Kenya
Background
The Kenyan government has a current national action plan, The National Plan of Action for Combating Trafficking in Persons Strategic Framework 2022 - 2027 under the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection.
The Kenyan government with Alliance 8.7 published the Kenya Country Road Map 2025 - 2030.
The primary anti-human trafficking agency is Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection Unit under the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, State Department for Social Protection and Senior Citizen Affairs established the National Assistance Trust Fund.
The most recent report on human trafficking, The Problem of Human Trafficking in Kenya, was by the National Crime Research Centre in 2022.
In 2024, the Kenyan Financial Reporting Centre published a case study on human trafficking in their annual report.
There is no publicly available reporting or disclosure of dedicated funding for prevention of exploitation.
Data gathering and reporting is very limited.
Other Key Factors
Wage theft is prevalent in Kenya.
Freedom of association and collective bargaining are lawful in Kenya but under threat.
To understand Kenya’s situation more fully, we show the percentage of the population using the internet in Kenya, along with the highest usage and lowest usage countries amongst the G20 members (Saudi Arabia and India).
Kenya’s remittances are also shown with the respective highest and lowest inflow remittance countries in the G20 (India/Saudi Arabia) and the highest and lowest outflow countries in the G20 (US/Philippines). Keep in mind that remittance estimates are often an under count of actual remittance volume.(Graph unit is in Billion US$)
Kenya’s Role in the Global Economy and Its Supply Chains
Trade flows from The Observatory of Economic Complexity
Kenya’s Plan for Prevention
Kenya’s Budget for Implementing the National Plan and Related Activities
From 2021-2025, Kenya did not disclosed specific funding for anti-human trafficking and exploitation spending publicly, so we are not displaying any relevant budget in this section.