Paralegal Experiences With Citizenship Rights in Kenya

The stories in this publication are written by paralegals. It provides a platform for paralegals to reflect on the laws that they have learnt, their experiences working with their respective communities and strategies or experiences in pushing for non-discrimination in access to nationality documentation.

Namati has been working closely with community-based organizations in areas that face gross discrimination to recruit and train community-based paralegals. These paralegals have been our foot soldiers who have handled over 20,000 cases from 2013 to-date. From these cases there have been many lessons learnt for the project team and the paralegals themselves. The continuous learning and reflections have also led to tremendous growth of the paralegals. In turn, the paralegals have transferred what they’ve learnt to the communities they work with.