Semi Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs)
Women Enterprise Fund
The Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) was established under the Legal Notice No.147 of August 2007. The Public Financial Management Act, 2012 establishes the Fund as a National Fund. WEF is established primarily to provide accessible and affordable credit and business support services to women entrepreneurs to start and/or expand business for wealth and employment creation. The mandates of the Fund are; provision of affordable and accessible credit to women for enterprise development, capacity building of women beneficiaries and their institutions, facilitate and support local and international marketing of goods produced by women, promotion of linkages between Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises owned by women with larger enterprises and facilitate and support investments in infrastructure that support women enterprises.
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The National Affirmative Action Fund
The National Government Affirmative Action Development Fund (NGAAF) was enacted through Legal Notice No.24 of the Public Finance Management Act, 2012 and published on 13th February 2015. The Fund is governed by the Public Finance Management Act, 2012 (National Government Affirmative Action Development Fund), Regulations, 2016. The Fund was established with the primary objective of empowering the vulnerable groups namely; the women, youth, Persons with Disabilities, children and the elderly at the county level to achieve socio–economic growth towards realization of Vision 2030
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Anti-Female Genital Mutilation Board
Anti–Female Genital Mutilation Board was established by the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act, 2011. The Board’s mission is to champion social justice, dignity, and the rights of girls and women by coordinating initiatives aimed at eliminating FGM in Kenya. With a mandate encompassing the design, supervision, and coordination of public awareness programs, as well as policy formulation and advising the Government on related matters. Specific functions include: design, supervise and co-ordinate public awareness programmes against the practice of female genital mutilation; Advise the Government on matters relating to female genital mutilation and the implementation of this Act; Design and formulate a policy on the planning, financing and coordinating of all activities relating to female genital mutilation; Provide technical and other support to institutions, agencies and other bodies engaged in the programmes aimed at eradication of female genital mutilation; Design programmes aimed at eradication of female genital mutilation; Facilitate resource mobilization for the programmes and activities aimed at eradicating female genital mutilation; and Perform such other functions as may be assigned by any written law.
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