The Land Reform Process in Kenya

A Study of the Agenda

Setting and

Decision-Making

Process of Land

Reform in

Kenya

What’s Land Reform?

The Kingdon’s Approach to show the « magic » of the Agenda setting

How political alliances have being built, broken up and reconstituted, thus affecting the policy process

Historical trajectory structuring socio-political system land rights insecurity & conflicts politicisation & ethnicisation of land allocations by the postcolonial governments

The ideas enshrined in the 2009 Policy, were already spelt out in the 2002 Draft of the Constitution, called The People Choice.

Problem Stream: Land Question ComplexeS

Policy Stream: Entangled within the Constitution Review

Politics Stream: Regime Transformations

Adding a Forth Stream: the International Forum and how it structured Civil Society

End of the Cold War & SAP

Compliance with Multiparty Democracy

Dialectic of Aid for Development: Rolling back the State

Structuring a Neo-liberal Civil Society

Capacity-building for Policy Advocacy

The Kingdon’s Approach to show the « magic » of the Agenda setting

How political alliances have being built, broken up and reconstituted, thus affecting the policy process

Historical trajectory structuring socio-political system land rights insecurity & conflicts politicisation & ethnicisation of land allocations by the postcolonial governments

The ideas enshrined in the 2009 Policy, were already spelt out in the 2002 Draft of the Constitution, called The People Choice.

Problem Stream: Land Question ComplexeS

Policy Stream: Entangled within the Constitution Review

Politics Stream: Regime Transformations

Policy W

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ow w

hen Policy Enterpreneurs m

anage to couple the three Streams

Keys Dates of the Land Reform Process 2002: The year of many turning points that catalysed the

reform process, by setting it on the political agenda;

2004: The NLPFP officially started and the Reform Process reached its climax;

2005: Failure of the Constitution Revision as a result of political skirmishes and closing of the policy window;

2007: Post-electoral violence the problem stream catches up with the policy and politics streams imposing itself on the political agenda;

2009-2010: The post-crisis NARC embarked in a course for reforms, incited by international community and pressurised by domestic socio-professional mobilisations.

The reforms adoption was almost inevitable, so it is its implementation?