Research Areas

Enhancing Reproductive Health Status for All Kenyans

SGBV is a common phenomenon against women and girls and is a major human rights violation not only in Kenya but across the globe. The Report reveals that women are disproportionately affected by GBV and this is evident by the fact that violence initiated by wives was only a fraction of the level of violence initiated by husbands. The report discloses further that violence against men generally is minimal and it stands at 3%. This is not to say that men and boys are not subjected to the violence but women are disproportionally affected by the vice.

This Sessional Paper on Population Policy for National Development presents a policy framework whose goal is  to attain high quality of life for the people of Kenya by managing population growth to a level that can be sustained with the available resources. The principal objective of the Policy is to provide a framework that will  guide national population programmes and activities for the next two decades. It recognises and puts into  consideration international and national emerging and continuing population concerns.

The Constitution of Kenya 2010 provides the overarching legal framework to ensure a comprehensive rights-based approach to health services delivery. It provides that every person has a right to the highest attainable standard of health, which includes reproductive health rights. It further states that a person shall not be denied emergency medical treatment and that the State shall provide appropriate social security to persons who are unable to support themselves and their dependants.

Kenya Health Act No.21 of 2017

Kenya Government Commitments to Gender

Education is a fundamental human right and is key to individual, social and national development. It offers the opportunity to realise the attainment of human rights and is an important vehicle for addressing inequality and marginalisation. The Education Sector Gender Policy is geared towards a human rights based approach, ensuring equal rights to education for boys and girls, men and women.

The substantive economic growth of the last decade has brought Kenya into the low middle-income country category in 2014. For the period of focus of this report, 2005/06 to 2015/16, growth in Kenya averaged 5.3 percent, higher than the 4.9 percent observed for sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. Overall, growth was powered by the service sector, which now accounts for almost half of the nation’s GDP. The remarkable expansion of telecommunication and mobile-based financial services shifted the economic paradigm of Kenya to an extent rarely seen in developing economies.

Education, training and research is a major platform for national socio-economic transformation. Thus, the Government of Kenya, in its commitment to transforming education, training and research, has instituted a number of measures based on findings of various commissions and task forces. The National Conference on Education, Training and Research held in November, 2003 culminated in the development of Sessional Paper No. 1 of 2005, a Policy Framework for Education, Training and Research, which has largely been guiding education, training and research in the country.

This policy takes into account the recent developments nationally, regionally and globally, on the continuing and emerging population and development challenges, while building on the achievements of the past policies.