<p><strong>Renowned scholar Prof. Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira is the new Chairperson of the Women Enterprise Fund Advisory board.</strong></p>

<p>The Professor of Literature and founder of the University of Nairobi’s African Women’s Studies Centre will head the board for a period of three years.</p>

<p>“IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by paragraph 5 (1) (a) of the Government Financial Management (Women Enterprise Fund) Regulations, 2007, I, Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces, appoint – WANJIKU KABIRA (PROF.) to be the Chairperson of the Women Enterprise Fund Advisory Board, for a period of three (3) years, with effect from the 13th July, 2022. Dated the 13th July, 2022” reads a gazette notice.</p>

<p>Established in August 2007, Women Enterprise Fund is a Semi-Autonomous Government Agency in the Ministry of Public Service, Youth &amp; Gender Affairs.</p>

<p>It provides accessible and affordable credit to support women to start and/or expand businesses for wealth and employment creation.</p>

<p>The Fund in 2011 emerged, winner of the Sustainable Development Goals Award for outstanding achievement in promoting Gender Equality and Women Empowerment.</p>

<p>Prof Kabira has shown distinguished leadership of the Kenyan Women’s movement and has been actively involved in women’s affairs and gender issues for several years.</p>

<p>She was also involved in the review process of the Constitution having served as a vice chair of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission in 2000.</p>

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