There is a story that the governor of Machakos, in southern Kenya, loves to tell: Since he bought a fleet of ambulances for the county, baby boys are no longer named Mwanzia and girls are no longer ...

NAIROBI: Tom Mboya Labour College, a follow-up to the first conference that was held in Kwale County in April 2014. Hosted by the Council of Governors (COG) in conjunction with the Ministry of ...

Kenya’s devolution is among the most ambitious in the world, transferring key functions and financing to an entirely new level of sub-national government Strengthening public participation is a key ...

The Constitution of Kenya 2010 provided for a new devolved system of government. The March 2013 General Election marked the beginning of devolution, which saw several key functions and resources ...

There are some functions of state that are best handled by national governments, others on a regional or local level. Certainly, federalism, or ugatuzi, is not "the easy way" to tackle political, ...

Michelle D'Arcy receives funding from the Swedish Research Council. It is five years since Kenya shifted from centralised control to devolution in which 47 counties were given a free hand to set their ...

The National Cohesion and Integration Commission has flagged five Kenyan counties as potential hotspots in the rollout of devolution as enshrined in the Constitution. Speaking at a meeting with ...

NAIROBI, February 4, 2015—Devolution and increased investment in infrastructure are improving Kenya’s prospects for growth and shared prosperity, says a new World Bank Group report released today. The ...

LIMURU, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya will launch a devolved system of government next year to try to hasten rural development, but many fear the main result will be to spread the chronic corruption that ...

Beginning in 2013, Kenya’s devolution of fiscal and administrative power to county governments has begun to address some of the historical marginalization of regions and ethnic groups not politically ...