Negotiating Social Policies in Kenya Mariana S
Negotiating Social Kenya in Policies Negotiating This book examines the nature of Kenyan state-society relations through the prisms of two social policies: free primary education and HIV/AIDS prevention and care. It asks: what roles have the enactment of social policies and aid within decision-making arenas played in the con- figuration of the contemporary Kenyan state?; and how have ethnicities and local redistribu- tion of re-sources shaped negotiations within the implementation arenas? It is argued that Ke- nya’s political competition for resources, together with donor-led reforms, eroded government social provision thereby strengthening other means of redistribution that are ethnicity-based. Mariana Cifuentes Montoya is a social researcher from Mexico. She has worked with a range of different organizations in France, Brazil, Kenya and Mexico, including research institutes, government bodies and international organizations. In 2004, she moved to Kenya to work on a participatory governance research project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, in a poor urban settlement of Nairobi. This experience encouraged her to undertake long-term research on the state-society relations in Kenya. In November 2007 she was admitted to the doctorate programme at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Mariana is currently living in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea working on access to social services in different ethnic communities. She has an MPhil in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (UK, 2000-2002) and a BA in Econo- mics from the University of The Americas (Mexico, 1994-1999). NEGOTIATING SOCIAL M POLICIES IN KENYA: ariana S.
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