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Kenya’s Social Development Proposals and Challenges: Review of Kenya Vision 2030 First Medium-Term Plan, 2008-2012
(2014-01)
Kenya faces several development challenges including poverty, disease, unemployment, negative civic engagement among others. The development bottlenecks worsened following the introduction of the IMF/World Bank-propelled ...
From Center to Margin: An Appraisal of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) as a Decentralization Strategy in Kenya
(2015-09-30)
Since independence in 1963, the governance of development in Kenya has faced
numerous challenges leading to poor economic performance and hence negative
consequences on Kenyans. The poor-rich gap has not only widened ...
Transparency and Accountability in Kenya: A Review of the Institutional Framework for Public Service Delivery
(2015-09-30)
Ethics and integrity that presuppose honesty and openness are integral components of any
undertaking to ensure efficiency in the utilization of resources and effectiveness in service
delivery. This requires a minimum ...
Nepad from below: Towards Intra-country Peer Review Mechanism (iprm) in Kenya
(Elixir, 2012-01)
Kenya is administratively divided into forty-seven (47) counties each of which shall be
under the stewardship of a County Governor once the new constitution is finally
implemented. These officers shall be tasked with the ...
Augmenting proletariat governance: lenses on chapter eleven of the constitution of Kenya, 2010
(Elixir, 2012-06)
Since independence, the governance of development in Kenya has for the most part been centralised under the armpit of government officials. As such devolution is vaguely
understood especially by grassroots leaders and ...
Economic Assistance to Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Community-Based Projects in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties: Challenges, Opportunities and Evolution
(International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society - Springer Link, 2015-10)
The International Fund for Ireland and the European Union (EU) Peace III Fund have provided external economic resources to local community projects in Northern Ireland and the Border region to support intercommunal relations, ...
Modus Operandi of Oppressing the “Savages”: The Kenyan British Colonial Experience
(Peace and Conflict Studies, 2018-05)
Colonialism can be traced back to the dawn of the “age of discovery” that was pioneered by the Portuguese and the Spanish empires in the 15th century. It was not until the 1870s that “New Imperialism” characterized by the ...
Challenges Facing Home Based Care Projects on HIV/AIDS Management in Africa
(2015-04)
HIV/AIDS has continued to pose a major challenge to the social-economical development of Africa since the infection was first diagnosed in Kenya in 1984. All the sectors of the African economy have been negatively affected ...
Post-2015 Development Planning: Adaption of a Holistic Approach to Planning and Research - a Commentary from a Practitioner’s Perspective
(International Journal of Innovation and Economic Development, 2004)
In this article, we analyse the argument that lack of holistic approach in planning and research have contributed to the lack of sustainable development in Africa. We base our discussion on the speech by the special advisor ...
Police Corruption and Canada’s Distinction
(African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019)
Corruption in policing is a topic for renewal, in any country, as the growing challenges and opportunities of advancing technology and Internet access, changing police science and the ever-evolving relationship of police ...