KLIF
What is the Kenya Leadership Integrity Forum (KLIF)?
The Kenya Leadership Integrity Forum (KLIF) is a partnership and governance initiative established for a unified and integrated fight against corruption by the public and private sectors. The creation of partnerships and networks is for greater impact in promotion of ethics and integrity.
The mandate of KLIF is to provide mechanism through which stakeholders design and implement anti-corruption initiatives, leveraging on their strengths in addressing corruption.
KLIF Sectors and Stakeholders
There are twenty(20) sectors under KLIF, drawn from both the public and private as follows:
- Executive
- Legislature
- Judiciary
- County Governments
- Labour
- Anti-Corruption Agencies
- Enforcement
- Oversight Agencies
- Media
- Private Sector
- Professional Bodies
- Education
- Civil Society
- Faith Sector
- Constitutional Commissions
- Development Partners
- Transport sector
- Regional and Sub-Regional bodies
- Regulatory Bodies
- Financial Services Sector
The Citizens are also identified as stakeholders for their role in public participation, demand for transparency, accountability and good governance.
The Kenya Integrity Plan 2023-2028
The Kenya Integrity Plan KIP 2023-2028 is a blueprint that envisages collective action and partnerships in enhancing integrity and accountability in Kenya. The benefits of the collaborative approach envisioned through KLIF in the fight against corruption in Kenya cannot be gainsaid.
The Kenya Integrity Plan 2015-2019
Since 2015, the KLIF stakeholders have been implementing the Kenyan Integrity Plan (KIP) 2015-2019 which was formulated as a roadmap for all the KLIF sectors to implement a unified strategy to combat corruption in Kenya. All the sectors and the respective institutions implementing the KIP align their anti-corruption interventions to the KIP and develop annual action plans and progress implementation reports. These reports provide an opportunity to assess performance and measure the impact of the stakeholder’s anti-corruption activities.
Why Partner in the Fight Against Corruption?
The KLIF platform was designed to allow each sector to leverage on its competitive advantage to contribute to the fight against corruption, creating the requisite synergy for better results with shared resources.
KLIF has provided a framework through which the stakeholders collectively tackle corruption and unethical conduct across the various sectors by designing and implementing anticorruption initiatives in their respective sectors.
The spirit of partnership and collaboration recognizes that corruption takes place in all sectors. Therefore, it is imperative that all sectors are involved in preventing and eradicating it.
Some of the benefits of partnering in promoting ethics and fighting corruption are as follows:
- Provides unity of purpose for all those involved in the fight against corruption
- Leads to concerted efforts in fighting corruption
- Enables stakeholders to work towards a common goal of a corrupt free nation
- Enables sharing of ideas in solving the problems caused by corruption
- Promotes a culture of ethics and integrity
- Makes the fight against corruption inclusive
- Enhances a cohesive team and builds trust among partners in the fight against corruption
- Facilitates achievement of great results and impacts
- Creates ownership of the process
