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Institutions and Civil Society Relations in Migori County (Kenya): A Social Network Analysis of Weak and Strong Ties

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  • Teodora Erika Uberti
  • Francesco Salsano

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The goal of this paper is to investigate policy networks in Migori, a small county in the Western part of Kenya, near the border with Tanzania and Victoria Lake. In this study we build a unique network database and we use Social Network Analysis techniques to detect the structural relations among different stakeholders (e.g. institutions and civil society actors) within this county and we focus on different topics (i.e. overall interactions, training and cooperation, and for specific decision making on health and nutrition, and agricultural issues). The main results show the importance to distinguish, in policy networks, the rationale of interactions and their intensity, i.e. weak or strong ties. Institutions and civil society organizations are differently connected according to the functions and intensity of networks in which they operate. For example, for health and nutrition the Ministry is the core actor; the opposite occurs in agriculture, where local communities are the core players; and finally in training and coordination we have an intermediate layout, if compared to the two previous ones.

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  • Teodora Erika Uberti & Francesco Salsano, 2021. "Institutions and Civil Society Relations in Migori County (Kenya): A Social Network Analysis of Weak and Strong Ties," International Journal of Business and Management, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 15(11), pages 1-1, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:ijbmjn:v:15:y:2021:i:11:p:1
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