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 ...

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 ...

This Jamhuri I spent some time reading government publications on Kenya's history. Often, these publications say more about where government's policy is focused than all speeches on podiums put ...

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 ...

Devolution is one of the most transformative changes in the 2010 Constitution. Article 174 of the Constitution provides that the key objectives of devolution include promoting social and economic ...

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 ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Former President Mwai Kibaki leading nation in promulgating the 2010 Constitution at Uhuru ...

Since independence in 1963, the economic development of Kenya’s ethnically diverse regions has been designed by planners sitting at the Treasury in Nairobi. And the president in State House had 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 ...

Devolution increases the stakes locally and can also fuel tensions. Primaries in the ruling Jubilee Party and the NASA opposition. Devolution has transformed politics in Kenya, which goes to the polls ...