NATIONAL REPORT 2016 Implementation targets 1) Adopt the anti-torture bill currently before Parliament and ensure that the bill contains appropriate provisions setting out torture victims’ right to rehabilitation and documentation of their allegations. 2) Make the National Victims Fund under the Victims Protection Act fully operational by appointing a competent and independent board and ensuring sufficient budgetary allocations. 3) Establish functional and sufficiently funded legal aid schemes to ensure that victims have effective access to redress. 4) Make fully operational and adequately fund the Restorative Justice Fund announced by President Kenyatta during his State of the Nation address in March 2015. 5) Take concrete steps to improve the provision of mental health services in the country. These should include collecting and publishing data on availability of mental health services and ensuring that there is adequate funding for such services. 6) Ensure that the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights is adequately resourced to support victims getting other forms of reparation than legal redress. 7) Ensure that investigations of torture and ill-treatment are done in accordance with the standards of the Istanbul Protocol including by establishing a capacity building programme for all professionals involved in such investigations. 8) Put in place an adequate legal framework and mechanism to protect those working to support victims of torture and ill-treatment from reprisals. page 12