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County Finance and Devolution

Devolution is taught almost everywhere as administration. We teach it as a standing contest over money, won or lost in the drafting of a single clause, and we do it on the constitutional text rather than on generalities.

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Programme overview

Devolution is taught almost everywhere as administration. We teach it as a standing contest over money, won or lost in the drafting of a single clause, and we do it on the constitutional text rather than on generalities.

This specialised subject can be taken as a one-day working lab, three-day workshop, two-week specialised training, or curated institutional programme within published open windows.

Who should attend

County executives and treasuries, members of county assemblies, revenue allocation and intergovernmental bodies, county drafters and auditors.

Programme modules

Module spine

  1. 01

    Contesting the division of revenue: the criteria, the recurring disputes and the arguments that succeed

  2. 02

    Re-engineering the horizontal formula: parameters, weighting and the distributional consequences you can model

  3. 03

    Own-source revenue that survives challenge: the constitutional limits and the drafting they demand

  4. 04

    Property rates and land value capture: valuation rolls, buoyancy and the revenue counties never collect

  5. 05

    Subnational borrowing and the liabilities concealed in leases, pensions and pending bills

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