Browsing Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM) by Subject "Decentralization"
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Decentralization of Rural Development: The Case of the Kenya District Focus Approach
(1989)In 1983 the Kenyan government launched the 'District Focus Approach' (DFA) to rural development. This approach aims at strengthening the capacity of the districts to plan and implement rural development programmes. It also ... -
Exit the State: Decentralization and the Need for Local Social, Political, and Economic Considerations in Water Resource Allocation in Madagascar and Kenya1
(Institute For Development Studies, 2008)This paper focuses on the iconoclasticism of water as a plentiful resource and the near universalization of decentralizing institutions to manage it. The authors explore two agro‐pastoral regions — Ambovombe District ... -
Pastoral Resilience among the Maasai Pastoralists of Laikipia County, Kenya
(MDPI, 2018-06-19)This paper addresses pastoral resilience by drawing out the coping strategies and mechanisms utilized by the Maasai Pastoralists through a food system approach, based on the study findings of an anthropological study of ...