Local Government COE

The Ministry engages in a number of concerted efforts with the aim of advocating, attaining and safe guarding womenâ € ™s rights. Amongst others the Ministry has initiated the enactment of land mark legislation (Legal Capacity of Married Persons Act 2006) that affords women a broad spectrum of rights with regards to marriage and family rights, elimination of the minority status in marriage union and elimination of marital power mainly vested in men. This has guaranteed equal legal status and capacity in the civil and customary union, entailing full contractual rights, the right to acquire and hold rights in property and the right to secure credit. The Act has given rise to the amendment of The Deeds registry Act 1967 and the companies Act 1967 that respectively restricted women from registering immovable property and from becoming directors. Also in effort to advocating and safe guarding womenâ € ™s rights the ministry has taken the initiative of disseminating CEDAW together with the CEDAW concluding remarks especially with regards to equal rights to inheritance, chieftainship and abolishment of polygamy as a harmful practice to women. The ministry also engages in the commemoration of gender calendar dates e.g. Commemoration of African and Womenâ € ™s month and day, 16 days of Activism against GBV, the ministry has also from 2012 taken the initiative of celebrating Girl childâ € ™s Day in an effort to high light the importance of a girl child, protection and development of such

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