The place to begin is Article 174 of the Constitution, which sets out the objectives of devolution. Looking at that Article and history (back to the CKRC) we can see that the main objectives were to: ...

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 ...

As some 1,500 besuited international investors and government officials descended on Maanzoni Lodge in May for a two-day festival of PowerPoint briefings and executive networking, casual observers ...

Devolving power and resources from the centre to the counties was a key pillar of Kenya’s 2010 referendum vote. EPA/Dai Kurokawa It is five years since Kenya shifted from centralised control to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Since he bought a fleet of ambulances for the county, baby boys are ...

Just weeks after being exposed as the catalyst for a near-catastrophic fuel shortage that forced Kenya into an emergency oil deal, Gulf Energy Limited is at the centre of a fresh scandal. Dangote eyes ...

Last week, Makueni County hosted Kenya’s seventh devolution conference. The broad thematic area was on multi-level governance for climate action. A key sub-theme of the conference was on lessons ...