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A two-day meeting of National Political Parties Liaison Committee (PPLC) was held on the 17th and 18th of January 2025, bringing together representatives of political parties, ORPP, and the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). The meeting focused on; Proposed reforms to the Political Parties Act Cap 7D, Establishing a political parties’ ideology framework, Adoption […]

The review of ORPP Performance Management instruments is key to aligning its mandate execution with government priorities and enhancing the delivery of stakeholder needs and expectations. To this course, ORPP Heads of Department and heads of regional offices held a Performance Contracting (PC) sensitization workshop, from 28th January to 1st February 2024.  The sessions aimed

The Registrar of Political Parties, Ann Nderitu, CBS, had a fruitful discussion with the Data Protection Commissioner Immaculate Kassait, MBS during her visit to Office of the Data Protection Commissioner headquarter offices on 30th January, 2025.Deliberations centered on procedures for the ORPP’s impending data audit, planned early this year. The Registrar also met and interacted

The ORPP technical team drawn from various departments held a session to validate user manuals and documentation for the Integrated Political Parties Management System (IPPMS). The documentation produced in print and audio-visual format, seeks to enable and enhance the effective use of ORPP-developed IPPMS by diverse users including the public and persons with special needs.

The ORPP is committed to developing and implementing policies, guidelines, and standardized procedures across its functions. To progress this, the Plenary (comprised of Registrar and Assistant Registrars) held a review retreat from the 3rd to the 6th of February 2025, to consider various departmental policies, guidelines, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Documents tabled by respective

A compliance clinic for all fully registered political parties,5th and 7th February,2025. The meeting targeted Secretaries General of the political parties. In the meeting, the party officials were briefed on status of compliance across 9 compliance parameters. Registrar of Political Parties, Ann Nderitu, CBS commended parties for making efforts to comply with the Act, noting

The Registrar, Ann Nderitu, CBS on 10th February, 2025 issued certificates full registration certificates to two parties- The We Alliance Party(TWAP) and the Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP). The certification is after @ORPPKenya has assessed the parties and found them to have met the conditions for full registration under section 7 of the Political

Political Parties Act, 2011 obliges the Office of Registrar of Political Parties (ORPP) to; “maintain a register of political parties and the symbols of political parties”. In line with this provision, a list of fully registered political parties in Kenya with their corporate particulars is available here.

The ORPP has commenced a 4-batch sensitization of political parties’ Dispute Resolution Committees (IDRCs) in a bid to build their capacity to manage disputes through established Internal Dispute Mechanisms (IDRMs). On the programme’s first batch, ORPP trained representatives of  24 political parties on 11th December 2024 at the Epashikino Resort in Gigil, Nakuru County. The

On 3rd December, 2024, ORPP hosted one of its kind sitting of men in Office of the Registrar of Political Parties (ORPP) to honor and recognize  men fraternity. The meet up was one of the ORPP deliberate efforts to cater for the welfare of its staff “We look forward to a day filled with inspiration