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 ...

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 ...

Parliament has exposedhow widespread disregard for public finance regulations is sinking counties deeperinto a wage bill crisis.For years, debateover Kenya’s swelling public wage bill has largely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. On August 27 Kenyans will be celebrating not just the promulgation of the new Constitution ...

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 was re-introduced in 2013 rightly hailed as a transformative moment for historically marginalised regions. Since then, Northern Kenya counties have received hundreds of billions of ...