Workers Rights Watch – Kenya

Our Activites

At Workers Rights Watch, we always set out to ensure we make a change through our activities.

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Activities

Although our activities are mainly donor based, with a key interest in the Kenyan horticultural sector, WRW formed a subsidiary group for the purpose of offering a greater opportunities for our work, creating and developing links with different sectors and other consultancies. This group is an association of members from HR and management professions, legal experts and human rights activists in Kenya, aimed at growing a platform that will ensure business and human rights have a sustainable and profitable link.

 

The group known as “Simple Solutions Consultants” will function mainly as a think tank to help draft and advocate systems/ procedures that will help both businesses and activists to limit and remedy persistent issues that pose threat to investment or violates the rights of employees and their surrounding communities.

 

This group is being hosted and supported by WRW within the time-frames of January 2017- January 2019 and will thereafter hold its functions as an independent institution. The group was designed and is currently headed by our programmes expert on Gender sensitive management under WRW terms and policies.

Our Activities Include:

  • Research & survey

  • Proposal writing

  • Training

  • Mentorship programmes

  • Social Auditing

  • Consultancy

  • Report delivery

Our Key Areas of Intervention

Our activities mainly focus on the following areas.

Flower Campaigns

The role of workers and employers in implementing codes of practice and ethical business.

Sexual Harassment

Tackling sexual harassment at the workplace

Labour Laws

The role of workers and employers in implementing codes of practice and ethical business.

CSR - Public Rallies

Public rallies to address the issues of corporate citizenship in Kenya.(CSR)

Training of Trainers

Training of trainers (TOT) in Kenya.

HIV/AIDS Policies

HIV / AIDS policies and rights at the work place

Strategiec Activities

We are currently working on the following;

  • Research

    Research, Baseline study and information dissemination on issues affecting workers in the agribusiness

  • Training

    Training of shop stewards, gender committees and employers on their respective roles regarding employee welfare and methods of approaching and eliminating malpractices

  • Sexual Harrasment

    Eliminating sexual harassment in the flower sector

And working on means to address the following;

  • Delivery Improvement

    Gaps and matters arising from previous and ongoing activities.

  • Social Justice

    Promoting social justice for trade unions and workers in Kenya

  • Social Audits

    Shadowing of social qualification audits in the flower farms.

  • Minimum Wage Determination

    Determining the living wage in the horticulture industry.

Proposed Areas to Research on the Living Wage

We are currently working with Fairtrade and WWW to consider the following in a research to establish a standard living wage in the flower sector