In 2017, the African Union (AU) decided to expand the mandate of the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) to include monitoring and reporting on all key aspects of governance, including tracking the implementation of the African Union Agenda 2063, and of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Consequently, APRM developed the inaugural continental governance report, Africa Governance Report 2019 – hereafter, AGR 2019, launched in February 2019. APRM then encouraged individual member states to produce their own national governance reports (NGR), whose findings would be aggregated into a continental report. This Kenyan NGR is among the first of such individual country reports.