Land law reform in Kenya: Devolution, veto players, and the limits of an institutional fix

Boone, Catherine; Dyzenhaus, Alex; Manji, Ambreena; Gateri, Catherine W; Ouma, Seth; Owino, James Kabugu; Gargule, Achiba; Klopp, Jacqueline M.

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“…In Machakos County, conventional wisdom held that the governor worried that a CLMB would impede his desire to build a new city on public land (Watson, 2014). In other counties, governors and their assemblies failed to agree on the membership, with these fights being proxy battles related to political rivalries within the county (Boone et al, 2019). The unpopularity of CLMBs with some elected officials was coupled with lack of understanding by land professionals.…”

Section: Constitutional Reform and Land: The Realitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It explores the political economy of land in Kenya by examining incentives for and impediments to institutional change to attain better land management and long sought-after land justice. As with many of the governance and market reforms adopted throughout the Global South in recent decades, Kenya’s effort to streamline and rework land institutions was premised on ‘getting the incentives right’ (Boone et al, 2019; Malpezzi and Mayo, 1997). Incentivising behaviour, however, is extremely complicated in a sector as complex, dynamic and profitable as the land sector, which is characterised by multiple stakeholders who have diverse and even conflicting objectives relative to land.…”

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Reform and resistance: The political economy of land and planning reform in Kenya

Bassett

2019

Urban Studies

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In August 2010, Kenyans voted to adopt a new Constitution. Amongst its many provisions was devolved governance, which established 47 independent counties each led by a directly elected governor and legislative assembly. The Constitution also sought to address the country’s ‘land question’ by radically reworking land institutions and administration. The Constitution introduced an independent body, the National Land Commission, empowered to oversee public land management and allocation. Constitutional provisions devolved significant powers and responsibilities in land management and planning to the county level. These reforms – stressing transparency, accountability and greater community participation in land planning and administration – were intended to halt endemic corruption at the Ministry of Lands, address land injustices, enhance tenure security, and facilitate better-functioning land markets. This paper examines the unfolding institutional reform around land pursuant to the 2010 Constitution. It explores the political economy of land in Kenya by examining incentives for and impediments to institutional change toward better land management and long sought-after land justice. As with many reforms adopted throughout the Global South, Kenya’s land reforms were premised on ‘getting the incentives right’. Incentivising behaviour is extremely complicated in a sector as complex, dynamic and profitable as the land sector. The research highlights the role of urban planners, actors rarely examined in the literature on Kenya’s land politics. Kenya’s faltering land reform is a result of the internal conflicting incentives of land actors and the fact that no legal reform will be sufficient to alter entrenched behaviour without renewed pressure from a broad-based land justice/human rights movement.

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Section: Constitutional Reform and Land: The Realitymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Reform and resistance: The political economy of land and planning reform in Kenya

Bassett

2019

Urban Studies

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“…This needs to be taken into account when thinking about how public policy can escape elite capture or diversion of resources to ensure policy implementation in the public interest. One clear example is in Kenyan land policy where critical redistributive and regulatory reforms often seem to be captured, derailed, or vetoed by powerful national and local actors (Klopp and Lumumba 2017;Boone et al 2019;Gargule and Lengoiboni 2020).…”

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The Global Nature of Policy Problems

Klopp

Halakhe²

2021

Governing Kenya

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Kenya emerged out of resistance to the geopolitical processes of colonialism and, in a globalized world, the country remains heavily imbricated in complex trans-national forces with wide-ranging implications. This chapter looks at how Kenyan public policy is confronted by and addresses current global challenges and forces. Kenya faces diverse trans-boundary policy issues, including climate change, deforestation and biodiversity loss, counter-terrorism, corruption, migration and refugee flows, foreign investment, remittances, aid, disruptive and rapid technological transformation along with expanding power of global technology companies, misinformation, and surveillance. All these processes also interact with each other adding to policy complexity and raising profound multidimensional

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“…This can be attributed to change in government regimes and the affiliated political insecurities. Narok region has been a hotbed of political rivalries and conflicts (Boone et at., 2019) owing to its metropolitan nature. There were political clashes in the region in 1997 and 2007 (following national general election polls).…”

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Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on Small & Middle-Income Economies (SMEs) in developing nations: A case study of Narok Town, Kenya

Masago

Okombo

Alice

et al. 2020

DUTCH J FINANCE MANA

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The COVID-19 pandemic caught many Small and Middle-Income Enterprises (SMEs) unaware and unplanned. The pandemic led to restriction of several economic activities in Kenya; key amongst them transportation, tourism and education. The ripple effect of these restrictions caught up with SMEs, taunted to be a growing economic pillar in Kenya. This study purposed to analyze the exact effect of the pandemic on SMEs in Narok region, Kenya using various economic metrics. The findings were geared to furnish policy makers with the exact economic situation resulting from COVID-19. A case study research design was used with the help of questionnaires, interviews and observations. The researchers found out that most of the entrepreneurs were actually youthful. Commencement of SMEs was largely dependent on the political environment. Most of the SMEs in the region had begun between 2016 to 2018. The number of employees per SME had been effectively reduced to an average of 2 with their daily wages reduced from Ksh. 800 to 200. The pandemic reduced the supply of SMEs stock from other regions into Narok. 82.86% of the SMEs were forced to obtain stock within the county itself. Both the supply of stock to SMEs and their corresponding demand by buyers were drastically reduced by 77.14% and 91.43% respectively. There was however no significant increment in the pricing of the products (P < 0.05). The net profit margins of the SMEs reduced from in excess of Ksh. 20,000 to about Ksh. 5,000 per month. Other auxiliary services such as finance lenders, insurance and marketers were equally affected. About 54.45% of the SMEs were facing dissolution by their owners should the situation persist. In conclusion, the researchers found out that COVID-19 was more of an economic pandemic rather than a health pandemic in the study region. The authors recommend the national and county government to cushion the premises by waiving off some of their taxes.

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Land law reform in Kenya: Devolution, veto players, and the limits of an institutional fix

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