Polycentric Governance and Irrigation Reform in Kenya

In K enya, as in many developing countries, centralized control over water resources was implemented to improve agricultural productivity. By the 1980s, however, K enya's postindependence policies of bureaucratic control were in disarray, and conflicts over water use were common. More recently, K enya has embarked on a series of reforms that create a polycentric approach to water governance, in which decision making about water resources is...