“My contribution offended them”: Inclusion and exclusion in Kenya’s Participatory Budgeting

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The new Kenyan constitution introduced in 2010 required the 47 newly created county governments – each with its own directly elected governors, senators, and members of the county assembly – to practice participatory budgeting. This was intended to strengthen the voice of citizens, especially those historically marginalised, in the policy process. In this piece, Kibui Edwin Rwigi asks whether this new constitutional stipulation is working as intended.