More women to be nominated for 20 years in new gender top-up plan The proposed addition of 55 legislative seats is estimated to cost Sh3.8 billion annually. Gender Just now

Photo credit: File | Nation Articles 97 and 98 on the membership of the National Assembly and Senate would be amended to introduce special seats, allocated after each General Election to close the gender gap, a model already in use in county assemblies.

If applied today, 53 women would need to be nominated to the National Assembly and two to the Senate.

Resolving the gender impasse, now 16 years after the new Constitution came into force, was a central issue for the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) in 2023.