Trade

By Daniel Morris | 29. April 2021
CHAPTER THREE: POLICY ACTIONS

3.1. Pillar 1: The State Duty to Protect [Page 18]

Policy Actions

The Government will:

xii.    Review current trade and investment promotion agreements and bring them into compliance with the Constitution and international human rights standards to ensure that they are not used to facilitate illicit financial flows and tax evasion by businesses.

 

CHAPTER FOUR: IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING [Page 22]

To ensure that the measures proposed in this NAP are implemented, there shall be a NAP Steering Committee overseen by the Department of Justice and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. The Implementing Committee will consist of representatives from the following institutions:

5.    Ministry of Trade and Industrialisation

 

ANNEX 1: SUMMARY OF POLICY ACTIONS

Strategic Objective Policy Actions Key Actors
Strategic Objective 1:

Enhance existing policy, legal, regulatory and administrative framework for ensuring respect of human rights by business through legal review and development of specific guidance for business

 

 Introduce a requirement for conducting Human Rights due diligence including the particular impacts on gender before approval of licences/permits to businesses. OAG&DOJ; State Department of Gender; Ministry of Trade and Industrialization, Ministry of Mining

 

 

 
Review current trade and investment promotion agreements and bring them into compliance with the Constitution and international human rights standards and to also ensure that they are not used to facilitate illicit financial flows and tax evasion by businesses. Ministry of Trade and Industry, KRA, Financial Reporting Centre (FRC)