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
- An empirical analysis of African political party manifestos
- S. Elischer (ed) / German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2010
- The third wave of democratisation in sub-Saharan Africa has led to a new interest in African political parties and their role in democratic consolidation. However few, if any, studies systematically compare political party manifestos....
- Kenya and vote-buying: analysing the effects
- E. Kramon / Afrobarometer, 2009
- Vote-buying has and continues to be pervasive in many electoral regimes. Yet the relationship between vote-buying and citizen behavior, particularly in the context of the secret ballot, remains largely unknown. In this paper the autho...
- Kenya: civilian assessment of the coalition government
- A. Oloo / Afrobarometer, 2010
- The briefing paper seeks to evaluate the performance of the coalition government in Kenya since its inception in 2007. Moreover, relying on a survey conducted in 2008, the paper demonstrates the public views about the coalition. ...
- Practical experiences of social accountability in Africa
- O. Shisana; M. Claasen (ed); C.A. Lardies (ed) / Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2010
- There are numerous examples of how citizens and civil society groups hold their government, private sector actors and donors accountable. However, these initiatives are often not known beyond the borders of the state or country where ...
- Enhancing the potential of ICTs for advancing democracy and empowerment in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2009
- Access to and the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) have been shown to have the potential to help bring about economic development, poverty reduction, and democratisation. This report examines the pot...
- Monitoring of election commissions: the UN's role in ensuring free and fair elections
- E. Joseph / The New York Times, 2008
- This New York Times article advocates for the establishment of a United Nations monitoring unit devoted to the work of election commissions. The author makes the argument that the international community’s typical election assis...
- An introductory guide to understanding and fighting corruption
- V. Kodongo (ed) / Africa Youth Trust, 2009
- What impact can Kenya’s youth have on corruption? This guide aims to bring together a unified understanding of what corruption is and takes a look at measures to fight it. In this publication, the Youth is considered as those ag...
- How can statelessness be addressed?
- B. K. Blitz (ed); M. Lynch (ed) / Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2009
- Sixty years after the international community embedded the right to nationality in the human rights architecture, approximately twelve million people around the world remain stateless. What are the hurdles to overcoming statelessness ...
- Pro-poor strategies for financing and delivering health services in mixed health systems
- D Donika; S Sealy; S Bergkvist / Results for Development Institute, 2009
- In their efforts to improve health systems, developing countries face the challenge of integrating traditional government health resources with a large and growing private health sector, where many poor people seek care. In these &ldq...
- Conducting social audits on the Kenyan Constituency Development Fund
- W. Gikonyo / Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2009
- A social audit seeks to evaluate how well public resources are being used and how to improve performance and aims to ensure maximum community participation in this process. The Constituency Development Fund (CDF) was introduced i...
- 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
