| Affiliation with other organizations: |
KELIN sits in the technical working group of the National Gender and Equality Commission. The National Gender Equality Commission is a constitutional Commission established by an Act of Parliament whose main work objectives of promoting gender equality and freedom from discrimination. The technical group meets once a month and discusses issues concerning gender and equality. KELIN also sits at the technical working group of Federation of women lawyers in Kenya (FIDA) which is the premier women’s rights organization in Kenya and has in 30 years offered direct legal aid services to over 300,000 women and positively impacted in structural, institutional, and legal reforms within Kenya to ensure gender sensitivity and responsiveness. KELIN provides litigation support to this organisation. KELIN also sits at the African Commission on Human Rights committee on the protection of rights of people living with HIV and those at risk, vulnerable to and affected by HIV. KELIN is also doing a joint research with Kenya National Human Rights Commission which is an independent National Human Rights Institution. The research were are conducting in conjunction with them is about maternal mortality and an audit of the beyond zero campaign which is a project initiated by the first lady Mrs. Margret Kenyatta and whose objective is maternal and child health outcomes in the country. |
| Publications: |
KELIN has published a manual on women land and property rights in 2015. Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN) mission is to promote and protect HIV related rights. In the Women’s Property Rights Programme, KELIN works to address the needs of widows and their children who have been disinherited and left homeless due to the denial of their lawful rights to inherit, access and own property. The programme works with community-based cultural structures as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism (ADRM) to facilitate access to justice for the affected widows and orphans. The development of a training curriculum on women’s property rights and on alternative dispute resolution seeks to contribute to the institutionalization of the practice of using traditional justice systems to facilitate replication of the practice in other counties and to expedite its recognition by the formal justice system as the judiciary works towards actualization of the Constitution of Kenya. With the dissemination of training curriculum for use by other partners, more elders and widows will be reached in different parts of the country. KELIN has also written a report on the commentary of trends, actors and initiatives that impact the women’s inheritance rights in the former Eastern, Nyanza and Coast provinces in Kenya. This report contains a commentary and analysis from the desk review of reports and documents on trends, actors and initiatives that impact women’s inheritance rights in the former Nyanza and Coast provinces. It also contains the analysis of the actors, structure, substance and process of the traditional justice systems, and the factors affecting the effectiveness of these structures as gauged against the interaction of these systems with the formal justice system. This analysis is based on the findings of a social inquiry undertaken in July 2013, of these traditional justice systems. The respondents were elders, chiefs and community members from Kwale, Kilifi and Malindi at the Coast, Kuria, Nyando, Kisumu, Nyakach, Rachuonyo and Seme in the former Nyanza province. It draws conclusions on the positive aspects of the traditional justice systems as currently formulated and makes recommendations for the strengthening of these systems in line with Article 159(2) (c) of the Constitution of Kenya 2010. |
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