Ms. Yegon Elizabeth Jepkemoi
BSc, Agriculture and Home Economics, Egerton University, Kenya
Kenya
2025
Yegon Elizabeth Jepkemoi is the Head of the Gender Unit in the State Department for Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development. She leads gender mainstreaming efforts across policies, programs, and projects, ensuring gender-responsive policy formulation, dissemination, and implementation approaches. She also leads capacity-building interventions for internal and external stakeholders, including county governments, to integrate gender considerations into agricultural programming. In her role as the department’s gender focal person, she manages cross-departmental collaborations through the Technical Linkage Forum. She represents the department in key national forums, including the National Gender Sector Working Group and the Women’s Economic Empowerment Gender Sector Working Group.

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