How Sh20m registration fee locks communities out of land titles

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Attendees at the launch of the Sajili Ardhi ya Jamii community-driven campaign on June 23, 2026. [Courtesy]

A decade after Kenya passed a law meant to secure community land rights, only 64 of about 1,000 communities have received title deeds.

The Sajili Ardhi ya Jamii Campaign, launched on Tuesday, June 23, brings together indigenous peoples and local communities who collectively steward 34 million hectares, roughly 60 per cent of the country's land mass, and who say the 2016 Community Land Act has remained largely unimplemented.

The campaign's central demand is that every community land holding in Kenya be registered and titled by 2030.