STRATEGIC AREAS OF COOPERATION BETWEEN NATIONAL AND COUNTY GOVERNMENTS:FOREIGN RELATIONS BY PETER WANYAMA, LEGAL COMPLIANCE SPECIALIST Counties should take a keen interest on Kenya’s foreign policy Under the Constitution of Kenya, foreign policy and foreign relations are all exclusive functions of National Government. Ideally, counties are supposed to keep of these functions; to be left […]
REGULATORY TRENDS IN FOOD SECURITY AND FOOD SAFETY:- EXAMINING POTENTIAL AREAS FOR COUNTY POLICY AND LEGISLATION BY PETER WANYAMA, LEGAL COMPLIANCE SPECIALIST Kenya lost Kshs. 2.1 Billion to maize disease last year “About 26,000 hectares of maize was affected by lethal necrosis disease last year. The Director of Crop Protection at the Ministry of Agriculture […]
IDENTIFYING STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTY LEGISLATION, Example of Agriculture. By Peter Wanyama, Legal Compliance Specialist Contribution of Agriculture to the Economy According to some estimates, the agricultural sector directly accounts for 24% of Kenya’s Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”). It accounts for a further 27% of GDP by way of indirect contribution through linkages with other […]
Africa’s new harvest by Calestous Juma The second edition of The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation has been released. The first edition of the book was published in 2011 as a memorandum for Africa leaders. Its core message was that African could feed itself in a generation. It was as a call to action to achieve […]
The Council of Governors recognises the efforts that were expended in the coming of the Draft Health Bill 2015. However, we note with great concern that the spirit of consultation with the County Governments was not extensively exhausted during the development of the Bill. It is obvious that the Draft Health Bill fails to embrace […]
BY PETER WANYAMA, LEGAL COMPLIANCE SPECIALIST Introduction Smallholder producers who actually form the majority of farmers in Kenya have limited access to own or borrowed capital. Commercial banks regard them as risky borrowers and more often than not tend to shy aware from giving them loans–and to some extent for a good reason, namely; the […]
MANUAL ON DEVOLUTION AND LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOR COUNTIES PURPOSE OF THIS MANUAL The principal objective of this manual
By Peter Wanyama, Legal Compliance Specialist 1.0 INTRODUCTION. Structured Finance transactions, sometimes seen as a system of earnings
By Peter Wanyama, Advocate, February 2007 INTROCUCTION It is a fundamental truism that the existence of a robust, efficient and arguably
Development of legal implementation framework