After independence, Kenya adopted the standard practice of centralized control over water resources to improve agricultural productivity. By the 1980s, the centralized model was in disarray. In the current issue of
Governance, Elizabeth Baldwin,
Camille Washington-Ottombre, J
ampel Dell’Angelo,
Daniel Cole, and
Tom Evans explain what happened next. Kenya pursued a polycentric approach to water governance, in which decision making about water resources is shared among multiple, overlapping local, regional, and national authorities. The new approach has proved to be better suited to Kenya’s variable social and ecological conditions and the available resources of its administrative agencies.
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