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THE GENDER FORUM

Reflection, Discussion, Creating Awareness
Monthly debates in Kenya and Ethiopia

The Gender Forum is the Gender programme's flagship in Kenya and Ethiopia with successful monthly public debates on various issues.

The Gender Forum was initiated in Addis Ababa in 1997 and was established within the context of a lack of independent women's organizations in the country. In addition, the limited number of gender experts and professionals in Ethiopia were working as consultants and as gender coordinators in various governmental and non-governmental organizations without a cooperative network. The Gender Forum in Ethiopia has tackled various topics, ranging from violence against women to feminization of poverty.

The idea of a Gender Forum in Kenya was based on the success of the Gender Forum in Ethiopia. The Forum was hailed by the Chairman of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission, Professor Yash Pal Ghai, as a valuable platform for women to air their views on the constitutional review among other issues.

The main objective of the Gender Forum is to create a medium for reflection, discussion and debate on gender and gender related issues, with a view to creating awareness that gender really matters and should be part of strategic decision and policy making issues.

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