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    "content": "Under No.8 - Counties are aligning their monitoring and evaluation operations, projects and programmes to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators, particularly SDG No.5 that addresses compliance with gender equality. Question No.4 is on the Government of Kenya action to ensure adherence to two- thirds gender principle in all key sectors of national and county governments. The Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs through the State Department of Gender affairs, in partnership with other gender sectors working groups, has done the following:- (i) Conducting sensitization of human resource managers. (ii) Implementation of National Gender Policy (NGP). (iii) The Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs through the State Department of Gender Affairs, together with the COGs, has established and operationalized the intergovernmental structures on gender and development through formation of joint steering and joint technical committees on gender. These committees work together and separately to sensitize, lobby and build the capacity of human resource officers to comply with the two-thirds gender rule when employing and promoting staff at national and county levels. (i) The Ministry has been strengthening operations and the structures of gender empowerment groups. (ii) The Ministry has recruited gender officers who have been deployed to counties. (iii) The State Department of Gender affairs as the Government major machinery for advancement of women social, economic and political interests, with support from the European Union (EU), developed a strategy for greater participation of women in politics and decision making (2017). (iv) The National Gender and Equality Commission provides oversight and reports to Parliament on compliance to the two-thirds gender rule. Those are the responses we have. The response has been signed by Prof. Margaret Kobia, PhD, MGH, Cabinet Secretary, on 7th March, 2018."
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