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Kenya Health Policy 2014-2030
Kenya, Ministry of Health
This document summarises the progress made in Kenya in overall population health status, investment made in health, outcomes from the implementation of interventions under the previous policy period. It also outlines the values and principles which all state organs and officers are expected to employ in the delivery of services.
Kenya • 2014 • Health
Kenya Environmental Sanitation And Hygiene Policy 2016-2030
Kenya, Ministry of Health
This policy emphasizes the systematic collection of data on wastes from all sectors of the economy to support research and development to meet the challenges of managing wastes associated with Kenya’s growing economy, rapid urbanization and rapidly changing lifestyles. The policy supports the building of international, national, county and community partnerships with the private sector and civil society through effective public sector facilitation, coordination and investment.
Kenya • 2016 • Health
Architects and Quantity Surveyors Act
Kenya, Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works
This parliamentary Act provides for the registration of architects and quantity surveyors. It establishes a board of registration of architects and quantity surveyors. It guides the registration and administration of the board.
Kenya • 2011 • Infrastructure and Construction
Building Surveyors Act No. 19 of 2018
Kenya, Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works
This parliamentary Act provides for the registration and licencing of building surveyors, to regulate their practice and for connected purposes. It establishes a board to be known as the building surveyors registration board. Its function will be to promote the practice of building surveying that complies with universally accepted norms and values.
Kenya • 2018 • Infrastructure and Construction
Kenya Veterinary Policy
Kenya, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Irrigation
This policy encourages partnerships between institutions and organizations that impact the animal resource industry. It provides for animal welfare, veterinary public health, animal research programmes, and animal resources. It also provides guidelines to address challenges facing the promotion of animal resource industry as a leading contributor to national growth and development.
Kenya • 2015 • Agriculture and Rural Development
The Special Economic Zones Act, 2015
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the establishment of special economic zones; the promotion and facilitation of global and local investors; the development and management of enabling environment for such investments, and for connected purposes. Part III of this document establishes the special economic zones authority to make recommendations to the cabinet secretary on all aspects of designation, approval, establishment, operation and regulation of special economic zones.
Kenya • 2015 • Trade, Industry and Investment
Partnership Act No. 16 of 2012
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This is a parliamentary Act that provides for partnerships and for connected purposes. It emphasizes that each partner in a partnership shall have responsibility for the business of the partnership.
Kenya • 2012 • Trade, Industry and Investment
Standards Tribunal (Practice and Procedure) Rules, 2012
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
The overriding objective of these rules is to facilitate the just, expeditious, proportionate and affordable resolution of civil disputes governed by the Act.
Kenya • 2012 • Trade, Industry and Investment
Kenya Industry and Entrepreneurship Project Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF)
Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives
This document presents an environmental and social management framework (ESMF) for the Kenya industry and entrepreneurship project (KIEP). The ESMF ensures that the project activities are compliant with the relevant requirements of national policies, regulations and legislations as well as the World Bank safeguards policies and procedures. The objective of this ESMF is to set out the principles, rules, guidelines and procedure to assess the environmental and social impacts and monitoring to ensure that environment and social aspects are duly considered
Kenya • 2018 • Trade, Industry and Investment
Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act Revised Edition 2018 [1991]
Kenya, Miinistry of Public service, Youth and Gender Affairs
This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the control and licensing of betting and gaming premises; for the imposition and recovery of a tax on betting and gaming; for the authorizing of public lotteries; and for connected purposes. It establishes the betting control and licensing board which has the power to issue licences and permits in accordance with this Act.
Kenya • 2018 • Youth and Sports Development
Kenya Society for the Blind Act Revised Edition 2012 [1988]
Kenya, Miinistry of Public service, Youth and Gender Affairs
This is a parliamentary Act that establishes a society to promote the welfare, education, training and employment of the blind and to assist in the prevention and alleviation of blindness; and for other purposes connected. It establishes a corporate body called Kenya society for the blind to promote the welfare, education, training and employment of the blind, to assist the government, societies, any institution, organization or society or any person in all matters relating to the blind and to awaken public interest in the welfare of the blind and in all matters relating to blindness.
Kenya • 2012 • Youth and Sports Development
Births and Deaths Registration Act Revised Edition 2017 [1972]
Department of Justice, Kenya
This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the notification and registration of births and deaths and other matters incidental. It provides for the change of name of child after registration, registration of deaths, issuance burial permit.
Kenya • 2017 • Justice
The National Occupational Safety and Health Policy
Kenya, Ministry of Health
Kenya does not have a national occupational safety and health policy. This has led to uncoordinated implementation of occupational safety and health programmes and duplication of efforts in implementing such programmes. Therefore, this policy was designed with the main objective to establish national occupational safety and health systems and programmes geared towards the improvement of the work environment. The policy seeks to reduce the number of work-related accidents and diseases, and equitably provide compensation and rehabilitation to those injured at work or who contract occupational diseases
Kenya • 2018 • Health
Asian Officers' Family Pensions Act Revised Edition 2012 [1972]
Kenya, Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services
This is a parliamentary Act that makes provisions for granting pensions to widows and children of Asian officers who are appointed to the service of the government on or after the commencement of this Act. It establishes the Asian officers’ family pensions board to make rules regulating its own proceedings; to consider, and advise the president on, all questions arising on the interpretation of this act; to supervise and control all financial transactions; generally to do any other act or perform any other duty reasonably necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of this act.
Kenya • 2012 • Labour
Asian Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Act Revised Edition 2012 [1980]
Kenya, Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services
This is a parliamentary Act that makes provision for granting pensions to widows and children of deceased Asian public officers. It provides for the lapsed pensions, pensions to children, pensions to adopted children, payment of pension in a case of desertion of a child etc.
Kenya • 2012 • Labour
Fisheries Management and Development Act, 2016
Kenya, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Irrigation
This is a parliamentary Act to provide for the conservation, management and development of fisheries and other aquatic resources to enhance the livelihood of communities dependent on fishing and to establish the Kenya fisheries services. The preliminary section of this Act gives the definitions of key aquacultural terms and the other sections provide extensive details on the establishment of the Kenya fisheries council, fisheries development measures, trade and marketing of fish products in Kenya.
Kenya • 2016 • Agriculture and Rural Development
Civil Procedure Act Revised Edition 2019 [1985]
Kenya, Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services
This is a parliamentary Act that makes provision for procedure in civil courts. The overriding objective of this Act and the rules in this document is to facilitate the just, expeditious, proportionate and affordable resolution of the civil disputes governed by the Act.
Kenya • 2019 • Labour
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Act
Kenya, Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services
This is a parliamentary Act that establishes the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation to assume the government functions of producing and broadcasting programmes or parts of programmes by sound or television; to provide for the management, powers, functions and duties of the corporation and for connected purposes
Kenya • 2009 • Labour
Labour Institutions Act Revised Edition 2018 [2007]
Kenya, Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services
This is a parliamentary Act that establishes labour institutions, to provide for their functions, powers and duties and to provide for other matters connected. It establishes the national labour board to advise the minister on all matters concerning employment and labour, and any matter relating to labour relations and trade unionism.
Kenya • 2018 • Labour
Labour Relations Act No. 14 of 2007
Kenya, Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services
This is a parliamentary Act that consolidates the law relating to trade unions and trade disputes, to provide for the registration, regulation, management and democratization of trade unions and employers organizations or federations, to promote sound labour relations through the protection and promotion of freedom of association, the encouragement of effective collective bargaining and promotion of orderly and expeditious dispute settlement, conducive to social justice and economic development and for connected purposes.
Kenya • 2007 • Labour