American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

 This paper focuses mainly on the key challenges facing Child Witnesses that need to be fixed by the Witness Protection Program in Kenya. The study sought to achieve the following specific objectives: To examine parameters influencing protection of witnesses and find out if there are challenges in the Witness Protection Program with special reference to minors as witnesses. Study data was collected from Kenya’s criminal Justice agencies. Two methods of data collection were used. They include: in-depth interviewing and document analysis. The number of participants was determined by those who were likely to yield information being sought. Top five informants were selected from each eight selected agencies since they are better placed to give the relevant information. The study revealed that there is lack of training resources such as facilities, training institutions and trainers. The study further found out that there are no ideal infrastructural and communication facilities suitable for minor witnesses.