Commitment title:

I SAY NO TO CHILD AND EARLY MARRIAGEs

Commitment description:

I will make sure we get it, and we get it right this time. I believe the comprehensive Sexual Reproductive Health information and services including is critical for all adolescents. Adolescents should be empowered to make an informed decision, know their choices and choose well.
I commit to end SGBV, early child and forced marriages for young women and girls in Kenya. I commit to end the silence around the matter. I commit to engage young people, their parents, their significant others to know the rights the adolescent and women have. I commit mobilize the community to be educated and informed of the rights enshrined in Kenya's Constitution that safeguards all without discrimination.
Yes, I commit to becoming an ambassador of change for young people living in Mau Complex Forest regions who still struggling with expressing their rights and freedoms, who are alienated from services particularly SRHR and GBV because of the confines of culture and traditions.

By working closely with Local Governments to initiate change through structural changes, policy interventions and access to health and information are my commitments to bring ICPD Goals to the hearts of the village.
I commit to transforming our communities, I commit to being the change the commit that we need. I commit to supporting Governments to Co-create, Co-design and Co-implement programs that will see all young girls and women exercising their full range of SRHR services.
I commit to seeing a world where girls have control of their bodies and can freely choose what happens to them without coercion and external force.

I commit to being the change for ICPD 25

I commit to ensuring my partners and stakeholders and program areas implement all the 5 principles.

I commit to being the leader that is needed to drive this change of ensuring gender-based violence and the harmful practices of a child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation IS A THING OF THE PAST.

Mode of engagement:
  • Programmatic action
    I work with County Governments (Nakuru and Baringo) to Zero cases of SGBV which remain high. Nakuru has Underage pregnancy at 20%, while Baringo reports higher. I will increase County led programs that addres SGBV and enhanced policy environment
Commitment to be actioned in: Kenya
Submitted from: Kenya
Submitted by
FHI360
Thematic area
Address gender-based violence and the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation
Commitment category

(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.