APRM • SECOND COUNTRY REVIEW REPORT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA 253. There have been important accommodations made for PWDs in the public sector. The Public Service Commission has developed a Code of Practice on Mainstreaming Disability that addresses equal opportunity for recruitment, training, and promotion of PWDs and while the general retirement age is 60, for PWDs the age is 65. This is buttressed by integrating within performance contracts an indicator on disability mainstreaming. However, a public service Review 2014/15 revealed that only 3% (6 out of 243) Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) met the constitutional threshold of 5% PWDs in the labour force and 13% i.e. 74 MDAs had no PWDs in their workforce.28 Within these figures, disabled female workers were fewer by far than the disabled male workers. 254. The UN has commended Government’s affirmative action measures in employment of PWDs and cash transfers for those with severe disabilities.29 Government disbursed to the cash transfer programme KShs 385 million in 2012/2013, KShs 770 Million in 2013/2014 and KShs 1.5 billion in 2016/17. Although the cash transfer programme for PWDs is opportune, the coverage of 94 persons with severe disabilities per constituency and monthly sums of KShs 2000 per month is inadequate to meet the needs of the severely disabled.30 255. Multiple Vulnerability: Women and children with disabilities continue to suffer from multiple forms of vulnerability. Families of children with disabilities continue to hide them from the public, thus making it hard for designed interventions and programmes to reach them. Women and girls with disabilities are at a high risk of sexual violence and victims of sexual violence do not report these crimes. This makes it hard for them to access services for justice, health care and support services. 3.10.2.3 Older persons 256. Article 57 of the Constitution touches on the rights of older members of society, requiring the state to undertake measures to ensure protection of the rights of older persons in various ways. These include full participation in the affairs of society; the pursuit of personal development; the right to live in dignity and respect and be free from abuse; and to receive reasonable care and assistance from their family and the State. Older persons are persons aged sixty years and above and are estimated to be 1.9 million in 2009. Kenya Public Service Commission ‘Evaluation Report on Public Service Compliance with the Values and Principles in Articles 10 & 232 of the Constitution for the Year 2014/2015’ 29 UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Concluding observations on the initial report of Kenya*CPRD /C/KEN/CO/1 30 Kenya National Commission on Human Rights ‘ From Norm to Practice: A status report on implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ 2014 28 | 125 |