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CHAPTER TWO: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AND THEMATIC AREAS OF FOCUS 2.6 Labour [Page 12] Article 41 of the Constitution of Kenya guarantees every person the right to fair labour practices, and confers specific rights on workers, employers and trade unions and employers’ organisations. Every worker is entitled to fair remuneration, reasonable working conditions, the right to…

CHAPTER TWO: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AND THEMATIC AREAS OF FOCUS 2.6. Labour [Pages 12-13] […] Other constitutional rights related to labour include Article 30 which prohibits slavery, servitude and forced labour and Article 27 which guarantees equality and freedom from discrimination, specifically including the equal rights of women and men to opportunities in the economic sphere…

The Kenya NAP makes no reference to the Finance and banking sector.

CHAPTER THREE: POLICY ACTIONS [Page 22] 3.2. Pillar 2: Corporate Social Responsibility to Respect Human Rights Policy Actions b) Human Rights Policy commitments ii.    Encourage recruitment agencies to provide any required repatriation, legal and psychological support to migrant workers who have suffered or been subjected to abuse abroad;   CHAPTER FOUR: IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING [Page…

  CHAPTER TWO: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AND THEMATIC AREAS OF FOCUS 2.3 Land and Natural Resources [Pages 7-8] Additionally, Kenya has various laws and policies to ensure that communities hosting extractives projects benefit through revenues, employment of local people and utilisation of local goods and services. The NAP consultations identified the following concerns related to land,…

CHAPTER THREE: POLICY ACTIONS Policy Actions [Page 18-19]  b) Human Rights Policy commitments iii. Enforce compliance with human rights standards by State owned enterprises and other businesses that receive export credit and state support, including by providing access to remedy for human rights violations; […]   CHAPTER FOUR: IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING ANNEX 1: SUMMARY OF…

CHAPTER TWO: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AND THEMATIC AREAS OF FOCUS 2.3. Land and Natural Resources [Page 7] The country has made strides in the legal and policy protection of women’s property rights as relates to ownership, inheritance, management and disposal. The 2009 National Land Policy amongst other provisions cites the need to protect women’s right to…

CHAPTER TWO: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AND THEMATIC AREAS OF FOCUS 2.2 Kenya’s Experience with Business and Human Rights [Pages 5-6] Key business and human rights concerns in Kenya revolve around workplace rights, local communities and business relations, human rights and sustainable land use, human rights and sustainable environment and human rights and small- and medium- sized…

The Kenya NAP makes no reference to Development Finance Institutions.

The Kenya NAP makes no reference to Data Protection & Privacy

CHAPTER TWO: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AND THEMATIC AREAS OF FOCUS 2.4 Revenue Transparency [Page 9-10] Tax justice and the regulation of financial behaviour of companies can no longer be treated in isolation from the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, outlined in the UNGPs and business commitments to support the SDGs. Indeed, the SDGs include specific…

CHAPTER TWO: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AND THEMATIC AREAS OF FOCUS 2.4 Revenue Transparency [page 9] [T]he NAP consultations identified several challenges that affect revenue transparency: Corruption in the process of revenue collection and the management of public revenue. Stakeholders identified corruption in the business licensing process, the process of tax collection and public procurement attributed to…

  The Kenya NAP makes no reference to the Construction sector

I. CONTEXT (…) Strategy “Commitment for the future of Colombia” [“Compromiso por el futuro de Colombia”] Job creation: the government seeks increasing employment through a strategy that combines support to Small and medium enterprises (which generate around 90% of employment in the country), acceleration of infrastructure projects, incentives to orange economy [economía naranja] projects_, development…

`The Colombia NAP does not explicitly address this issue’

I. CONTEXT (…) Strategy “Commitment for the future of Colombia” [“Compromiso por el futuro de Colombia”] Job creation: the government seeks increasing employment through a strategy that combines support to Small and medium enterprises (which generate around 90% of employment in the country), acceleration of infrastructure projects, incentives to orange economy [economía naranja] projects_, development…

VIII. FUNDAMENTAL PILLARS i. Fundamental Pillar 1: The State’s obligation to protect human rights (…) Strand 2 [Eje nº 2]: Encourage the creation of regulations and strategies that promote respect for human rights in the development of business activities. (…) The Ministry of Culture [Mincultura] will promote the protection of human rights in the entrepreneurship…

III. OBJECTIVES … the specific objectives that will develop the general objective mentioned above are the following: (…) Contribute to the fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.   IV. POLICY DEFINITION Through this Plan, the national Government urges all companies, regardless of their size, sector, location, ownership and structure, to comply with the…

VIII. FUNDAMENTAL PILLARS (…) ii. Fundamental Pillar 2: The duty of business to respect human rights Strand 1[Eje nº 1]: Provide companies with the tools to fulfil their responsibility to respect human rights (…) The ICBF [Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar]  will promote plans, programmes, strategies and projects coordinated with the State, to eradicate child…

VIII. FUNDAMENTAL PILLARS i. Fundamental Pillar 1: The State’s obligation to protect human rights (…) Strand 3 [Eje nº 3]: Dissemination of the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights and of instruments and strategies related to the promotion of these rights (…) The Presidential Advisory Office for Competitiveness and Public-Private Management will support…