Kenya and Governance
- Capital:
Nairobi - Population:
40046566 - Size:
582650.0 Km2
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- The BLDS governance collection
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Search for the latest governance-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Issues and policy recommendations for ensuring the development and maintainance of Kenya's roads
- S.K. Wilson; W. S. K. Wasike / Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2001
- Development and maintenance of physical infrastructure are prerequisites for rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, as they influence production costs, employment creation, access to markets, and investment. This paper reviews a...
- Information and children's rights
- E. Halpin; A. Khan; D. Reale / Child Rights Information Network, 2002
- This working paper is a final draft of research into the needs of the child rights community. The research programme included a quantitative survey conducted between October 2001 and January 2002, a follow-up targeted survey of respon...
- Conflicts and collaboration over constitutional reform in Kenya
- M. I. Katumanga / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- The role of the National Convention Executive Council (NCEC) in engaging the Kenyan state for constitutional reforms is analysed in this paper. It argues that although NCEC (through mass action) was able to force the regime to initiat...
- The women's movement and democratic governamce in Kenya
- M. Ngugi / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- A transition has been taking place in the identity of the woman in Africa, from the most 'wretched of the earth' to a reasonably effective social force. In the 1980s, this force became politicised not only by external agencies, but al...
- The impact of aid on civil society in the processes of Kenyan democratisation
- J. Owiti / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- In the last two decades or so, nearly all northern governments and agencies have increasingly directed their activities to problems relating to the institutional restructuring of the state and widening the space for private markets. T...
- Contested modes of democratic transition in Kenya: universal/western and ethno-traditional
- M. Ngunyi / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- Kenya is experiencing a process of multiple transitions whose elements are for the most part incongruent and counter-productive. The author argues that the most pronounced tension in this process is that between the universal (western...
- Access to credit in Kenya
- R Atieno / African Economic Research Consortium, 2001
- The main objective of this study is to investigate and assess the role of the institutional lending policies of formal and informal credit institutions in determining the access to and use of credit facilities by small-scale entrepren...
- Review of the Africa's economic performance and near-term prospects.
- UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2002
- How did Africa’s economy perform in the global economic downturn of 2001? Africa was the only developing region to see faster growth in 2001 due to Changing commodity prices which provided mixed blessing...
- Most African NGOs rely too heavily on their founders and have limited accountability to donors and beneficiaries
- Centre for African Family Studies, Kenya, 2002
- Results of study commissioned by the Centre for African Family Studies and the Task Force on NGO Partnerships to examine the classification, leadership, governance and management of NGOs in Africa. This exploratory study was carried o...
- Pastoral groups in East Africa need to engage in policy debate
- C. Hesse; M. Ochieng Odhiambo / Drylands Programme, IIED, 2001
- This concept note explores initiatives aiming at supporting pastoral civil society in East Africa. The goals of the initiative include: create conditions such that pastoral groups can play a more effective and vi...
- Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies (CHRIPS)
- CHRIPS is an international institution, principally working in Africa, and committed to the generation and dissemination of policy-relevant knowledge and to the development of innovative public policy solutions that also promote human rights and social justice.
- Gender Governance Programme, Kenya
- The overall goal of the GGP is to transform leadership and governance at all levels in Kenya in order to deliver on poverty reduction, access to basic needs and equality between and among persons. The Gender and Governance Programme is in its third phase, and it is a multi-stakeholder programme formulated to deepen the gains of the Engendering Political Process Programme (EPPP) in ensur...
- Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE)
- The Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE) was founded in 2006 and has been working in the coastal region of Kenya. It was established to address democratic governance, socio?economic and youth concerns with a focus on the coast of Kenya.
- African Parliamentarians' Network Against Corruption (APNAC)
- Fighting corruption in sub-Saharan Africa
- Transparency International Kenya
- Transparency International Kenya is a non governmental organisation dedicated to increasing government accountability and curbing both international and national corruption
