Winluck Wahiu

International assistance

The role of international or external support for national processes of constitution building has an instrumental impact on the design of these processes and the institutional choices that ultimately are framed in constitutions.

Training programme

The new Constitution Builders CONNECT Resource – is an interactive training tool that reinforces sharing experiences as a means to building the capacity of practitioners to solve some of the dilemmas that they face in constitution building.

Handbook

The Handbook reviews and discusses some of the institutional and procedural design choices that practitioners have recently considered during contemporary constitution building.

Issue papers

Selected issues are considered at length based on emerging and ongoing dialogues among practitioners and specialists.

Multimedia

A collection of multimedia resources from and about constitution-building processes.

Web links

The web links provide a comprehensive list of relevant organizations and partners working in constitution building and related subjects.

Winluck Wahiu

Job Title: Project Manager

Joined International IDEA in September, 2006.

Nationality: Kenya

Programme: Design of Democratic Institutions and Processes (Constitution-Building Processes)

Office: Stockholm (HQ)

Phone: +46 8 698 37 00 (switchboard)

Email: w.wahiu@idea.int


Expertise at International IDEA:

  • Constitution Making
  • Comparative Constitutional Law

Experience:

  • In 2008, Winluck was acting Programme Manager for IDEA in Nepal, where he assisted to establish a programme in support of a participatory process of constitution building as Nepal transitioned from war to peace and from monarchy to republic.
  • Previously, he was involved in advising and drafting Kenya's draft constitution which went to referendum in 2005.
  • In 2001 to 2005, he gained practical experience of national implementation of human rights norms through litigation strategies as Programme Coordinator of the African Human Rights and Access to Justice Programme, an initiative under the umbrella of the Kenyan and Swedish Sections of the International Commission of Jurists. He was the recipient of a commendation of the Kenya Law Society in 2004.

Education:

  • Honours Bachelors Law degree from University of Nairobi
  • Diploma, Kenya School of Law

Languages: English, Swahili

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