APRM • SECOND COUNTRY REVIEW REPORT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA • Ensuring accountable, efficient and effective public service delivery at the national and decentralized levels; • Promotion and protection of the rights of women; • Promotion and protection of the rights of children and young persons; and • Promotion and protection of the rights of vulnerable groups. 68. In the next section, the chapter outlines the implementation by Kenya of standards and codes. This serves as background to other sections that contain assessments of the country’s progress and challenges in regard of the eight objectives listed above against a backdrop of the picture in each instance of the situation as at the last Country Review of 2006. This is followed by a list of recommendations from the CRM on democracy and political governance. 3.2 Implementation of Standards and Codes 3.2.1 Summary of the Country Self-Assessment Report (CSAR) 69. The CSAR offers a very comprehensive and extended picture of the number and nature of standards and codes entered into by Kenya, along with their status. It shows the international, continental, regional and bilateral standards and codes that the country has signed since 2006 in such areas as basic UN and (O)AU instruments, human rights instruments, human rights, rights of women and children, and protection of refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and migrant workers, among others. In addition, it shows evidence (pp.576584) of a wide range of national policies, laws, administrative arrangements and statutory institutions put in place over time by the Kenyan government “to ensure compliance with codes or standards” ratified by Kenya on such issues as women’s rights, children’s rights, refugees, internally displaced persons, migrant works, persons with disabilities, and media freedom, among others. 3.2.2 Findings of the Review Mission 3.2.2.1 Progress made since 2006 Review 70 Annex II, at the end of this Report contains an illustrative Table, drawn from the second Country Self-Assessment Report with a list of multilateral and bilateral agreements sourced from the Kenya Ministry of Foreign Affairs in November 2016 by the CRM, provides details, within the context of available information, of standards and codes that touch largely on democracy and political governance that had been ratified and those yet to be ratified since independence in 1963. The Self-Assessment Report did acknowledge that “there is no data base containing the full list of standards and codes” to which Kenya has acceded. | 74 |