![]() The district was established as the basic level responsible for operational tasks with relatively limited strategic functions. ![]() The DFRD policy identified the district as the most basic and effective unit for planning, development, and delivery of public services in Kenya. Kenya has a long history of decentralization dating back to the early 1980’s when the government published the district focus for rural development (DFRD) strategy in 1983. Decentralization typically takes either or a combination of the following four forms : delegation, where authority is transferred to semi-autonomous agencies that carry out functions that were previously carried out by government ministries deconcentration, where authority is shifted from national structures to sub-national offices of the same national structures devolution, where authority is shifted from national structures to structures within autonomous or semi-autonomous local governments and Privatization where, ownership changes from public to private entities. ![]() Decentralization has been widely implemented in low and middle income countries as part of broader economic and political reforms.
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