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 media has been challenged to strengthen their understanding of devolution and constitutional governance to improve the quality, accuracy and balance of reporting on county governments. The call ...

Garissa County Assembly Speaker Abdi Idle Gure giving hisaddress. /STEPHEN ASTARIKOGarissa county assembly speaker Abdi Idle Gure has called for a stronger role for county assemblies in 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The State Department for Devolution has disbursed Sh5.7 billion in Level 2 conditional grants to 46 counties to fund local development projects. The funding is part of the Second Kenya Devolution ...

Nairobi County has been locked out of the latest round of disbursements of World Bank-funded Sh5.7 billion conditional grants to all the devolved units, after it fell short of meeting reform targets ...

From left, Halima Shariff, CEO for Women of Hope Abled Differently (WOHAD) Melanie Omengo Twaweza East Africa Regional Manager and Kenya Devolution CSO’s convener Evans Kibet. [Juliet Omelo, Standard] ...

For decades, Nairobi has been Kenya's undisputed commercial capital, attracting businesses with its concentration of financial institutions, multinational headquarters, government agencies, aviation ...

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 ...