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 framers of the 2010 Constitution embedded devolution as a structural safeguard against the concentration of political and economic power. Articles 174 and 175 outline its goals—democratic ...

A few questions define devolution. For instance, what do counties do with the money they get from the national government or our taxes? Two, do they generate their own revenues? And three, what is the ...

Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga appending her signature to mark the launch of The Ugatuzi Wall in her office. [James Omoro, Standard] When Dennis Onsarigo, a proud son of Gusiiland and former Raila ...

When a patient walks into a health centre in Bomet or a dispensary in Lamu, they are entering a county facility. The nurse who takes their temperature is a county employee. The records system 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A fresh row between Kenya’s lawmakers and governors has deepened tensions over who should control KSh10bn ($77m) earmarked for road repairs in their jurisdictions. Members of Parliament, whose major ...