Alice Muthoni Wahome

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think the audio system needs to be checked. This particular microphone behaved the same way yesterday. I like sitting at that corner. I am moving this Motion, on behalf of the leader of delegation, Hon. Purity Ngirici, who led this delegation to New York. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House notes the Report of the Delegation to the 62nd Session of the Commission on Status of Women (CSW62) held in New York, United States of America (USA), from 12th to 23rd March 2018, laid on the Table ... view
• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Report is fairly lengthy. It is 53 pages. I will go through it as much as possible but I will try to be brief so that we can cover most of the issues raised in it. view
• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Between 12th and 23rd March 2018, it was the pleasure of the leader of delegation, together with Members of Parliament, including Senators, to attend the 62nd Session of the Commission on Status of Women that took place in New York, USA. The Commission on Status of Women (CSW) is a principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women. The CSW is instrumental in promoting women’s rights, documenting the reality of women’s lives throughout the world and shaping global standards on gender equality and empowerment of women. The Commission’s annual two-weeks session is ... view
• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I hope the Members who are consulting will contribute to this particular subject, especially the women Members. I urge them to listen so that they can make useful contributions. view
• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: It is a very useful Report. I am sure that it will help them in carrying out some of their work. view
• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Parliamentarians were also expected to discuss the policy and legislative gaps relating to the themes and fast-track identified legislative proposals in these sectors. The Report goes on to give an indication of the country’s position to the CSW. Kenya prepared a country position paper to articulate the country’s position in the priority theme. The position paper was peer reviewed and adopted during a half day national stakeholders’ pre-CSW meeting for the Kenya Government delegation organised by the Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs, held on 6th March 2018 at Hilton Hotel. The ... view
• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: In addition to adopting the position paper, the delegates also agreed on a shared plan of participating in the 62nd Session of the Commission on Status of Women. Delegates were further apprised of the important specific side events which the delegation participated in. There were side events which I will not delve in. Some of the side events themes were reducing the burden of women in agriculture and food processing. This captured the Big Four Agenda. In addition, Members of Parliament of Kenya attended and participated, among other sessions, a full day Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting which was organised for ... view
• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: The IPU further organised two other side events and Members had the opportunity to attend. I want to talk about participation in the CSW62. During the meeting, the Kenyan delegation held daily briefing sessions at the Kenya Mission to the United Nations (UN) offices to share lessons learnt and the plan for the day’s activities and events. The sessions provided an important platform to coordinate and guide the delegation for optimum participation in CSW62. The Kenyan delegates participated actively in the proceedings of the main session priority, reviewed theme sessions and the numerous side events. They contributed both at the ... view
• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the next page lists the outcomes of the CSW62. It also has the list of the Members of Parliament who participated in this CSW62. We had 17 Members. The list is there for the Members to look at. I want to say at this stage that at this particular time, we were privileged because we had Hon. Jeremiah Kioni as one of the participants in the CSW62. He made very useful contributions, among other Members of Parliament. I had also the privilege to attend. Committees can volunteer their Members to attend CSW because it occurs every ... view
• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I want to go to the next issue which is about the establishment of the Commission. The CSW is instrumental. I know Hon. Members, especially the male Members, may not quite understand that CSW is instrumental in promoting women’s rights, documenting the reality of women’s lives throughout the world and shaping global standards on gender equality and empowerment of women. In 1996, UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in Resolution 1996 and No. 6 expanded the Commission’s mandate and decided that it should take a leading role in monitoring and reviewing problems in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and ... view