Directorate of Gender, Mentorship and Disability Mainstreaming

What We Are Committed To

Enhancing the principle of equal opportunities for all persons such that no deserving persons are discriminated against based on gender.

Foster an enabling environment that promotes and facilitates gender equality at all levels. This will ensure that adequate resources including academic programmes and staff training are gender responsive to enhance gender parity.

Creating and promoting a gender sensitive work environment within the University and its various campuses. Towards achieving this goal, the University organizes regular workshops/seminars and exposure to a variety of other inputs. All JKUAT events/programmes, both internal and external, have a gender component addressing gender specific needs of the participants.

Enhance documentation of all the processes related to gender mainstreaming within the University and make it accessible to all. It will also strive to promote and strengthen gender equality within the work spheres through various channels of communication.

Ensuring that intervention strategies encompass all University functions, systems and processes because gender is a cross-cutting issue.

Ensuring that all persons with mental health needs receive the highest attainable standard of care by providing the necessary resources for the provision of mental health care and treatment.

Departmental Objectives

  • To increase awareness of staff on gender mainstreaming by carrying out four (4) sensitization sessions in every financial year
  • To ensure that at least 5% of the new employees, interns, attachees, apprentices at JKUAT are persons with disabilities
  • To Ensure that service points are friendly for and to persons with disabilities by ensuring improvements for ease of access to public offices and to public information
  • To increase awareness of staff and students on the JKUAT Sexual Harassment Policy and Procedures by carrying out four (4) sensitization sessions in every financial year
  • Maintain disaggregated data based on gender, placement and disability for staff and individuals reached by the University

Director, Gender, Mentorship and Disability Mainstreaming (DGMD)

SAA. DGMD

Office Assistant, DGMD