The Kenyan Constitutional Reform Process: A Case Study on the work of FIDA Kenya in Securing Women’s Rights

This article tracks the 2010 constitutional reform process through which FIDA Kenya (the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya) worked to demand that the reform process recognize the importance of women’s rights to equality. The case study is organized into chronologically-based categories of work based on the different phases of the reform process. It suggests that making the demand for women’s rights within high-level processes of legal reform entails a huge range of tasks and skills, which include experience in legal analysis and the drafting of law, media strategy, political networking, community education, and intensive planning in often unpredictable situations.