Thika town is on the verge of becoming the next City in Kenya as the Senate Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations is considering an application for the municipality to be ...

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 ...

The third annual Devolution Conference, which will be held this week in Meru County, is a golden opportunity to assess the impact of devolution in Kenya. This year's theme is premised on the promise ...

Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino has criticized the newly signed national-county cooperation framework on Nairobi's governance, terming it the "greatest attack on devolution since its ...

More than Sh4 trillion has flowed tocounties since 2013. That staggering sum was meant tobring services closer to the people, deepen democracy and correct decades ofcentralised neglect.Instead, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...