PUBLIC EDUCATION AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
The PEI Department’s purpose is to ensure that the Commission for Gender Equality achieves one of its four strategic objectives, which reads: “Gender equality promoted through information and education to foster public understanding”. The department is led by the HOD, who is supported by a deputy and a team of education officers. As part of its work, the department conducts outreach and education initiatives in communities. The PEI Department has been set up to do the following:
The Public Education and Information Department had been set up to do the following:
In order to achieve its object referred to in section 119 (3) of the Constitution, the Commission shall:
- Develop, conduct or manage: information programmes and education programmes to foster public understanding of matters pertaining to the promotion of gender equality and the role and activities of the Commission.
- Liaise and interact with any organisation which actively promotes gender equality and other sectors of civil society to further the object of the Commission.