Services
Services
Wazo Africa works at the point where policy becomes law and law becomes practice. Three services, one method: get the evidence right, find the ground you can hold, and draft to it.
Policy Advocacy
We build and run the case for a change in policy or law — and the record that makes it persuasive.
- Public petitions to Parliament under Article 119 of the Constitution and the Petition to Parliament (Procedure) Act — drafting the petition, assembling the evidence, and following it through the relevant departmental committee.
- Memoranda and submissions on Bills and draft policies — for the National Assembly, the Senate, county assemblies and regulators, and for the public-participation stage of rule-making.
- Coalition and stakeholder strategy — mapping the decision, the veto points and the evidence each audience needs.
- The evidence base — affidavits, expert opinion, comparative practice and a documented history of engagement, so an argument arrives as a demonstrated case rather than an assertion.
Legislative Drafting
We draft primary and subsidiary legislation and the instruments around it, built to fit the constitutional architecture and to survive committee and court.
- County Bills — including a template series of rangeland-management Bills (steering committee, county directorate, sub-county and ward committees, zoning, grazing plans, a rangeland fund) and livestock trade and marketing Bills.
- Regulations and legal notices — subsidiary legislation under an enabling Act, drafted with the vires, the parent provision and the scrutiny process in mind.
- Policies and sessional papers — the policy document that a Bill implements, and the Cabinet or county memoranda that carry it.
- Redrafting and harmonisation — aligning an existing Act or Bill with the Constitution, with parent legislation and with a treaty that binds Kenya.
Draft Bills prepared by Wazo Africa are working drafts. A Bill becomes a published Bill only when it is introduced and published by the relevant County Assembly, the National Assembly or the Senate.
Business Development
For organisations whose work runs in and around government, we connect the regulatory picture to the commercial one.
- Regulatory strategy — how a rule, a tax measure or a licensing regime changes what is possible, and what to do about it.
- Market and sector analysis — the position of a sector, the price and supply dynamics, and where policy is the binding constraint.
- Proposals, concept notes and expressions of interest — the written case for a programme, a partnership or a bid.
- Institutional design — constitutions, codes of practice and governance instruments for associations, community-based organisations and self-regulating bodies.
Home-School Regularisation
A specialist practice that brings our advocacy and drafting work together for one purpose: helping home-schooling families and their organisations move from a legal grey zone to a recognised, defensible footing.
- Strategy for engaging the authorities — how to deal with a Sub-County Director, a summons or a prosecution; what to concede, what to hold, and when to escalate.
- Sharpening the advocacy — the winnable argument, the evidence that proves a child is learning to standard, and a documented record of good-faith engagement with the Ministry.
- Self-regulation instruments — a community-based organisation, a code of practice, a quality-assurance arrangement and a register, drafted so the State can recognise them.
- Routes to recognition — regulations under the Basic Education Act, a public petition to Parliament, or administrative recognition by the Ministry, pursued in parallel.
Our thinking on this is set out in the working paper Best Evidence and the Winnable Issue.