International Journal of Education and Social Science (IJESS)

The management of Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) in Kenya has been under different organizations which included local authorities, non-governmental organizations, private sector and the national government until 2013 when the county governments took over management of public ECDE. The specific objective of this study was to determine the level of investment in infrastructure in public ECDE schools in Kisumu, Homa Bay, Migori and Siaya Counties since 2013. The researchers adopted Hawe’s and Stephen’s (1990) Theory of Goals, Context and Agency. Census method was used to select 39 officials in the four counties. Open ended questionnaires were used to collect data. Findings revealed that the counties did not have properly kept ECDE records. The records available indicated that after 2013 there was growth in enrolment and exponential increase in funding to ECDE activities. Expenditure on ECDE was as low as Kshs 90.00 per learner in some counties prior to 2013 while allocation for each ECDE learner was between Kshs 2,053.00 and Kshs 6,102.00 in 2016. Before 2013, class size was between 52 and 64 while in 2016, it was between 33 and 101 learners.