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 ...

Morethan a decade after the advent of devolution, Kenya’s energy sector remains devolvedin law but predominantly centralized in practice. Constitutionally, CountyGovernments are mandated to undertake ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

The history of Northern Kenya and marginalisation goes as far back as the colonial days. The same trend used by colonisers has remained in play. Historical evidence points at a neglected, abandoned ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over 50,000 active military personnel have been onboarded into the Civil Servants Housing Mortgage Scheme in a new partnership that seeks to make home loans accessible to the uniformed officers. US ...

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 ...

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 ...