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
- What can African governments do about failed ‘globalisation?’
- Thandika Mkandawire / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Globalisation in Africa has failed. Not because, as is traditionally argued, African governments haven’t adopted the right structural adjustment policies (SAPs), or because their effects take time to show. Structural adjustment h...
- Explaining ethnic voting in Kenya
- M. S. Kimenyi; R. G. Romero / Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), University of Oxford, 2008
- This study, using survey data on voter opinions and actual voter turnout in the Kenyan elections 2007, argues that ethnic voting can be explained on the basis of a minimax-regret strategy which suggests that the voter is motivated to ...
- Why is land such a potent issue in Kenya and other agrarian economies?
- C. Huggins; J. Wakhungu; E. Nyukuri / Eldis Community, 2008
- The violence which followed the contested December 2007 Kenyan election was, arguably, an opportunity for historical grievances to be settled. This paper focuses on the land issue in regards to Kenya, asserting that land is a primary ...
- Planning and managing the impacts of climate change on human migration
- M. Couldrey (ed); M. Herson (ed) / Forced Migration Review, 2008
- In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming one of the major policy challenges...
- Non-state justice systems in East Africa region
- C. Nyamu-Musembi / Department for International Development, UK, 2003
- This report focuses on non-formal justice systems in the East Africa region, and is based on a review of relevant experience in three East African countries: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. It aims to help a better understanding of the ra...
- Making the most of community based worker systems for effective service delivery
- P. Mbullu / The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2007
- Many communities in Africa are largely dependent on services provided by local people rather than by external agencies, including government. Such services include traditional birth attendants, traditional healers, farmer to farmer ex...
- Reforming Africa's power sector
- UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2007
- This study assesses the sustainability of power sector in Africa by examining the socio-economic and environmental impacts of power sector reforms in 14 countries in the region. It uses the results of the assessment to determine the e...
- Strengthening engagement with existing international human rights machinery.
- UN Wide Human Rights Policy Network- HuriTalk / United Nations Development Programme, 2008
- The UN member states’ commitment to actively protect and promote all human rights and support their further mainstreaming throughout the United Nations system requires increasing interaction and strengthened engagement with the ...
- Land grievances key to understanding forced displacement in Kenya
- Overseas Development Institute, 2008
- This policy brief explores the importance of land issues in forced displacement in Kenya, drawing out their implications for current humanitarian and early recovery interventions in the wake of the violence and displacement that follo...
- How can NGOs effectively influence policy agendas?: lessons from FARM-Africa's projects
- A. Bradstock; I. Hovland; H. Altshul / Farm Africa, 2007
- Increasingly, NGOs are becoming active in policy debates, yet a key question emerging from this new focus is whether NGOs can effectively influence the policy agenda. This publication presents four FARM-Africa projects from Ethiopia, ...
- 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
