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Kenya Kwanza agenda lacks public buy-in

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President William Ruto interacts with construction workers during the inspection of the Ol Kalau NHC Housing Project. [PCS]

When the history of Kenya Kwanza is written, at least one chapter should be devoted to the subject of change management. This chapter would not spend much time on the quality (or not) of the vision or strategy or the cleverness (or not) of implementation. Or even our "all hands on deck" approach to debt management. It would instead focus on the much harder questions of public buy-in, popular ownership and the rest of the softer side of reform.

Change management is an entire subject discipline of its own. But let's start with some context.

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