The Mountain Journal
Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has been
nominated among the top 100 most influential women in Africa.
The ranking was done by Avance Media, a PR
and Rating firm that has been engaged in changing the narrative about Africans
through rating and ranking publications. The nomination highlights and
celebrates the astounding accomplishments of top 100 women from Africa.
Waiguru was nominated along other
accomplished African leaders including H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf- Former
President of Liberia, H.E. Sahle-Work Zedwe- Ethiopian President, H.E. Samia
Suluhu Hassan- President Republic of Tanzania, Angele Makombo- President,
League of Congolese Democrats, Aja Fatouma Tambjang, Former Vice President of
Gambia, Amina J Mohamed- United Nations Deputy Secretary General, Lady Justice
Matha Koome, Chief Justice of Kenya and H.E. Charity Ngilu, Governor of Kitui
County-Kenya.
in leadership and performance, personal accomplishments, commitment to sharing
knowledge, breaking the status quo and bring an accomplished African Woman.
nominees will be expected to offer mentorship to selected young women leaders
through the firm’s ‘Be A Girl’ mentorship program. The publication also presents
a key opportunity for the nominees to be inspired and also continue in their
strides of setting global standards and records.
becoming one of the only three women to have ever been elected as governors in
Kenya. Later in the same year she was elected as the Vice Chair of Council of
Governors also becoming the first woman to ever hold such a position.
government as the Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and Planning during which
time she transformed public service delivery through her award winning concept
of ‘Huduma Centre’; a one-stop shop for government services which has to date
been hailed as one of the best concepts in service delivery as it makes for
faster access to government services.
most transformative youth empowerment program in Kibera Slum, the biggest
informal settlement in Kenya. The ambitious program involved massive, dynamic
and unprecedented multilevel program that changed the face of the settlement
and brought dignity to the lives of its residents.
construction exercise in the slum which included; building roads and pavements,
construction of community ablution blocks, affordable housing units and clinics
as well as installation of street lighting system resulting in enhanced
security and significant reduction of crime in the area. This project which is
a first of its kind in magnitude in a Kenyan slum, continues to be referenced
especially due to the resultant contribution to youth and women employment in
the country.
skills are felt through the transformative economic empowerment projects she is
currently implementing in Kirinyaga County.
Kirinyaga”, the governor is supporting poor and vulnerable groups to undertake
income generating activities in agricultural value chains such as poultry
keeping, tomato, avocado, daily and fish farming, pig rearing and bee keeping
among others. The program which incorporates over 9,000 households is aimed at
generating an extra income of at least Sh. 1,000 daily for each of the
households involved.
of the county’s towns through various infrastructural development projects, the
largest of them being the construction of a modern hospital complex that will
make Kerugoya Hospital one of the biggest referral hospitals in the region and
improve healthcare services in the county.
lobbying for gender equality in the country especially at the highest levels of
the country’s leadership and has been in the forefront in lobbying for
constitutional changes that will enable the legislation of women inclusion in
various leadership positions.
the prestigious Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women in
Leadership (EJS Center) as an Amujae Leader 2021 Cohort. The program is aimed
at equipping women with tools and confidence required to seek the highest
positions of public leadership.
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