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Politics and Slum Upgrading in Kenya
Why was the slum upgrading project in Kibera, Kenya, facing resistance? This study uses both qualitative and quantitative methods in data collection to reveal that politics revolving around the interests of local politicians, slum dwellers and business operators as well as external players such as NGOs hamper successful implementation of the slum upgrading project Kenya Slum Upgrading Program in Kibera. The key obstacles include poverty, corruption, tribalism, political interpretation of the project aims, bureaucracy, slum oriented businesses (kadogo economy) as well as NGO activity and youth unemployment.
Community Perception of Slum Upgrading Initiatives in Soweto East, Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya)
"As urbanization and urban poverty increases in countries of the global south, so too do informal, unregulated, poorly serviced settlements (more commonly referred to as "slums"). Scholarly literature shows an array of views on the roles and challenges of these communities. In Nairobi, Kenya, 60 percent of the population live in "slums", and this number is expected to rise to 3 million people by 2020. In 2003, the Government of Kenya (GoK), in association with the United Nations Human Settlement Program (UN-Habitat), embarked on an ambitious and controversial "slum upgrading" initiative called the Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme (KENSUP). Seeking to avoid previous failures, this programme inc...
Building Urban Safety Through Slum Upgrading
"Excluded from the city's opportunities, physically, politically and economically marginalized, slum dwellers are particularly vulnerable to crime and violence. They face an acute risk of becoming victims or offenders and live in a state of constant insecurity. Only a few cities have incorporated a coherent component to prevent crime and mitigate violence in their urban development agendas. Impact on urban safety has occurred somewhat unexpectedly. That is the main lesson to be drawn from the pages of this book: urban policy integration."--pub. desc.
