| dc.description.abstract | The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC), which was opened for signature in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on the 10th December, 1982, entered into force on the 16th November, 1994. It is a carefully balanced, comprehensive convention, accommodating a great variety of political, economic, social and strategic interests in the various issues of the sea. The convention was negotiated by The third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III), which lasted from 1974 to 1980, preceded by a preparatory process that began in 1968. Among
the many regimes envisaged in the Convention, the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) emerges among the most creative and revolutionary institutions of the LOSe. Tailored to address the economic concerns, some of which were championed by developing countries, the EEZ grants coastal states various functional competencies over their marine resources, safeguard their control and enables them to devise strategies for effective management and sustainable use of such resources.
At the UNCLOS III negotiation, Kenya was one of the strongest proponents of the concept of the EEZ and has ratified the Convention establishing the .regirne. It has also established its own EEZ and enacted legislation for implementing the convention. The objective of this work is to evaluate the propriety and effectiveness of the approaches, which Kenya has taken to use and control its EEZ. The study looks at both the legislative and the administrative end. Specific inquiry is made into the practical measures put in place to bridge the gap between the country's financial, technological inadequacy and development aspirations.
The study identifies a number of shortcomings in the twin areas of control and use of the EEZ and, with the help of a sampling of the experience of the selected coastal states, recommends a centralization of the legal, administrative and policy frameworks in the zone. These encourage greater collaboration by countries with advanced technologically countries and international development agencies to mitigate economic and technological shortcomings. frameworks devised by the country towards this | en_US |
