Previous Events

Kenya’s 2010 Constitution: What has Changed? What is not Changing? Views from Afrobarometer Surveys. In 2010, Kenya adopted a devolved system of governance ande stablished 47 county governments. The main aim of this devolved governance system was to among other things improve governance, accountability, and strengthen Institutions for service delivery in Kenya. The new constitution, arguably, seeks to promote democratic governance and strengthen development for all. The broad question that we aim to answer is where are the successes and where are the failures if any?

The Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi (IDS) is the prime partner in a two-year research project that examines how decentralization impacts relations between citizens and the state and elites' incentives to provide public goods. The project is collaborative multi-regional research carried out by scholars from Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya and Zimbabwe) and North Africa (Morocco and Tunisia).

This study showcases the configurational and causal pathways for understanding variations in outcomes of security-leadership decisionmaking involving the use of big data and digital technologies in disaster events. The seminar discusses a multi-methodological study involving multiple cases across the globe with a special focus on the 2014 Lagos Ebola and 2012/2016 Lagos Flood disaster events. The study argues that this multimethod approach helps to create explanatory models for understanding the factors responsible for differential outcomes during disaster events.