The National Consolidation Conference on Harmonizing Civil Society Position on Content Issues in the Harmonized Draft Constitution was organized by the Katiba Sasa! Campaign, which is hosted by the CRECO Secretariat. The purpose of the conference was to facilitate deliberations by CSOs on the Harmonised Draft Constitution with a view to develop a common position on the recommendations and views that would be shared with the COE.
This report captures the proceedings of the National Consolidation Conference held at Kasarani Sports View Hotel in Nairobi. The report is organized and presented in five main parts flowing chronologically namely; (i) Introductory background to the harmonizing Civil Society position on content issues in the harmonized Draft Constitution (ii) Presentations by the Technical Team and the invited speakers (iii) Analysis of the harmonized Draft constitution by the international
experts (iv) Group discussions and plenary review (v) Adoption of Resolutions and Common Position.
The technical details of the report are structured so as to capture and highlight the critical issues around which resolutions on a common position were based. These revolved around all the chapters of the HDCK and were incorporated into “the Harmonized Analysis Draft Constitution: the Civil society Position” document annexed to this report.