About Us

LRF has a Board of Trustees comprising of seven (7) Trustees (three women and four men). They are eminent persons who have expertise in education, media, finance, management, legal and human rights sectors. The Board is responsible for policy-making and oversight role. The day to day operations of the organization are guided by the Executive Director who runs the secretariat. The operations are spread in sixteen (16) Counties in the country with technical support from teams of volunteer lawyers, teachers, paralegals who work with the County administration, Kenya Prisons Service, Judiciary, National Police, Probation and Aftercare department and the community within the various program sites.

LRF has grown from a small organisation running a street law project for schools into a leader in training of paralegals, production of human rights publications and development of programmes that target to enhance access to justice for target communities. The programmatic operations are spread in 31 constituencies in Kenya. In pace with its growth patterns, LRF in 1999, 2003 and 2009  developed its first, second and third  and Strategic Plans enabling it to shift from the previous project planning to programmatic approaches.

LRF is an integral part of the Kenyan civil society and a member of the National Civil Society Congress. Increasingly, LRF has also taken up regional ( East, Central and Western Africa) and international training and advocacy initiatives in matters of publications of human rights materials, curriculum development and paralegal approach and consequently, sees itself as a critical civic voice in enhancing matters of access to justice.

LRF is guided by the Strategic Plan 2019 to 2023 with four (4) strategic pillars; Administration of Justice, Community Organisation and Effective Governance, Knowledge Development and Learning and Institutional Development and Capacity enhancement. LRF employs four (4) approaches in its work namely, the Paralegal Approach, Human Rights Based Approach to Development Programming (HRBAD), Capabilities Approach, and Practice Advocacy Approach. These approaches support, concretise and enhance all programmatic interventions and advocacy with a focus on Constitutional Implementation, Penal, Judicial and Security Sector Reforms (SSR), Social and Transitional Justice promotion, and peoples participation in governance processes as a key plank of the Kenyan Constitution.