AND
DEVELOPMENT
The Impact of Development Cooperation
in Reaching MDGs
Presented by: REGINA G.MWATHA (Ph.D)
CHAIRPERSON, NATIONAL COMMISSION ON GENDER AND
DEVELOPMENT KENYA
Development Cooperation Forum Helsinki, Finland June 3rd4th.2010
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Convention on the Elimination of all forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
The Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies for the
advancement of women (NFLS)
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The Beijing Platform of Action
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The MDGs
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AU Protocol- signed and not ratified
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EAC Treaty
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National Gender Policy (2000)
Sessional Paper No 2 of 2006 on Gender
equality and development
Sexual Offences Act, 2006
National Vision 2030 goals
National Medium Term Plans
30% Presidential directive on public sector
that all employment and promotion must be
women
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Kenya External Resources Policies- Almost
complete
Proposed new constitution- being debated
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To initiate the implementation of the 2005
Paris Declaration on ‘Aid Effectiveness’, the
Government of Kenya (GoK) has set up a four
tier hierarchy aid coordination structure for
donors to better harmonize, align, and
coordinate their activities.
the Aid Effectiveness Group (AEG) at
technical level, discussing specifically the
technical support from aid.
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Donor Coordination Group involving the donor
community for harmonising themselves
The high-level Development Partnership Forum
convened by the Prime Minister that discusses
additional issues including political that may affect
implementation of programmes
The National Executive and Social Council chaired
by the President discuss policy at the highest level
in the country
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1998, the establishment of the Gender Donor Round
Table (GDRT). Designed as a platform for discussion
on the implications of the Paris Declaration for
gender equality and to coordinate activities among
players, GDRT fostered strategic engagement in a
process of donor harmonization, alignment and
coordination (HAC) and awareness-raising among
members on gender equality issues in Kenya
The development of the Kenya Joint Assistance
Strategy (KJAS) 2008-2012 provided the framework
for donor support to national development planning,
and gave impetus to several initiatives to address
gender equality.
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The framework for expansion has been the
Kenya Vision 2030 and the Medium Term Plan
(MTP), which has focused on rapid growth
with macroeconomic stability, rehabilitation
and expansion of infrastructure, investment
in human capital, strengthening institutions
of governance and revitalizing productive
sectors.
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In line with the 2002- 2007 Economic
Recovery for Wealth and Employment
Creation (ERWEC) the Vision 2030 and the
MTP was designed by taking full cognizance
of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Aid Effectiveness Group (AEG) meets once
every month while the Development
Partnership Forum meets four times a year
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2005 the GOK created the Public Finance
Management Reform coordinating Unit (PFMR)
to serve as a secretariat or focal point to
coordinate reforms. PFMR constituted by
government and development partners
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After the Post election violence of 2008
The Truth Justice and Reconciliation
commission -2009
National Cohesion and Reconciliation
cohesion -2009
Independent Interim Electoral Commission2008
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Aid has focused largely on:
Gender-based violence issues;
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Governance, human Rights and justice systems
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Education and health,
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HIV and AIDS just to mention a few key areas
Commitment to support resources (capital
human resources) for national gender
machineries to capacitate them deliver on
their mandate
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purposeful direction in programmatic
gender mainstreaming in all government
sectors And partnered at all times with the
national gender machinery at the national
level
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More
focus
needed
in
the
actual
implementation
of
international
and
regional conventions and protocols as well
as national laws that address gender and
women rights issues more seriously
More
focus
needed
in
measuring
implementation
of
international
and
regional conventions and protocols as well
as laws that address gender and women
rights issues more seriously
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Support processes in the enactment of Laws
and policies supporting gender equality and
reviewing of laws and policies which are
gender blind
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Most resources are focused on infrastructure
programmes which is good, but more needs
to be done to support micro-finance and
small enterprises for women and poor men
accessing markets, on value addition,
handling taxation, and connecting with local
authorities
Micro-finance has been very successful in
Kenya. This will directly impact on the MDGs
of reducing poverty and hunger
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The impact of development assistance need
to be tracked using nationally agreed
monitoring indicators developed by the local
government and the development partners as
well as civil society and the media.
More aid could flow in the arena of
establishing baselines, which help measure
up to date especially on poverty issues etc.
This will enable monitoring take off from a
known avenue.
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Strengthen subsequent institutions on a
single chain of service provision.
Gender Responsive Budgeting which is not
getting a lot of attention from development
partners is critical for the response and
preventions of GBV; in ensuring equality on
the all the other MDGs and for Kenya the
Pillars of the Vision 2030
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Although GRB is tedious and takes long to get
results, studies in developing countries and
in Africa show that high Gender Budget
Support recipients have performed better,
often significantly so, in the four MDGs
covering primary enrolment, gender parity in
education, child mortality, and access to
water, and also in terms of improvements in
the Human Development Index, in the period
2002-2007. This finding applied across all
ODA recipients, across ACP countries only,
and (with the exception of child mortality)
across Africa (Jonathan Beynon and Andra
Dusu 2010)
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Need to increase use of existing financial and
procurement systems to cut the cost of aid
delivery as indicated in Paris Declaration
Need to increase the programmes especially
to government parastatals and national
gender machinery through the basket funding
rather than Appropriation in Aid ( A in A)
because it is difficult to monitor by the
respective national government
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At the national level programming and
consequent financial disbursements could try
and adjust to the national financial budget
year