Human Rights Impact Assessments – Kenya

CHAPTER THREE: POLICY ACTIONS

3.2. Pillar 2: Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights 

Policy Actions [Page 19]

c) Human rights due diligence: Require businesses to identify their human rights impacts including through conducting comprehensive and credible human rights impact assessments before they commence their operations and continuously review the assessment to ensure that they prevent, address and redress human rights violations. Such impact assessment should involve meaningful consultation with potentially affected groups and other relevant stakeholders and include particular gendered impacts.

 

3.3. Pillar 3: Access to Remedy

B) Non- State-Based Grievance Mechanisms [Page 21]

Policy Actions

The Government will:

3.     Assist community-based organisations working on human rights issues to build their technical capacity to effectively monitor human rights impacts of businesses and advocate for individuals and communities to enforce their right to a remedy for human rights violations.

 

CHAPTER FOUR: IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING

ANNEX 1: SUMMARY OF POLICY ACTIONS

Strategic Objective Policy Actions Key Actors
Strategic objective 2:

Enhance understanding of the obligation of business to respect human rights

Businesses to identify their human rights impacts including through conducting comprehensive and credible human rights impact assessments before they commence their operations. All businesses in Kenya