About the KIPPRA Public Policy Repository (PPR)
The Institute has developed an open-source public policy repository (PPR) in recognition of its commitment to develop and maintain a reservoir of knowledge on public policy;
Launched on 12th March 2021;
The repository is accessible through: http://repository.kippra.or.ke
Goal of the PPR: To strengthen the research-to-policy linkage by availing to both internal and external customers, a one-stop-shop for National and County government policy documents and KIPPRA publications.
Collections in the KIPPRA PPR
The three collections in the Repository and current collections:
Collection 1: 895 National Government Policy Documents. The following are the communities in this collection.
- Legislative Circulars
- Presidential Speeches
- Blueprints
- Budget Speeches
- Development Plans
- Policy Papers
- Presidential Reports
- Sectoral Plans
- Sessional Papers
- Strategy Papers
- The Constitutions of Kenya
Collection 2: 1975 County Government Policy Documents comprising of the following communities in the collection.
- Annual Development Plans
- Approved Budget Estimates
- County Budget Review & Outlook Papers
- County Fiscal Strategy Papers
- County Integrated Development Plans
- County Vision
- District Development Plans
- Investment Plans
- Policy Papers
- Sectoral Plans
- Spatial Plans
- Strategy Papers
Collection 3: 895 KIPPRA Publications and they comprise the following communities;
- Discussion Papers
- Acts and Bills
- Books / Book Chapters
- Conference Journal Articles
- Kenya Economic Reports
- KIPPRA Policy Monitor / Newsletters
- Multimedia [Video/Audio]
- NIPFN
- Occasional Papers
- Publications on Policy Surveillance
- Policy Briefs
- Policy Papers
- Publicity Materials
- Special Papers
- Working Papers
To navigate your way to the repository, follow the following instructions
KIPPRA public policy user access guide
KIPPRA Public Policy Repository (PPR) provides its stakeholders with a One-Stop Shop for National and County Government policy documents. The repository's goal is to strengthen the research-to-policy linkage by offering both internal and external customers an open-access platform for all national policies organized by sector for ease of retrieval.
The Repository is organized hierarchically. The top level is Communities, followed by Subcommunities, and then Collections. Each Collection may contain an unlimited number of items.
BROWSE and DISCOVER
Browse and Discover allows you to view a list of items in some specified order:
- • Communities/Collections takes you through the Communities in alphabetical order and allows you to see the Sub- Communities and Collections within each Community.
- • Title allows you to browse an alphabetical list of all titles of items.
- • Author allows you to browse an alphabetical list of all authors of items.
- • Issue Date allows you to browse a list of all items in reverse chronological order.
- • Subject allows you to browse an alphabetical list of subjects assigned to items.
- • Item type allows you to browse by the genre of the content.
On how to search
To search all of KIPPRA PPR, use the search box in the navigation bar at the top of the page. As you navigate through Communities or Collections, the search offers you the option to search all of the Digital Repository or just the Community or Collection where you are. Here are some search hints:
What is searched in the general keyword search
The word(s) you enter in the search box will be searched against the full text of all items that support it (image-based items, including some PDFs based on page images, may not have text embedded within them) along with the title, author, subject abstract, series, sponsor and identifier fields of each item's record.
Search results
The search engine currently returns search results in "ranked by relevance" order.
What is not searched - Stop Words
The search engine ignores certain words that occur frequently in English but do not add value to the search. These are:
"a", "and" , "are" , "as" , "at" , "be" , "but" , "by" , "for" , "if" , "in" , "into", "is" ,"it" ,"no" , "not" , "of" , "on" , "or" , "such", "the" , "to" , "was"
Truncation
Use an asterisk (*) after a word stem to get all hits having words starting with that root, for example:
select* will retrieve selects, selector, selectman, selecting.
Stemming
The search engine automatically expands words with common endings to include plurals, past tenses, etc
Phrase Searching
To search using multiple words as a phrase, put quotation marks (") around the phrase.
"Organizational change"
SUBSCRIBING TO EMAIL ALERTS
Users can subscribe to receive daily e-mail alerts of new items added to the Digital Repository. You may subscribe to as many collections as they wish. To subscribe:
- • Go to the KIPPRA PPR registration page by clicking on the "Login" link at the top of the home page
- • Enter your email and password fill (Type your password exactly as you entered it originally. It is case sensitive. Be sure to click on the "log in" button to continue.)
- • Navigate to a collection for which you would like to receive e-mail alerts, and click on the "subscribe" button (repeat for other collections)
- •To edit your subscriptions, go to the "Subscribe" page.
