The Kenya Pastoralist Forum (KPF), is a programme within the Kenya Human Rights Commission, though in practical terms it is autonomous.
Owing to the hostile political climate in Kenya, the KHRC has provided legal hosting to human rights groups that have been denied registration by the Kenya governement. Thus the Release Political Prisoners pressure group (RPP), the Legal Resources Foundation (LRF), the Citizens for Constitutional Change (4Cs), Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI), and the Kenya Pastoralist Forum (KPF) operate as projects of the KHRC although they are in practical terms autonomous organisations. These legal covers, and the subsequent collaboration with these organizations, have enabled these projects to have a lasting impact on the struggle for the respect for human rights and democratization in Kenya.