Labour Secretary Kazungu Kambi said the government has laid down “elaborate social protection policies and cash transfer programmes”, aimed at improving the lives of vulnerable groups.
Addressing a special focus session on African children at the 2014 annual session of the UNICEF Executive Board meeting in New York, yesterday, Kambi said this year, orphans and vulnerable children, persons with disabilities and the elderly will receive Sh12 billion in cash transfers.
He said conflicts and strife disrupt schooling and access to other basic services and are major impediments to the realisation of children’s rights.
Kambi said evaluation carried out on the cash transfer programmes found they helped to reduce poverty, improve diets and increase school enrolment.
He said Kenya has made deliberate interventions to reduce child mortality through enhanced immunisation coverage, provision of insecticide-treated mosquito nets, free maternity care and free treatment of children under five years in government hospitals.
Kambi said the introduction of free primary education in 2003 increased the enrolment of children in schools.
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