State of Disabled People's Rights in Kenya, 2007

A training seminar for monitors was held in Nairobi, in February, 2006. During April and May, 2006, monitors with disabilities worked in pairs to conduct over 100 interviews in three regions of the country: Nairobi (urban), Rift Valley (urban / rural) and Nyanza (urban / rural) through which they gathering information about the human rights situation of people with disabilities. The coding and analysis of the monitoring data was led by a professor from the Faculty of Law at the University of Nairobi.

You can download the D.R.P.I. Kenya final report as a PDF or view it online in HTML format.

PDF Documents

• Full Report (PDF Version) - 1200 KB

Table of Contents

• Preface, Acknowledgements and Executive Summary
• Section 1: Introduction
• Section 2: Systemic Provisions to Protect, Promote and Fulfill the Human Rights of People with Disabilities in Kenya
• Section 3: Overview of the Disability Rights Movement in Kenya
• Section 4: Findings of the Field Study
• Section 5: Recommendations for Programme Action
• Appendix A - Methodology
• Appendix B: Interview Questionnaire for the Study Called Monitoring the Human Rights of People with Disabilities
• Appendix C: Information Sheet and Free and Informed Consent Form for the Study Called 'The International Disability Rights Monitoring Project in Kenya'
• Appendix D: Coding Scheme
• Appendix E: D.R.P.I. Kenya Project Personnel
• Appendix F: Memos of Understanding with Field Personnel
• Appendix G: D.R.P.I. Kenya Organizational Partners

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