Kenya
Administrative procedures for conferring citizenship on children born to citizen mothers and foreign fathers
Under Kenya’s previous Constitution, Kenyan women who gave birth to a child outside of Kenya with a non-Kenyan father were unable to pass down their nationality. This was reformed in 2010. As of 2015, problems with the implementation of this reform persisted due to lack of awareness by Kenyan women and government officials.
Promising Practices
In 2010, Kenya reformed its Constitution to allow Kenyan women to pass down nationality on an equal basis as men regardless of where the child was born, and applied the change retroactively. The reform also allowed women to confer nationality to their spouses on an equal basis as men.
Additional Documentation
Bordering Practice
Social
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa