Presented at the Public Policy Executive Program conducted at the Strathmore business school in Nairobi, Kenya. August, 2015

1. Rethinking Policy in Kenya
By
Christine Mwangi
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3. Discussion
• What in your opinion are Kenya’s policy
priorities?
• How can Kenya’s policy environment facilitate
the implementation of these policies?
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6. Example
• CRS is a public policy research arm of the United
States Congress. As a legislative branch agency
within the Library of Congress, CRS works primarily
and directly for Members of Congress, their
Committees and staff on a confidential, nonpartisan
basis. Its staff of approximately 600 employees
includes lawyers, economists, reference librarians,
and social, natural, and physical scientists.[3] In fiscal
year 2012, CRS was appropriated a budget of
roughly $106.8 million by Congress.[4]
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7. • CRS is joined by two major congressional support
agencies. The Congressional Budget Office provides
Congress with budget-related information, reports
on fiscal, budgetary, and programmatic issues, and
analyses of budget policy options, costs, and
effects. The Government Accountability Office
assists Congress in reviewing and monitoring the
activities of government by conducting
independent audits, investigations, and evaluations
of federal programs. Collectively, the three agencies
employ more than 4,000 people.[
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8. Example Cont..
its responsibility is to ensure that Members of
the House and Senate have available the best
possible information and analysis on which to
base the policy decisions the American people
have elected them to make.[3] In all its work, CRS
analysts are governed by requirements for
confidentiality, timeliness, accuracy, objectivity,
balance, and nonpartisanship.
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9. Discussion
• Do we need to think differently?
• And if we do what do we need to change?
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10. Apathy?Indifference?
“The price good men pay for indifference to
public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to
be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic
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