Outcome RD_O_2

Enhanced effective communication and visibility of UN Women’s GEWE results through effective partnerships

KCO Communications continued to provide extensive support to amplify UN Women's results and promote issues of gender in national and local media outlets. Highlights from the year included for example publication of ten editorial articles on the UN Women HQ and ESARO websites. In addition to editorial content, KCO continued to publish content on its Tiwtter platform. The Twitter account audience continues to grow, now reaching 5731 followers - an 8% increase. In addition , digital content on UN Women platforms, the unit successfully coordinated a media visit to KCO's Climate Smart Agriculture project. Standard Media produced 7 digital products (news segments, editorial). YouTube views of videos is above 11,000. https://youtu.be/BSncD5SGlbY https://youtu.be/GmdBJXhVkho https://youtu.be/Ce2OwzAJ6p0 https://youtu.be/HAHcxMQWaNk https://youtu.be/Ky70Sjx6p98 https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/africa/article/2001459975/more-families-now-open-to-the-fight-against-fgm-and-early-marriages https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/crop/article/2001458707/i-profit-more-farming-geranium-than-i-did-employed-in-lebanon?fbclid=IwAR3m0D1BRlzuJHuByqJa2Ak43nG68wlODXwkImzAD4rxtbJEbyhPiRCaNLQ

Enhanced effective communication and visibility of UN Women’s GEWE results through effective partnerships

There is the sustained engagement of partners to advance GEWE through the provision of strategic advisory and leadership leading to the advancement of GEWE issues. This has been achieved by the Country office co-leadership in the development of Kenya’s Commitment framework under Generation Equality. The framework provides a blueprint to guide the country’s efforts toward concrete actions towards the prevention and response of GBV. In addition, the Country Office supported the State Department for Gender in the elaboration concept note that on regional and county-based activation of Kenya’s generation equality commitments with the aims of localizing and rolling out the commitments at the county level and mobilizing for resource allocation at the county level. The Country Office has also strengthened strategic partnerships with existing stakeholders as well as established new ones including with CSOs and embassies of France and Mexico in the inter-generational dialogue that reached 500 young people who domesticated the 12 commitments and made their declarations and commitments on ending violence against women and girls, and private sector - HP.