FIDA Kenya embraces mediation process as a way of settling disputes.
By Dickson Odhiambo
November 9, 2018.
FIDA Kenya embraces
mediation process as a way of settling disputes.
THE Federation of Women Lawyer in Kenya has embraced the
process of mediation as a way of an alternative Dispute Resolution mechanism
for settling disputes in some cases.
FIDA Kenya Chairperson Josephine Mong’are says the process
of mediation has proved to be working for the organization as an alternative
dispute resolution in settling disputes arising among Kenyans who have lodged
cases with the Organization.
Addressing Journalists in Kisumu during a meeting to
deliberate on how to collaborate with the media, the FIDA Chair said already
the mediation process has achieved 70 percent success rate when it was applied
last year in 2017.
She adds that some of the cases the organization has handled
through mediation include land issues, succession, and custody of children
among others.
She says this is compared to only 26 percent success rates
of the cases the Organization took to court last year.
“Most of the cases we have subjected through a meditation
process have given a positive feedback and this is very encouraging,” she adds.
Mong’are adds that cases like wife inheritance where women
have refused to he inherited and been chased away from their homes, child
upkeep cases, land matters among other are some of the cases FIDA considers for
mediation.
She adds the organization does not consider cases like rape,
defilement for mediation because they are criminal offences.
The FIDA Chairperson says already some mediators have been
trained to undertake mediation process on various cases the organization will
refer for mediation.
She further says some of the best mediators for FIDA have
been engineers and accountants, adding that one need not to be a lawyer to be a
mediator.
The FIDA Chairperson says plans have been mooted to
establish mediation center where all cases that needs mediation will be
handled, adding that currently the organization is doing a family based kind of
mediation.
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