Homa Bay County Sexual and Gender based Violence Policy 2023

Abstract

The Homa Bay County Government has made significant steps in the elimination of Sexual and Gender Based Violence through development of a policy framework that will comprehensively promote, prevent, protect, and co-ordinate the myriad phases of Sexual and Gender Based Violence. The policy addresses issues affecting Gender and Violence with regards to social, political, and economic forms of violence against boys, girls, women and men by ventilating on the mechanisms of addressing them. The policy framework developed is coherent with the International, National legislative policy instruments to which Kenya is a signatory as provided in the Constitution 2010 under Article 2(6). The policy seeks to protect women, men, girls and boys against Sexual and Gender Based Violence.