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2021-03-24
The recently released Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Land Law System of Kenya report has sparked varying reactions from Kenyans of all walks of life. While some complain that the Commission did not complete its task per all its terms of reference, the land gurus are thrilled by the fact that the report makes many far reaching recommendations on the principles of formulating a National Land Policy Framework and the Constitutional Framework for Land Administration and Management.
While reminding everyone of the numerous steps involved in the development of a National Land Policy, Kenya Land Alliance (KLA) notes that the release of the ‘Njonjo Commission’ report marks the crucial second stage of the National Land policy development process which involves debating of the report.
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2021-03-24
It is significant that for the first time land is specifically recognized as a constitutional category in the Draft Constitution Bill. This is important because it gives the issue of land the level of visibility that is always associated with constitutional matters, and unlike other ordinary legislation, a Constitution can only be amended by a special majority. The chapter that deals with land in the Draft Constitution Bill is Chapter Eleven under the title Land and Property.
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2021-03-25
Through this Land Update, KLA appreciates that for the first time in the history of Kenya a comprehensive Draft National Land Policy has been formulated.We therefore urge all Kenyans and the general public to read, debate and contribute to the finalization of the National Land Policy.
The National Land Policy will provide the basis for the review and harmonization of the existing laws and enacting of new ones to facilitate the achievement of the objectives set out in the overall national development policy framework, Kenya Vision 2030.
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2021-03-25
The World Social Forum in Nairobi in January 2007 was a timely New Year rallying event for Kenyans to revisit the fundamental principles for building a democratic and sustainable society as we prepare for December 2007 elections.The current organizing principles of the institutions that govern us in Kenya are narrow and serve a few at the expense of the many millions of Kenyans that live in abject poverty.
Yet, from all corners of the country, it is acknowledged that it is within our collective ability to create a healthy and sustainable society that serves and work for all.
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2021-03-25
The National Land Policy in Kenya:
Critical Public Land Issues and Policy Statements is a guide to steer the debate and eventual formulation of a National Land Policy and legislative framework that will address issues of management and administration of public land in Kenya. The Issues Paper aims to fill-in the gaps in the debate of handling public land management and administration for the good of the present and future generations. It equally provides the general citizenry and specifically stakeholders in the National Land Policy Formulation process with a checklist of areas of concern about public land that need to be addressed
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2021-03-25
The Historical Injustices Issues Paper seeks to present the various historical land claims issues and perspective related to them and consequently proffer policy statements for their redress.
In this Paper, Kenya Land Alliance (KLA) has tried to integrate information, issues and perspectives in relation to what was presented to the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission (CKRC), the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Land Law System of Kenya and at the Civil Society National Conference on Land Reform together with the ongoing debate on historical injustices
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2021-03-25
Institutional framework for land administration and management is a set of services that make the land tenure system within Kenya socially, ecologically and economically relevant and operational.
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2021-03-25
Kenya inherited a highly skewed system of land ownership at independence in 1963. British colonialism in Kenya was not merely administrative. It was accompanied by massive and widespread land alienation for the benefit of settler agriculture. As a result, the best agricultural land-the White Highlands-and the adjacent rangelands were taken from the Africans, without compensation, and parceled out to white settlers. Colonial legislation was enacted to legalize this process. As a result, whole communities lost valuable land that they had occupied over generations.
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2021-03-25
In this pocket size booklet, Land Reform Volume 4, KLA proposes that collectively as a nation, and especially during this time of the constitutional review process; we must provide women a deliberate opportunity to engage in decision-making as regards land-use,management and ownership.
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2021-03-25
Wildlife is one of Kenya’s greatest natural resources and is the foundation upon which nature-based tourism rides. However, it is one resource that is in constant danger of over-exploitation. In the absence of adequate policies to manage consumptive utilization of wildlife, poaching has greatly reduced wildlife populations.
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2021-03-24
The Rural Women’s Land Rights Charter of Kenya is a bold expression of the concerns/ issues and their aspirations of women living in rural areas on land matters. At the core of these aspirations is the realization of secure and protected women’s land rights and security for their land-based livelihoods.
Women from rural areas in 24 counties in Kenya highlighted their issues and expressed the kind of change they would like to see on matters land through the Rural Women’s Land Rights Charter. Rural women in a breakfast launch in Nairobi proclaimed this charter on October 13th 2016. During this launch, the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning and the Chairperson of the National Land Commission committed their institutions to fully implement the demands.
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2021-03-25
In this pocket size booklet, Land Reform Volume 4, KLA proposes that collectively as a nation, and especially during this time of the constitutional review process; we must provide women a deliberate opportunity to engage in decision-making as regards land-use,management and ownership.
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2021-03-25
The purpose of this Issues Paper is to move the debate and stimulate discussion of issues relevant to women’s land rights and social security beyond the unfulfilled demands for gender responsive land policies and land legal framework. It is based on lessons learned from various research findings, Kenya Land Alliance experience and discussions with colleagues with whom we work with in various capacities on land policy and law reforms in Kenya and others parts of Africa.
