This is the time of year when newspaper are full of (usually rather tedious) articles about New Year Resolutions. But how about some constitutional new year resolutions – for Kenya’s […]

Katiba Institute has published a book on participation of ethnic minorities and marginalised communities in political and other governance processes under the Constitution of Kenya 2010. The book was officially […]

Let’s raise our sights from what Kiraitu Murungi called the “mud of politics” to what the Constitution is really about. Not comfortable lives and illusions of power for politicians, but […]

Katiba Institute seeks the services of a Litigation Manager and Programme Officer. Litigation Manager -POSITION FILLED The Litigation Manager will be one of Katiba Institute’s team of litigators, with the […]

On 26th June 2019, the National Environment Tribunal allowed  Save Lamu’s appeal against NEMA’s approval of the proposed 1050MW Lamu Coal fired power plant.  Save Lamu, represented by Katiba Institute, […]

Katiba Institute (KI) was established in 2011 with the mission of supporting the implementation of Kenya’s 2010 Constitution, helping to resist effort to undermine that Constitution, and generally to assist […]

A major problem is that even if a group wins, it is not easy to get our government (and not only ours) to respect the ruling, though it good to see that the government has set up a task force to implement the African Court decision on the Ogiek. But all too often task forces are ways of not doing anything.

It is hard to escape a feeling that, almost more than anything else, the results reveal how the education system is failing young Kenyans.