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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution begins its assessment tour of Isiolo county today to determine the status of devolution and constitution implementation in the county. CIC ...

Devolution is the creation or strengthening - financially or legally - of sub-national units of government, the activities of which are substantially outside the direct control of the central ...

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 ...

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 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 ...