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Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) The Crops (Horticultural Crops) Regulations
Kenya, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Irrigation
The Regulatory Impact Statement was developed to assess the costs and benefits of any proposed regulation. It covers the required contents of a regulatory impact statement document which must include the effect of the proposed regulations on private sector & public sector, regulatory & non-regulatory options. It also states that a Regulatory Impact Statement should also point out the benefits and reasons other regulatory options are inappropriate.
Kenya • 2019 • Agriculture and Rural Development
National Nutrition Monitoring and evaluation Framework 2013
Kenya, Ministry of Health
The national nutrition action plan 2012-2017 (NNAP) is guided by the food and nutrition security policy (FNSP, 2012) and food and nutrition security strategy (FSNS, draft 2008). Its purpose is to provide a framework for coordinating implementation of nutrition interventions by the government and nutrition stakeholders for maximum impact at all levels. It deals with the challenges facing monitoring and evaluation of nutrition activities in Kenya by providing information and a robust evaluation of programme effects on the population.
Kenya • 2013 • Health
National Policy on Prevention and Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance
Kenya, Ministry of Health
The introductory chapter of this document defines antimicrobial agents as medicines used in humans, animals and plants for both prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance occurs when disease causing microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites are no longer responsive to previously effective antimicrobial agents. This document therefore addresses the background of antimicrobial resistance in Kenya, the situation analysis and proposes interventions.
Kenya • 2017 • Health
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 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
Access to Information Act
Kenya, Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology
This parliamentary Act gives effect to Article 35 of the constitution to confer on the commission on administrative justice the oversight and enforcement functions and powers and for connected purposes. It has an objective to provide a framework for public entities and private bodies to proactively disclose information that they hold and to provide information on request in line with the constitutional principles.
Kenya • 2016 • Information, Communication and Technology
Books and Newspapers Act 1980 (Revised Edition 2009)
Kenya, Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology
This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the registration and deposit of books and newspapers, for the printing of books and newspapers, for the execution of bonds by printers and publishers of newspapers, and for matters connected. It emphasizes that no person shall print any newspaper in Kenya, and no person shall publish any newspaper printed in the colony, unless there is in force, duly executed, registered and delivered by him to the registrar in the manner prescribed in this document.
Kenya • 1980 • Information, Communication and Technology
Commissions of Inquiry Act
Kenya, Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology
This parliamentary Act that provides for the appointment of commissioners to inquire into and report on matters of a public nature referred to them by the president, to prescribe their powers, privileges and duties, and to provide for other matters connected. It defines the duties of the commissioners and power of commissioner to regulate proceedings.
Kenya • 1963 • Information, Communication and Technology