The Sovereign Stewards of Biodiversity 297
Country
Biocultural
Local/community PIC
Legal
Source
community protocol
(with domestic texts and materials)
recognition of
BCP
Kenya
Ogiek BioPartially
Partially
https://www.ogiekpeoples.
Cultural
Relevant texts and materials:
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Community
Protocol
The Lamu County
Biocultural
Community
Protocol
• Constitution of Kenya, 2010, ss. 11(1) & 11(2); s. 11(3)(a); s. 69(1)
(c)
• The Environmental Management and Coordination Act No. 8
(1999) (EMCA)
• The Environmental Management and Co-ordination
(Conservation of Biological Diversity and Resources, Access to
Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing) Regulations (2006) (s.
9(1)), s. 9(2), Part III 2.0(g))
Ogiek-Bio-CulturalProtocol.pdf (English
version).
https://naturaljustice.
org/wp-content/
uploads/2019/04/LamuCounty-BCP-2018.pdf
(English version).
*(Medaglia, Perron-Welch, & Phillips, 2014, 94–95)
• Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions
Act, 2016 (No. 33 of 2016), s. 7, s. 10, ss. 18(1) & 18(2), s. 22(1),
25(3)(a), ss. 12 & 27
→Modelled upon the Swakopmund Protocol for the Protection of Traditional
Knowledge and Expressions of Folklore (Adopted by the Diplomatic
Conference of ARIPO at Swakopmund (Namibia) on 9 August 2010
and amended on 6 December 2016.
*(Mwangi, 2019; Nwauche, 2017; Nzomo, 2015)
(Continued)