The Kenya Leadership Integrity Forum (KLIF) has launched its strategic plan for 2023 – 2028. Dubbed the Kenya Integrity Plan (KIP) and unveiled yesterday at the Kenya International Conference Centre (KICC), it was initiated in 2023, and despite its late launch, the stakeholders have already been implementing it.
Has The Ten Years Of The 2010 Constitution Improved The Lives Of Persons With Disability?
The former Kenyan constitutional dispensation made no mention of persons with disabilities. The 1963 Constitution outlawed discrimination on various grounds such as race, tribe, colour but omitted discrimination on the basis of disability. This evidences the manner in which the previous legal system overlooked the rights of persons with disabilities. However, other sectors made efforts in championing for these rights. For instance, 1980 was declared by the government as the National Year for People with Disabilities to promote the awareness and sensitization of their rights and needs to the wider society