Consultative nature in development of key legislations
CIC has ensured public participation through the launch of an interactive website
where citizens can access bills. CIC further enhanced effective stakeholder
participation in the implementation process by ensuring that each of the bills
under consideration was subjected to a review by stakeholders from Nairobi
and counties across the country.
Other successes have been the consultative nature in the development of key
legislation for example the Public Finance Management law. On June 17, 2011,
CIC held a technical workshop on key issues arising from the draft Public Finance
Management Bill. The resolutions of that meeting fed into the CSO Consultative
Forum on the Public Finance Management Bill stakeholder forum held on June
27, 2011.
Stakeholder meetings by CIC and TFDG
CIC and the TFDG have convened several workshops and consultative meetings/
fora with key stakeholders to gather views and comments from various
stakeholders for purposes of enriching the TFDG report and legislations.
A meeting convened by the Institute for Social Accountability (TISA) and CIC on
May 25, 2011 brought together non-state actors. The meeting determined the
need for increased collaboration between CIC and civil societies.
The Task Force visited all the counties to gather views that were incorporated in
the interim report. The TFDG followed up with report validation meetings in all
counties. All Kenyans were also invited to submit memoranda and written views
to the Task Force.
CIC also organised a consultative forum for Non-State Actors on June 7, 2011. The
overall objective of the stakeholder participation was to: share CIC’s mandate
and strategy and discuss how best to work with NSAs to achieve this mandate,
discuss current implementation strategies among NSAs, discuss ways of
enhancing stakeholder and public involvement in the implementation process.
Some of the key outcomes of the meeting include mapping of non-state actors’
involvement in constitutional implementation at national and county level and
a draft strategy for CIC’s engagement with Non-State Actors.
