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: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...