"Security and Human Rights in Kenya's Extractives Sector"

Security and human rights challenges mustbe analysed comprehensively, based on ongoing risk assessments that should be held from the earliest stages of projects and involve meaningful stakeholder engagement, dialogue and participationRisk assessments often merely analyse hazards and security threats. This is necessary but insuf icient. Comprehensive risk assessment is needed to identify the underlying causes and immediate drivers of security and human rights risks and to determine effective responses to address them. An extractives operation could exacerbate existing problems of weak governance or social, political or ethnic con ict. Risk assessments failing to get to grips with contextual issues lead to misguided responses when security and human rights problems occur. [refers to Tullow Oil]