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2021-03-25
This booklet reveals that women only got 103,043 titles representing 10.3 percent, while men got 865,095 titles representing 86.5 percent of the total. The glaring disparity is made clear when looked at against the actual land sizes and titled for women against men. The data sample shows that out of 10,129,704 hectares of land titled between 2013 and 2017 women got 163,253 hectares representing a paltry 1.62 while men got 9,903,304 hectares representing 97.76 percent.
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2021-03-25
This report, which focuses on Kenya, constitutes one of four country-wide assessments produced under the overall project. It draws on a literature review conducted by the Kenya Land Alliance (KLA) with additional inputs from IIED, as well as on primary field research conducted by KLA in April 2016 (see Section 1.2 for further information about the research methodology). The primary aim of this report is to inform practitioners, policy makers and researchers about key governance issues relevant to the strengthening of women’s empowerment in community land stewardship and accountability in agricultural investments in Kenya.
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2021-03-25
The women Land Rights Project is a project of Kenya Land Alliance that aims at actualisation Women land and property rights, as provided in the Constitution of Kenya, 2013 and as a means towards poverty alleviation. This considering the fact that, in Kenya where the foundation of most communities is Agriculture and livestock production, women contribute up to 80% of workforce yet they only hold 1% of registered land in their names and around 5-6% of registered titles are held in joint names (Kenya Land Alliance, 2013).
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2021-05-17
KLA undertook a study to highlight the impacts and emerging hidden dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic on Women in the artisanal mining sector across the Country. From the in depth analysis, it is evident that the pandemic disproportionately affected at least 28 percent of women who depend on small scale mining for their livelihood. Six Counties were sampled i.e Taita Taveta, Migori, Kilifi, Kakamega, Kitui and Kwale.
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2021-10-22
Kenya Land Alliance in the past few months have reflected on the place of Alternative Justice Systems in advancing women and girl's rights, the policy brief below expounds on the matter,
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2021-10-26
This policy brief is based on a two-day consultative workshop convened by the Kenya Land Alliance (KLA), August 19-20, 2021, at the Boma Inn, Eldoret. It draws its findings and recommendations from the contributions by delegates from Government (National and County), academia, members of the public, civil society organizations (CSOs), and other non-state actors (NSAs). While the forum was by no means exhaustive on the emotive subject of land and elections in Kenya, the delegates present were unanimous that it provided a welcome entry point on starting a public conversation on the touchy topic of land and elections. The recommendations are captured in the last section of the report, which will form the rationale for the organizers to venture into more partnerships by way of funding through proposal writing
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2021-11-11
Kenya is endowed with a variety of minerals that include Gold, Copper, soda ash, fluorspar, titanium, manganese, iron ore, gypsum, diatomite, chromite, limestone, and silica sand among others⁸. There is a fair documentation of Kenya’s commercial mining and mineral processing operations. Mining is the industry and activities connected with getting valuable or useful minerals from the ground⁹. The mining sector in Kenya contributes about 0.4% of the country’s GDP.
Though mining activity has been present in the country for over 50 years, productivity has remained low. The scale of operations has been limited with only two projects - soda ash and mineral sands - comprising a large part of productive output by revenue. Exploration activity has also been limited even though geological surveys demonstrate a sizeable mineral potential¹⁰. For example, three of the four priciest gems in the world have been found in Kenya. This includes emeralds, sapphire, and ruby in Baringo and West Pokot among others¹¹.
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2021-03-25
THEME: “Sustainable infrastructure, services and social protection for gender
equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls”
Time is now to transform rural women’s lives. Rural women make up the majority of Kenya’s agricultural labour force. They ensure food security for their communities and build climate resilience in this time of the challenges of climate change. But their crucial role they play in ensuring the sustainability of rural households and communities, improving rural livelihoods and overall wellbeing, forces us to ask the basic questions flagged by Professor Henry Bernstein in his book on Class Dynamics of Agrarian change, 2010 of: who owns what?, who does what?, who get what?, and what do they do with? As we commemorate 10 years since the first International Day of Rural Women was established on 15th October 2008. We need to ask these right questions in recognition of the substantial proportion of the women’s agricultural labour force, including informal work, and performance of the bulk of unpaid care and domestic work within families and households in rural areas. Women make significant contributions to agricultural production, food security and nutrition, land and natural resource management, yet structural barriers and discriminatory social norms continue to constrain women’s decision-making power and
political participation in rural households and communities. This year marks the second anniversary of the Women to Kilimanjaro Initiative. This initiative culminated in the launch of the Rural Women’s Land Rights charter for Kenya and the Africa wide charter on rural women land rights. It is therefore an appropriate moment to take stock of the progress made so far and what lies ahead.
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2021-03-25
The Land Sector Non State Actors (LSNSA) is a network of civil society organizations working together to promote secure and equitable access to land and natural resource for all through advocacy, dialogue and capacity building. We petition parliament on issues we hold to be of fundamental importance in the context and content of the two bills before the National Assembly.
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2021-03-25
The first set of the land laws were enacted in 2012 in line with the timelines outlined in the Constitution of Kenya 2010. In keeping with the spirit of the constitution, the Land Act, Land Registration Act and the national Land Commission Act respond to the requirements of Articles 60, 61, 62, 67 & 68 of the Constitution.
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