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 ...

In 2025, Kenya’s devolution journey entered its twelfth year with a blend of optimism, hard lessons, and renewed calls for a ...

Kenya: Kenya’s on-going devolution process has taken-off on a rocky start as many feared. The central government and the Senate have been engaged in incessant wrangles with the later accusing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...