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| AFRICAN WOMEN STUDIES CENTRE PHD IN AFRICAN WOMEN STUDIES EXAMINATION TIMETABLE: JANUARY 2021 |
Examination dates: Start January 11th, 2021 End January 22nd, 2021 Approved by: Prof. Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira Signature: Director, African Women Studies Centre |
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| DIPLOMA IN WOMEN, LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA EXAMINATION TIMETABLE: JANUARY 2021 |
Examination dates: Start January 11th, 2021 End January 22nd, 2021 Approved by: Prof. Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira Signature: Director, African Women Studies Centre |
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| AFRICAN WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP (AWE) EXAMINATION TIMETABLE: JANUARY 2021 |
Examination dates: Start January 11th, 2021 End January 22nd, 2021
Approved by: Prof. Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira Signature: Director, African Women Studies Centre |
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| AFRICAN WOMEN STUDIES CENTRE MASTER OF ARTS IN WOMEN, LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA |
Examination dates: Start January 11th, 2021 End January 22nd, 2021 |
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OPEN DAY | The open day will comprise of the following activities:
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WEE HUB LAUNCHED ON 16TH DECEMBER 2020 | Strengthening the economic empowerment of women The University of Nairobi and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have launched the Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub. Dubbed the WEE Hub, the project will be a thought leader in producing cutting edge, innovative, rigorous, and accessible research which will contribute to the full realization of women’s economic empowerment in Kenya. This cutting-edge research is expected to impact policy formulation, implementation, and up scaling of what works for women in economic empowerment into full scale programs. Presiding over the launch on December 16, 2020, the Cabinet Secretary Ministry for Public Service and Gender Affairs, Prof. Margaret Kobia, noted that the Hub will be a critical institution in strengthening the economic empowerment of women of Kenya. “As a Ministry in charge of gender affairs, we strive to empower women and promote gender equity and equality with the aim of improving the lives of Kenyans,” said Prof. Kobia. “I am pleased to see a Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub that will provide evidence on what works for women in economic empowerment as this will be very useful for us in the Ministry as we seek to fulfill our mandate. The Government of Kenya acknowledges that empowering women economically is a key component of sustainable development. This is guided by the National Policy on Gender and Development (2019) whose overarching objective is to provide guidance and facilitate the implementation of gender equality provisions in the Constitution and other instruments through legislative, administrative, policy measures and programs required to address the gender inequalities and existing gaps by both levels of Government and non-state actors, including the private sector. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Stephen Kiama, said that the WEE Hub points the direction that the University should focus on in the next 50 years to continue leading as a centre of excellence and a thought leader in Kenya, in the African region and globally. “We shall therefore strengthen research on women’s empowerment with the aim of promoting gender equality and sustainable development in Kenya and globally,” said Prof. Kiama. “Drawing from a multi-disciplinary team of scholars in economics, women’s studies, law, business studies and development studies, the Hub will produce foundation research to understand what matters for women’s economic empowerment and understand pathways that enable women’s work. I am confident that given the able and experienced leadership, the Hub will generate cutting edge data to strengthen generation and use of evidence based data to influence policy development and implementation in an effort to advance WEE and gender equality in Kenya.” The WEE Hub will focus on four broad research areas, which are Affirmative Action Funds and entrepreneurship; Women in formal and informal employment; Child care and women’s work; and Women’s movement and policy advocacy for women’s economic empowerment. “As UoN, we focus on what the research can do for the common mwanachi. We want research that improves people’s lives and WEE Hub will do just that. We underscore the role of research in empowering women. Women are key players in our society,” noted Prof. Horace Ochanda, Deputy Vice-chancellor, Research, Innovation and Enterprise. The Principal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. Mohamud Jama said that the WEE Hub is the newest research project in UoN. He committed as a College to play its role in ensuring the successful implementation of the research programme. Prof. Wanjiku Kabira, the Director, African Women Studies Centre (AWSC), where the WEE Hub will be housed, revealed that the vision of the WEE Hub is the full realization of Women’s Economic Empowerment while its mission is to be a thought- leader in producing cutting-edge, innovative, rigorous, and accessible evidence through research for impacting policy formulation, implementation and up-scaling for full realization of women’s empowerment.
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DIPLOMA IN WOMEN, LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA | The program objectives are to: i. Explain the different needs of diverse members of society. ii. Discuss concepts and skills for effective participation in leadership and governance. iii. Develop awareness on the importance of women’s participation in leadership and governance. iv. Develop advocacy skills and competencies for promotion of women’s participation in leadership and governance in Africa. |
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FEMINISM AND FEMINIST RESEARCH Making Research Work for African Women | This book sheds light on African Feminism Theory and Methods from an African perspective. African women centred research it is hereby argued must look at African women in their own context, address their own experiences within their different communities and within the large regional contexts. This is an important approach because the more we argue that women are conditioned by the society, the more we shall appreciate that the emancipation of women would transform our societies. This is because some of the major gender and social cultural problems women face in the African context result from misunderstanding and hence misrepresentation of women. This by extension affects women and the society at large. Theories and research methods reflect our values and assumptions. This involves the way we analyse the data and even verify the results. Western scholars have failed to properly interpret African women’s realities and we should not expect them to be able to do so. Their realities are different from African women’s realities as evidenced by the existing cultural differences. In the late 1960‟s and the 1970‟s The University of Nairobi came up with approaches that put studies in African Literature, Religious Studies, African Philosophy and African Studies at the centre of scholarship. This opened up a whole new world of study. New knowledge was generated where it had previously been thought it did not exist. Ngugi wa Thiong‟o, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Okot P‟ Bitek, John Ruganda, Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong‟, Micere Githae Mugo, among many others became important writers worldwide.The African Women’s Studies Centre works on African women centred research, which will promote production of knowledge based on African women’s voices and experiences. There is also need to formulate African women’s research models that will be appropriate in generating knowledge based on African women’s experiences and their realities. Buy the book from amazon using the link below https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08F6TF575?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860#reader_B08F6TF575 |
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AWSC WEBINAR SERIES | You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
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