INVITATION TO LAUNCH OF ‘TALK TO YOUR REGULATOR’ INITIATIVE ON 19 MAY

I can confirm that I will attend this event.

Thanks for the invitation.

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Innocent 

—- On Fri, 16 May 2025 20:14:50 +0300 [email protected] wrote —-

Hi Kimari,

I confirm my availability for this

Thank you 

Regards,

Adhiambo Otieno,

Advocate of the High Court of Kenya

Telephone:- +254725574290

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On Fri, 16 May 2025 at 19:51, James Mwole via KICTANet <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Kimari,

I confirm my availability for this. 

Thank you and Best Regards,James Mwole,

On Fri, May 16, 2025, 19:11 Kimari via KICTANet <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:

Dear Partner,

The Kenya non-profit organizations’ Working Group on the Financial

Action Task Force in partnership with the Public Benefit Organizations

Regulatory Authority (PBORA) invite you to the Launch of the “Talk To

Your Regulator” (T2R) Initiative.

The launch will be a hybrid half-day meeting that will take place on

Monday, 19th May 2025 at Sarova Stanley Hotel, Nairobi from 8:00

am-2:00pm.

The conference will bring together diverse civil society organisations,

oversight and regulatory bodies, and representatives of financial

institutions and development partners to share insights and debate

critical issues related to oversight and regulation of terror financing

risks in Kenya’s non-profit sector. Discussions will focus on fostering

an enabling environment for non-profit organisations by bridging the

knowledge gaps in the regulatory framework, mitigating their

misapplication and addressing adverse effects on the civic space.

The timing of this conversation is crucial as the Public Benefits

Organizations Act (PBO Act) 2013 comes into operation, and as the

Government of Kenya works to address deficiencies in its anti-money

laundering and counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime. Kenya

was grey listed in 2024 following Mutual Evaluation by the East and

Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG). The Financial

Action Task Force (FATF) regional body found that Kenya lacks a clear

strategy for prosecution of money laundering offenses, has not

adequately investigated and prosecuted terror financing, and has an

underdeveloped risk-based approach to anti-money laundering and

countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) supervision. It further

concluded that while Kenya has a large non-profit sector, it is largely

unsupervised and unregulated, hence the risk of terror financing abuse

remains unidentified.

The Talk to Your Regulator (T2R) Initiative aims to foster stakeholder

collaboration and dialogue to develop actionable strategies for ensuring

risk-based approaches are taken in terror financing oversight and

regulation of the NPO sector. With Kenya now on the FATF’s grey list and

subject to increased monitoring, there is impetus to review the

interrelated factors that have led to an uncoordinated regulatory and

supervision regime in the non-profit sector. Through the T2R, the NPO

Working Group will work to ensure civil society voice and representation

in efforts to revise the NPO regulatory framework. This collaborative

approach will help ensure that oversight and regulation measures are

effective in combating financial crimes, risk-based, and do not disrupt

or discourage legitimate NPO activity.

Please find attached the Launch agenda and concept note, which outlines

the topics to be discussed and the objectives of the event.

Please confirm physical attendance by responding to this email or

register using this link if you wish to attend online

us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/l9_8ejKFSPiOh5e3d3sA5g

For any enquiries about the conference or the NPO Working Group, please

reach out to mailto:[email protected] or  mailto:[email protected]

We look forward to your participation and collaboration.

Best,

Kimari

Programme Manager, Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies