KENYA
On this page you can find AHI activities/ projects, AHI weblogs/blog posts, and resources.
Activities - Blogs - Resources
2005, Nairobi, Kenya
Slum Upgrading Plan
Activities: program design
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 (PDF).
Blog Posts (from newer to older)
The first thing that flees is capital
Let that be your last battlefield
Kenya: Always the poor suffer first
Kibera's moment, Kenya's moment
Central Bank of Kenya
Includes a weekly bulletin describing financial conditions
Ministry of Housing
Core functions include the National Housing Corporation (NHC) and the Housing Finance Company of Kenya (HFCK).
The Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme (KENSUP)
a key core poverty Programme aimed at addressing the challenge of housing problems affecting the majority of the urban population who live in slums and informal settlements.
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