20 February 2026 — ORPP held discussions with Siasa Place, alongside a delegation from the Alternative Party (Denmark), at the ORPP HQ offices. The deliberations focused on practical ways of strengthening Kenya’s interventions to enhance the participation of Special Interest Groups (SIGs), including youth, women and persons with disabilities, in political processes. During the meeting, […]

19 February 2026 – The Office held a productive engagement with the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) delegation, which was in Kenya for an exchange visit facilitated by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNHRC). During the session, the visiting delegation was taken through a wide range of processes related to the registration, compliance, and

The Office continues to intensify efforts to integrate productivity in its operations as part of institutional improvement initiatives. To support this effort, senior staff participated in a hands-on productivity mainstreaming capacity-building programme that took place from 16th to 20th February 2026. The training was facilitated by the National Productivity and Competitiveness Centre under the Public

By Assistant Registrar, CPA, CS Agatha Wahome Have You Ever Imagined Life Without the Internet? One day, a man from Generation Y (the Millennials) asked me how we survived university life without mobile phones. He simply could not imagine how we interacted, studied, managed our leisure, and how we generally navigated life without the internet.

It was deep engagements with stakeholders, on 29th January 2026, where ORPP convened stakeholders drawn from state and non-state agencies, the clergy, citizens, and the media, joined ORPP in the official launch of the Lower Eastern Regional Office in Machakos. The forum provided an opportunity for ORPP leadership to engage with national and county government

The ORPP apprised the 13th House of its role, current focus areas, including the review of the Political Parties Act (PPA), efforts to support political parties, and a plan of action for the 2027 general election.  The team also briefed on obtaining human capital, financial, and other gaps that hamper ORPP’s full actualisation of its

The Registrar held discussions with the National Cohesion and Integration Commission CEO, Daniel Geti, PhD, to broaden the two institutions’ support and collaboration, with a focus on enhancing institutional capacity and engagement with citizens, on 14th January 2026. The talks of the two Executives and their teams were held at NCIC’s offices at Upper Hill,

The ORPP is duly licensed as data controller and handler by Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. Some of the ORPP institutional measures in place on data protection are: continued consultations/guidance by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, requiring citizens to grant consent before being recruited as political parties members, instituting personal data measures

On December 10th/11th, ORPP continued its efforts to respond to the Youth to the greatest extent possible. To this endeavour, ORPP supported and participated in the Annual Nyeri Youth Summit, held on 10th to 11th December 2025, at Kamukunji Grounds, Nyeri Town. The ORPP participated by exhibiting its services and engaging in panel discussions at

On Monday, 15th December 2025, the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties (ORPP) convened an engaging X Space discussion hosted on @SiasaPlace from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EAT) to interrogate a critical question facing Kenya’s democracy: are political parties affordable for young Kenyans? The forum brought together politically conscious youth and stakeholders to