In 2009, when the Joint Programme on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (JP GEWE) started, the implementation of national priorities in the area of gender equality and women’s empowerment in Kenya was hampered by inadequate resources (in terms of availability, retention, motivation, and capacity building), together with severe financial constraints. The Government of Kenya (GoK) and United Nations (UN) joint programme sought to tackle the above challenges with the ultimate objective of helping to change a situation…
The objective of the “One UN” is to improve the impact, coherence, efficiency, effectiveness and positioning of the UN system in Kenya to enable it better assist the country to meet the MDGs and Vision 2030. This will be achieved through One Programme, One Budgetary Framework, One Office, One Leader and Communicating as One.