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Members’ education day for IEBC Pension Scheme members, which has a membership of both ORPP and Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) staff were sensitized on varied topics in a series of forums across the cunty. On 21st to 23rd February 2024 in Kakamega Golf Hotel, members in Kakamega, Vihiga, Bungoma, and Busia counties convened […]

The Registrar, Ann Nderitu, CBS, Dr (h.c), joined other members of the Multi-Sectoral Working Group towards realisation of 2/3 gender principle on 23rd February 2024 in its presentation of Task Force report to the Cabinet Secretary, State Department of Gender, Hon. Aisha Jumwa Katana and the ministry team. The report included legislative proposals to realize

On the evening of March 4th, 2024, the Office Registrar of Political Parties was part of the stakeholders and partners that witnessed the Centre Multiparty Democracy (CMD) 20th anniversary celebrations in Serena Hotel, Nairobi. The CMD was commemorating its milestones in advocacy for political pluralism, civic engagement, and democratic governance. “I am honored to be

Prior to the launch of ORPP’s new offices,  the apex leadership visited various county officials to discuss areas of collaboration and support. In the meeting, the county officials assured their support to ORPP grassroot engagements in liaison with the respective Office Coordinators. “We are delighted as our discussion has unlocked bothering matter of coalitions in

The Office of the Registrar of Political Parties held seven compliance clinics of political parties on matters compliance at ORPP headquarters on 22nd and 23rd January, 2024. The parties found to have outstanding compliance issues were informed of their party status and guided on remedial measures per the Political Parties Act, 2011.

The discussion revolved around the mandate of ORPP, political parties’ finances and possibly foreign financing, the PPF annual allocation, distribution criteria, and why some parties have recently complained of reduced amounts from the original allocation for 2023/24. Other areas discussed were fraudulent membership registration and whether there are still briefcase parties in Kenya as well

The Resource Centre has in stock a wide range of information resources in varied formats. Besides the physical resource collection, the ORPP Resource Centre (RC) has acquired Kindle books from Amazon. These are available via Internet or may be read on any reader. The RC currently has two readers that are borrowable for two weeks,

A review meeting of ORPP to review and validate the existing Career Guideline took place from 28th January to 2nd February 2024. “The Career Guidelines guides career path, aligning ORPP’s goals with those of staff members. The Guideline should also provide a performance management framework in line with ORPP career Plan”, noted Ali Abdullahi, Assistant

The discussion revolved around the mandate of ORPP, political parties finances and possibly foreign financing, the PPF annual allocation, distribution criteria and why some parties have recently complained of reduced amount from the original allocation for 2023/24. Other areas discussed were fraudulent membership registration and if there are still brief case parties in Kenya as

“We truly appreciate ORPP for such engagements and for always holding and guiding the grassroots party on important happens and emerging issues surrounding political party registration, regulation, and funding. Our call to ORPP is to advocate seriously on the need to better funding of political parties and ensure funding percolates to the grassroots to roll