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Kenya's water act : opportunities for integration of customary institutions of water governance through water resources users associations and water service providers
(LawText, 2011)The need to develop sustainable systems for water resource governance in an environment of increasing scarcity and climatic variability has led to the re-evaluation of institutional frameworks. There has been a growing ... -
Governing the commons through customary law systems of water governance
(CEESP and IUCN, 2014)The resilience of customary law systems of natural resource governance in many parts of the world lends credence to Ostrom’s theory on the governance of commons. Ostrom argued that resource users who enjoy relative ... -
Stein’s ethic of care: an alternative perspective to reflections on women lawyering
(Routledge publishing, 2011)The book features significant and timely contributions which take contemporary and non-mainstream perspectives on the current and future shape of the legal profession. The essays not only describe the rapidly changing ... -
Gender dimensions of customary water resource governance : Marakwet case study
(Weaver Press, 2015)This book approaches water and sanitation as an African gender and human rights issue. Empirical case studies from Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe show how coexisting international, national and local regulations ... -
Customary law systems for water governance in Kenya
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015-07-31)In many jurisdictions including Kenya, the term ‘law’ is generally assumed to refer to enacted rules emanating from the state. Consequently, legal systems for water resource governance are considered largely as consisting ... -
Legal and policy frameworks for climate-friendly energy generation in Africa : energy security for future development
(Macmillan Education Namibia, 2015)Energy security is one of the most important future challenges for the international agenda of security, peace, and stability worldwide. Increasing energy supply needs and the aim of achieving greater energy independence ... -
ADR, access to justice and development in Kenya
(Kariuki Muigua and Company, 2014-05)Development is not feasible in a conflict situation. Conflicts and disputes must be managed effectively and expeditiously for development to take place. Formal mechanisms for conflict management have not always been ... -
Sustainability in the financial sector in Kenya
At the core of the concept of sustainability is the need to take into account the social, economic and environmental concerns in development. Sustainability ensures that economic growth takes into consideration social ... -
Tapping fresh currents: fostering early-career researchers in transdisciplinary water governance research
Water governance is an important, yet complex and contested field. A central challenge for researchers is to engage with multiple understandings and perspectives that can shape water governance, and to move towards more ... -
Governance,institutions & the human condition
This is a series of papers at the Fifth Annual Strathmore Conference published by LawAfrica -
Decriminalization of abortion and gender perspective
The initiatives that promote the decriminalization of abortion have shown the lack of clarity and precision that exists around some terms used by those who promote it. This is the case of the use of the term "gender ... -
The right to use customary law systems for water governance: a case of the Marakwet of Kenya
In many common law jurisdictions, legal systems for water resource governance are conceived primarily in the context of statutory law. However, in many cases water resource development and management, particularly at the ... -
ICC is on trial in Africa
The relationship between Kenya and the ICC is not an international relationship in the traditional sense. It is rather a devolved relationship. We could brand the ICC mediocre, unfair and irrelevant; a Western tool for ... -
Doing after thinking, let reason prevail
Newspaper article published on Daily Nation Thursday June 20, 2013 -
Difference between the gender perspective and the gender ideology
For more than a decade, the evolution of the word “gender” and its accompanying discourse have become increasingly important to intellectual debates and practice. the term was initially used in a grammatical arena to ... -
The recognition of indigenous customary law in water resource management
The role and place of customary law in `modern' statutory legal systems has been the subject of academic discourse, particularly in nations which had traditional legal systems in existence before the subsequent super-imposition ...
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