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Over the past decade, Kenya’s devolution reform has fundamentally reshaped the country’s public sector by transferring responsibility for a wide range of public sector functions—including primary health services—to 47 county governments. The intent of this constitutional transformation was not merely to establish subnational political or administrative structures, but the creation of a more responsive, accountable, […]
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