Devolution increases the stakes locally and can also fuel tensions. Primaries in the ruling Jubilee Party and the NASA opposition. Since he bought a fleet of ambulances for the county, baby boys are ...

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 ...

If devolution is a double-edged sword, from where I sit I can only see the liabilities; the benefits are starting to look like a pipe dream. We have devolved everything undesirable, from corruption to ...

Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki lifts up the country’s new constitution, which introduced devolution, on 27 August 2010. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images Kenya devolved power and public spending to 47 ...

Before the advent of devolution, development financing was highly centralized. The NationalGovernment planned, negotiated and monitored development programs. Whereas thatgovernance model delivered ...

A boy carries water in one of Kenya’s arid regions that has been gripped by drought. Dong Jianghui/Xinhua via Getty Images The ability of Kenya’s 47 county governments to manage food security has been ...

During a meeting with Kenyan governors, President William Ruto ordered the transfer of all pending budgets and functions that are still being held by the national government to counties. “This ...

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

Kenya’s health systemstands at a critical crossroads. On paper and from a policy perspective, it isone of the most progressive systems in the region, but when it comes toimplementation, the realities ...

Kenya devolved power and public spending to 47 counties in 2013. This was in line with a global trend in which governments were pushing power and resources down to local levels in the hope that ...