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policies changed
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people with secure tenure
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Women in steering committee
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youth in steering committee
Land rights in Kenya
Land governance in Kenya is characterized by an unequal distribution of land, corruption and a complicated administrative system, which create widespread land tenure insecurity and generate continuous conflicts.
The government has undertaken institutional and legal reforms on land governance to address these problems, building on the progressive principles of the 2010 Constitution, which seeks to devolve the control over land to its users. Unfortunately, while the development and approval of Land Laws in 2012 and 2016 were meant to govern the reforms, they have thus far failed. Their implementation has proved weak, contentious, and problem-ridden. Land has yet to be redistributed extensively, and women are often excluded by the ongoing regularisation. At the same time, the individual private titling system does not address communal land use needs, preventing communities from enjoying collective land rights. Moreover, institutional rivalries and duplications of mandates aggravate existing and land-related conflicts. Land insecurity, therefore, remains a bitter reality for most of the country's population.