Kisumu County strategy to engage the community in GBV amid COVID-19 pandemic

By Matilda Atieno The Kisumu County Gender Sector Working Group (CGSWG), a collaboration with the County Department of Education and Gender sector and the State Department of Gender Affairs with support from partners, kicked off the sensitization and Mobilization forums for the sub-county committees at Victoria Comfort Hotel. The seven days forums sponsored by KMET
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Kisumu’s’ Multi-sectoral Approach to early Teenage Pregnancies

By Matilda Atieno County health and gender officials held a multi-sectoral meeting with state officers from the Ministry of Interior, Education, the state office of gender and non-state actors to explore initiatives in handling early unintended pregnancies among teenagers and the youth across Kisumu. Teenage pregnancies remain a major public health problem with lasting repercussions
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Kisumu County Goes Digital on Bursary and Scholarship

By Matilda Atieno The county government annual scholarship and bursary program has gone digital following the plan to digitalize all county programs and services to improve service delivery. The online bursary system is one of the continuous efforts by the county government to digitize all programs and services to provide user-friendly services to residents and
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Youth Advocacy Workshop on Governance

By Matilda Atieno The county government in partnership with Siasa Place (SP) has organized a youth advocacy workshop under the theme ‘youth advocacy plan for democratic political processes’ at Rockwell hotel in Kisumu. The 2-day workshop centered on raising awareness on the status of governance through increasing youth engagement in political governance processes to strengthen
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County Revolving Fund Steering Committee Assumes Office

By Matilda Atieno, Kisumu County has established the revolving fund steering committee composed of the county committee and the sub-county committee members as stipulated in the public finance management Act, 2012 set to provide grants to the women youth and people living with disabilities to capitalize on a Revolving Fund. The regulation known as “The
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Kisumu County Youth Consultative Meeting

CEC Member for Education ICT and Human resource development Mr. John Awiti giving closing remarks at the end of the two days Kisumu County Youth sector consultative meeting By Matilda Atieno The county directorate of youth affairs this week spearheaded a two days consultative meeting in close collaboration with the state department of youth affairs
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County Government of Kisumu Vocational Training Scholarship

Office of the Governor invite the youths within the wards to take up fully sponsored Vocational training courses at all the VTCs schedule to begin on December 1st. Serious applicants should visit the offices of the Ward admins before 1st of December. This are the courses: 1. Garment Making. 2. Carpentry & Joinery. 3. Mechanical
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Capacity Building of County Officials on Organizational Development and Systems Strengthening

Kisumu county officers from the department of Youth, Gender and PWDs attended a two-day training as from Thursday this week to enhance support on access to decent work and strategies of offering and monitoring youth empowerment services. The workshop organised at the Le savanna Country Hotel in Kisumu courtesy  of  Forum for International Cooperation (FIC) 
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Kisumu Marks the White Cane Awareness Day

Kisumu Deputy Governor, Dr Mathew Owili joined local residents and Persons with Disability in marking the White Cane Awareness Day on Thursday.The ceremony held at the Mama Grace Onyango Social Centre, is celebrated every 15th October to commemorate the achievements of visually impaired persons. However, the celebrations came late this year due to effects of
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