Records last updated: 18 October 2024
Contact person: Christine Wachira
Current ongoing work
Open Ownership is providing technical assistance to improve the quality of the beneficial ownership (BO) data stored in the public procurement information portal and build the capacity of key actors to use this BO information to improve transparency and integrity in public procurement. We are also supporting the Business Registration Service to establish a regulatory framework for the disclosure and maintenance of accurate BO information for trusts.
Committed to one or more
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Live registerFollowing the launch of one or more beneficial ownership registers, a country is labelled as Live register.
Implemented one or more
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Implementation details
Business Registration Service (BRS)
- Name
- Business Registration Service (BRS)
- Scope
- Full-economy
- Register launched
- 2020
- Threshold used to determine beneficial ownership
- 10%
- Structured data publicly available
- No
- Published as BODS
- No
- Available via API
- No
Commitment details
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- Kenya has made a commitment to beneficial ownership transparency as part of the Beneficial Ownership Leadership Group.
- At the 2016 UK Anti-Corruption Summit, Kenya made a commitment to beneficial ownership disclosure. [12 May 2016] link to commitment
- Kenya has legally committed to publishing beneficial ownership data for entities awarded public procurement tenders via the passage of the Companies (Beneficial Ownership Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2022. [24 January 2022] link to commitment
- Kenya included a commitment to create a public beneficial ownership register and publish data in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard as part of its 2020-2022 Open Government Partnership National Action Plan [01 March 2021] link to commitment
- Kenya included a commitment to create a public register of beneficial ownership information in its 2018-2020 Open Government Partnership National Action Plan [10 December 2018] link to commitment
- Kenya included a commitment to create a public register of beneficial ownership in its 2016-2018 Open Government Partnership National Action Plan [01 July 2016] link to commitment
- Kenya has committed to having a central public register of beneficial ownership information on legal persons and arrangements operating in Kenya by January 2027 [02 January 2024] link to commitment
