http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/161344 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:56:53 GMT 2026-04-08T20:56:53Z http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/167097 Gender Analysis Tools for Budget Preparation, Monitoring & Evaluation Kemboi, Leo Since its establishment in 2011, AWSC has been a vibrant program, focused on academic programs, innovative research, and evidence-based policy advocacy to create African women's knowledge and change the mainstream, influencing policy for social economic and political transformation for the benefit of African people, women in particular and for those who defend on women's work. One of the AWSC’s key programs, gender budgeting, and care economy research, has been ongoing since 2012. In collaboration with sector working groups, the center has analysed budgetary policies and fiscal estimates annually, irrespective of resource challenges. The program is supported by a robust think tank comprising scholars and experts from diverse fields. These include economists such as Prof. Kiriti Ng’ang’a and Prof. Mary Mbithi, both from the Department of Economics at the University of Nairobi, alongside Leo Kemboi from the Institute of Economic Affairs. Legal experts and consultants contributing to the program are: Dr. Agnes Meroka fromthe Faculty of Law University of Nairobi, who also coordinates the Networking and Alliance Building for Women’s Economic Empowerment (NABWEE), Dr. Linda Musumba, and Caroline Wambugu; Masheti Masinjila of Collaborative Center for Gender and Development (CCGD) and Daisy Amdancy of CRAWN Trust, bring their expertise of civil society organisations. Members of the AWSC include Dr. Marygoretty Akinyi, Wambui Kanyi (Coordinator County Women Network for Women’s Economic Empowerment), Brender Akoth, Duncan Kichamu, and Rachel Keeru. Ms. Wambui Kanyi has been instrumental in fostering strong relationships with the National Assembly and Senate, regularly liaising with clerks from both houses on issues related to public participation. Other members who have greatly supported the program include Prof Martine Oleche and Dr Samwel Wakibi. The project has grown much more over the last four years. With support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the center established a program on women’s economic empowerment (WEE Hub). AWSC expanded its focus on women’s economic empowerment by aligning proposals with Article 43 of the Constitution of Kenya. Budget Analysis Tool Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/167097 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/164399 WEE Hub Newsletter (Vol.1, Issue 04, Jan 2024) AWSC, Women's Economic Empowerment Hub At the Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Hub of the African Women Studies Centre (AWSC), now in its fourth year of implementation, we have made substantive progress in the implementation of the program working towards the full realization of women's economic empowerment. During the past years, we have worked with sector partners to enhance WEE through research and policy advocacy in a landscape where statistics show a marginally narrowing gender gap. Available data promises to demystify long-held myths about women’s experiences such as their inability to work with banks to access credit and that women in marriage institutions are not able to make business decisions. Data collected by the AWSC WEE Hub and other WEE actors and partners will shape the direction of WEE through entrepreneurship, a key sector of focus in the Kenyan economy and globally. The Hub is particularly testing the impact of a women-focused business incubation model for replication. WEE Hub Newsletter (Q.4) Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/164399 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/163795 WEE Hub Newsletter (Vol.1, Issue 03, Aug 2023) AWSC, Women's Economic Empowerment Hub Welcome to Volume 1, Issue 3 of the UoN WEE Hub Newsletter. The WEE Hub is committed, through research on entrepreneurship and employment to generate data that supports continuous evidence-based development of knowledge in the area of employment creation that informs policy decisions by policy makers and interventions by stakeholders. To this end, the African Women Studies Centre (AWSC) UoN WEE Hub has published two reports in this area. The first one being Women in the Labour Force in Kenya: A Focus on Employment and Entrepreneurship and the second one which was done in collaboration with the Kenya National Treasury was Assessing what Works for Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in the Implementation of Kenya’s Credit Guarantee Scheme http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/ handle/11295/163759. On the other hand, the impact of our Incubation Project continues to grow as we carry on with data collection and analysis as part of the project monitoring process. The research evidence illuminates what works for women’s economic empowerment and is utilized by policy makers and other stakeholders in decision making and project interventions. Our African Women’s Incubation model continues to shed light on the challenges women in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) face as individual women entrepreneurs as well as for women’s collectives business. Many actors have ventured into this sector because of the recognition by the Government and other stakeholders that growing the sector offers a solution to mitigating unemployment and poverty as well as growing the economy. According to the Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), MSMEs contribute to over 90% of the total labour force in Kenya, thus contributing to the reduction of poverty and positively influencing economic growth. The Report indicates that the MSMEs employ over 14.9 million Kenyans in various sectors of the economy, hence the need to rethink the concept of employment. Newsletter Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/163795 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/163716 WEE Hub Newsletter (Vol.1, Issue 02, Jun 2023) AWSC, Women's Economic Empowerment Hub Welcome to our second issue of the University of Nairobi Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Hub newsletter. The Hub is happy to continue interacting with you through this quarterly publication. The Year 2023 began in earnest and the team at the Hub made significant progress in the research process. Since its establishment in September 2020, the Women’s Economic Empowerment Program is now halfway in its five years life cycle. The Hub researchers have strived to make the Hub a leader in generating evidence which policy makers and development workers may use to positively influence social economic policies and programs related to WEE. The key areas of focus remain the Government Affirmative Action Funds and Programs; Entrepreneurship, Formal and Informal Employment; Care Economy and Women’s Work; and Women’s Self-mobilization for WEE. In addition to these thematic areas, we have collaborated with other partners to address other policy issues related to WEE. This has been done mostly in response to invitations by partners such as the State Department for Gender Affairs; the National Treasury; and the East African Community Department. Moreover, the Hub has embraced the rapid response strategy that has guided us to respond to other critical policies related to women’s economic empowerment. In the January to April 2023 quarter, the Hub made considerable progress in the implementation of its research agenda. During this period, some projects concluded their fieldwork, data analysis and processing, and report writing. The Hub also embarked on the dissemination of findings detailed in technical reports, and policy advocacy, using various platforms. One key strategy was dissemination through radio in collaboration with the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation in two phases through which the Hub reached more than twenty million people. Evidence based advocacy work continued to receive a boost from the Networking and Alliance Building for Women’s Economic empowerment (NABWEE). We established new partnerships and strengthened existing ones in relation to the Women’s Business Incubation Project, which is featured in this issue where individual women’s businesses and collectives underwent technology training. The Hub leadership continues to develop the capacity of our researchers through workshops and training while working with other internal and external experts and stakeholders to fulfill our vision to be thought-leader in producing cutting-edge, innovative, rigorous, and accessible evidence through research for impacting policy formulation, implementation and up-scaling for the full realization of women’s empowerment. We are delighted to share these milestones and hope you too will support our efforts towards the realization of women’s economic empowerment. Prof. Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira, University of Nairobi WEE Hub Leader & Director, African Women Studies Centre WEE Hub Newsletter Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/163716 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z