New measures to ensure governance of economic empowerment programmes (Minister of Family)
Minister of the Family, Women, Children and the Elderly, Amel Belhaj Moussa, has decided to set up a committee to manage economic empowerment programmes and monitor projects financed by the ministry, following a meeting held on Monday. According to a press release issued by the ministry, the committee will be responsible for promoting the management mechanisms of economic empowerment programmes, monitoring the progress of these projects and correcting any shortcomings, proposing solutions and providing support to administrations and managers. In this context, the Minister for the Family has instructed Director General of the Central Governance Unit, Mohamed Kedidi, and Director General of the Management Unit, Yosra Abassi, to monitor governance in the implementation of all programmes receiving public funds from the Ministry and to carry out field visits to regional offices. Starting next year, the Ministry of Family Affairs will produce an annual report on governance in the management of the ministry’s pr
ogrammes for the economic and social empowerment of the family, women, children and the elderly, the results of which will be published at the end of June each year. Belhaj Moussa stressed the need to ensure sound management of public finances in order to increase the number of beneficiaries and preserve sources of income. The meeting provided an opportunity to review the indicators relating to the number of beneficiaries and pending applications for the economic empowerment programmes. The latter target families living in special situations, mothers of pupils at risk of dropping out of school, women and girls who are victims of violence “Samida’ and women workers in the agricultural sector, among others.
Source: EN – Agence Tunis Afrique Presse
Kiambu County has managed to plant at least seven million trees since President Dr. William Ruto last December commissioned the Programme dubbed ‘jaza miti,’ to increase the country’s forest cover in the country by another 15 billion trees by 2032. The initiative which seeks to combat the devastating effects of climate change and the looming biodiversity crisis was part of the government’s agenda to mitigate against challenges of the wider global warming attributed to adverse weather patterns experienced in recent times. Water, Sanitation and Irrigation Cabinet Secretary (CS) Zachariah Njeru who led the County in a tree planting drive at Nyamweru forest in Lari, Limuru said it was critical that all Kenyans collectively engaged in the initiative for posterity. He emphasized on the need to nurture the trees to grow to their maturity adding that it would an effort in futility if the seedlings were abandoned without the care required to see them through all seasons to ensure that their impact on the ecosystem
were felt.
Source: Kenya News Agency