Africa - 1
Countries
AHI has carried out projects in, has blogs and/or resources on the countries below.
Egypt
Activities
2005, September, Cairo
Egypt Financial Service project, USAID
Activities: Program evaluation and review, program design, presentation
As a subcontractor to Chemonics on a USAID-financed Egypt Financial Services project (EFS), David Smith made two week-long trips to Cairo, the first (July, 2005) to interview stakeholders in housing finance, the second to present a strategic plan for the Egyptian Guarantee and Subsidy Fund (GSF), a parastatal established by the Egyptian government in 2001. Housing finance is a critical need in Egypt, with its vast and rapidly increasing urban population. Solving blockages that exist in title registration, delivery of long-term mortgage instruments, and closing the affordability gap for low and moderate-income Egyptians are national priorities that the EFS project is tackling. The GSF can and should play a major role in facilitating the growth of affordable housing in Egypt. Its board is now considering AHI's and EFS's recommendations. Details at Egypt/GSF and Egypt Production.
Resources
Housing the World’s poor
The article addresses the growing problem of urban slums, tracking examples from around the world. Slums are a reflection not of market failure but of societal failure, and the article details what governments can and should be doing about them. Article by David A. Smith appears in Harvard International Review
Egyptian Mortgage Refinance Company
Kenya
Activities
2005, Nairobi, Kenya
At the successful 2005 Bellagio Housing Conference (sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies), participants facilitated by AHI brainstormed a financing and ownership plan for upgrading Kenya's slums. At the conference's completion, the Kenya Ministry of Lands and Housing invited AHI to Nairobi to develop a financing and ownership plan for slum upgrading in Kenya, using Kibera as an example. Details here.Resources
Central Bank of Kenya
Includes a weekly bulletin describing financial conditions.
Housing the World’s poor
The article addresses the growing problem of urban slums, tracking examples from around the world. Slums are a reflection not of market failure but of societal failure, and the article details what governments can and should be doing about them. Article by David A. Smith appears in Harvard International Review.
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