Increase personnel at gender desks in police stations

The Kenya Kwanza administration committed to increasing the number of and personnel at gender desks at Police Stations.

• The National Police Service (NPS) has established dedicated gender desks in select police stations across the country to facilitate the reporting and documentation of gender-based violence (GBV) in a more survivor-friendly manner.
• On September 2025, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen announced that all new police stations should be designed to include gender desks, child protection units, etc. as part of the station blueprint.
• Initiatives such as the newly established gender desk in Mathare and NGOs and programmes such as the REINVENT programme (with external donor support) have helped strengthen about 60 gender desks across various counties, particularly in coastal, western, upper eastern, and north-eastern regions.
• Despite these efforts, many gender desks remain either non‐functional or only partially functional. Some do not have trained personnel, privacy, equipment, or a full schedule for handling GBV cases.