Kenya Implementation

Resolution 1325 (2000) was adopted a year after Kenya’s tenure on the Security Council came to an end. Kenya commends the Security Council for its sustained, committed engagement to the agenda on women and peace and security over the past 16 years. Kenya’s commitment to the full implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), on women and peace and security, is unequivocal. It is further underlined by our full support at the regional level of the African Union Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa. I am pleased to inform the Council that our Government has undertaken a number of far-reaching measures to that end.

In 2016, Kenya launched a national action plan for the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), aptly entitled “Kuhusisha Wanawake ni Kudumisha Amani’ — which in Kiswahili means “To Involve Women is to Sustain Peace” — that encompasses the changing nature of insecurity by incorporating women’s human security.

Secondly, the action plan will continue to mainstream resolutions 1325 (2000) and 1820 (2008) into Kenya’s national development framework. The national plan also takes into account progress made by Kenya in advancing the promotion and protection of women and girls, in accordance with the Kenyan Constitution and intergovernmental and regional policies related to security, peacebuilding and conflict resolution; in improving the quality of women’s participation in their contribution to security at the national level by increasing their numbers through well- targeted recruitment; and in developing programmes at the National Defence College that integrate gender training for troops prior to deployment in peacekeeping operations undertaken in accordance with the relevant Security Council resolutions.