Kenya Education and Training Sector Gender Policy 2015

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 Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) has undertaken the review of the Gender in Education Policy (2007), to incorporate emerging issues that have implications on gender equity and equality in the Education Sector.

The policy adopts a wide perspective of equality that includes girls and boys, women and men, rather than a focus on just girls and women. Within the constitutional and legal framework provisions, the gender policy advocates for more equal participation between women and men, girls and boys; and acknowledges that gender equality does
not mean that women and girls are the same as men and boys, and vice versa, but that gender should not be used to determine access to education and educational outcomes.