Published in July 2020
The devolution of administrative functions to counties has improved service delivery within the pastoral economies of northern Kenya. This paper takes stock of the impacts of the recent devolution in Kenya on livestock trading in Kenya's northern counties (mainly Garissa, Wajir, Marsabit, Turkana, Mandera), and across the border with Somalia and Ethiopia.
Ng'asike_ Making devolution work for livestock trading in Northern Kenya.pdf (uonbi.ac.ke)
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- Devolution has improved administrative state functions at the county levels in northern Kenya.
- In 2018/2019 FY, counties in northern Kenya received an annual budget of over Kshs. 50 Billion, with Garissa receiving an allocation of Kshs. 7 billion,
- In 2018, the World Bank through The North and North-Eastern Development Initiative (NEDI), invested US$2 Billion in the counties in northern Kenya,
- The annual cattle revenue collected at Garissa market in 2018 exceeded US$500,000, without including the formal taxation of goats, sheep, and camels,
- Limited skilled officials is slowing the positive impact of devolution to the counties in northern Kenya,
- Overreliance on brokers and wrong time of sales are poor marketing strategies that attract losses within pastoralists’ economies in northern Kenya, are the major causes of economic risks/losses.