Empowering the Urban Poor to Realize the Right to Housing: Community-Led Slum Upgrading in Huruma, Nairobi

Empowering the Urban Poor to Realize the Right to Housing: Community-Led Slum Upgrading in Huruma, Nairobi

[SHS:SCIPO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science

Right to Housing

Slum Upgrading

participatory approach

Nairobi

This article seeks to examine community-led upgrading initiatives, with particular emphasis on lessons learnt from the collaboration between Pamoja Trust, Muungano wa Wanavijiji (MWW) and the City Council of Nairobi (CCN) in Huruma, Nairobi. The article shall highlight processes that have facilitated relative success of participatory approaches in Huruma's six villages, including the crucial role played by multi-sector partnerships and the role of citizens in realizing the right to housing. It shall give measures aimed at keeping the overall project costs significantly low as well as presenting potential areas for scaling up such initiatives in other settlements.

Ettyang', Kamukam

Les cahiers d'Afrique de l'est

2011-09-01

ENG

article in non peer-reviewed journal

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00755879

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/75/58/79/PDF/Kamukam_Ettyang_-_HURUMA_EMPOWERMENT_UPGRADING.pdf