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Media Focus on Africa Launches Ms President Season 2 Leadership Academy
Media Focus on Africa Launches Ms President Season 2 Leadership Academy

Media Focus on Africa Launches Ms President Season 2 Leadership Academy

Simon Gicia May 16, 2022

Media Focus on Africa has launched the Ms President Season 2 Leadership Academy at Desmond Tutu Conference Center in Nairobi.

After successfully conducting auditions across the country, Media Focus on Africa has launched the Ms President Leadership Academy for Season 2, marking the beginning of the second season of Ms President TV show competition. This season’s Ms President Leadership Academy will run from the 16th of May to the 26th of May 30.  52 successful candidates were shortlisted from a pool of 320 who auditioned to join the Academy. In total there were 750 applicants for Ms President Season 2.

The Ms President Leadership Academy’s purpose is to expose the 52 women to knowledge about how the country is run and contribute to the pool of competent and capable women leaders in Kenya. This prepares them for future high level public service roles, whether elective or appointive.

The topics covered in the academy have been chosen to mirror the functions of the Office of President of the Republic of Kenya. In addition to the training at the academy, relevant and value adding field visits are organized for the women. These field visits provide them with the opportunity to internalize the training and lessons in the Academy. High profile networking events are also organized to provide an opportunity to interact with and create networks with high level players in public service and the diplomatic community.

The Academy also prepares the women for the competition where the ultimate winner is crowned Ms President and gets the winner’s prize of 20,000 USD.

Ms President aims at increasing women’s political representation and participation.

Speaking at the launch, the chief guest, CAS Nadia Abdalla said “There is no handbook to being Ms President. Be yourself. Own your journey. I started here and now I am the youngest Chief Administrative Secretary in the current government.”

The Ms President show has been lauded as a platform that has  raised to the national platform a crop of young new leaders with revolutionary ideas to transform Kenya.

 ‘’Why do we invest in Gender Equality? When believe that when you invest in women, you quadruple your investment” added Janine Cocker, the Canadian High Commissioner to Kenya.

The second season of Ms President comes after a successful first season. A number of Season 1 contestants have gone on to take up public service roles. They have also used their Ms President status to rally communities and take on local, national and even international leadership roles. The aim is to provide the same opportunity to another talented and passionate pool of women in an effort to continue to push for more women representation in leadership and governance.

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