Practical guides for Kenyan campaigns and elections

Simple, practical guidance for candidates, campaign teams, political parties and election-day teams in Kenya.

Guides

• How to Manage Polling Agents in Kenya: A Practical Guide for Campaigns — How Kenyan campaigns can recruit, appoint, train and support polling agents so every polling station and stream is covered on election day.
• How to Set Up an Election War Room in Kenya — How Kenyan campaigns can set up a war room that tracks agents, incidents and results forms from polling day to the final declaration.
• How to Organise a Political Campaign in Kenya — A simple way to structure a Kenyan campaign, from the candidate’s core team to ward coordinators and polling-station agents.
• Political Campaign CRM Explained: Managing Supporters in Kenya — What a campaign CRM is, how Kenyan campaigns can use it to track supporters and follow-up, and how to stay within the Data Protection Act.
• What a Strong Aspirant File Contains: A Guide for Kenyan Parties — A simple checklist for party nomination teams handling aspirant applications, documents, nomination fees and vetting decisions.
• Clean Your Party Membership Register Before Nominations — A simple plan for Kenyan parties to fix duplicates, wrong wards and disputed memberships in their register before primaries.
• How to Reconcile Nomination Fee Payments (M-Pesa and Bank) — A step-by-step way for Kenyan party finance teams to match nomination fees to the right aspirant and seat and sort out problem payments.
• How to Run Party Primaries Across a Constituency — A practical plan for Kenyan party election boards running primaries across several wards: officials, venues, materials, results and disputes.
• Who Decided, and When? Recording Aspirant Vetting Properly — A simple guide for Kenyan party vetting committees on recording evidence, decisions, reasons and appeals.
• How to Manage Campaign Volunteers in Kenya — How Kenyan campaigns can recruit, organise and keep volunteers and mobilisers active, from ward teams to election day.
• Election Day Checklist for Kenyan Campaign Managers — A practical checklist for the final weeks before a Kenyan election: agents, transport, money, communication, security and results.
• How to Turn Field Reports Into Campaign Decisions — How Kenyan campaign teams can use ward reports, supporter contacts and past results to decide where to spend time and money.