Constitution & Reform Education Consortium

CRECO is governed on the basis of a Trust Deed. The Deed has established a Management Committee comprising the Trustees, a Governing Council comprising a representative from each CSO and the General Assembly as the supreme decision-making organ of the consortium. The General Assembly elects a 7-member Management Committee (MC) ever two years to oversee the management of the Consortium. The Management Committee has established a secretariat to implement the programs and policies of the Consortium.

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Voter Registration
President Mwai Kibaki officially launched the voter registration exercise which commenced on 19th November 2012 and ended on 18th December 2012. The registration drive was conducted for 30 days. IEBC hired and trained over 30,000 clerks to man 25,000 registration centers countrywide, using 15,000 Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits. The IEBC report indicated that a total of 14, 337, 399 Kenyans registered as voters, representing 79.7% of the 18 million Kenyans that had been targeted to be register. There was Voter apathy that saw very few people register.
The voters’ register was later opened for public inspection on 12th January 2013 and lasted till 27th January 2013. To confirm voting registration details, one needed to either send their national identity card or passport number to the short text message code 15872, or visit one’s registration centre.
Total Registered Votes per Province/Region.

1) Rift Valley- 2,990,873
2)Central – 1,976,063
3)Nyanza – 1,878,819
4)Eastern – 1,583,419
5)Nairobi – 1,548,217
6)Western – 1,283,353
7)Coast – 994,070
8)N.Eastern- 319,550

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The upcoming general elections in Kenya, slated for March 04 2013, are the second-most important since the independence elections held in May 1963. While most of Kenya’s electoral processes have largely been peaceful (save for 1992, 1997 and 2007), there remains fissures that always point to a breakdown of electoral rules and general disorder in most of the elections held since resumption of multiparty politics.

Download the full paper here: The Constitution Implementation Process with a Focus on Elections oct 2012