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Study offers insight on slum upgrading programme in Kenya
A new study that provides ground-breaking insights into the concept of slum upgrading in Kenya has been published by a team of researchers in the School of Architecture and Building Sciences (SABS) at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT).
The study by the JKUAT research team led by the Principal Investigator, Dr. Susan Njeri Kibue and her colleagues – Josephine Wacera Muchogu, Janet Kemuma Ondieki, Carolyne Wanza Nthiwa and Brenda Maiba Bhoyyo, explores the process of slum upgrading programme, focusing on two types of delivery methodologies: the informal community-led process and the formal government-driven slum upgrading process.
The research findings published in form of a book titled: Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Slum Upgrading Projects: A Case of Kambi Moto Huruma and Kibera Decanting Site in Nairobi, comes in the backdrop of the Government’s affordable housing initiative as one of the pillars underpinning the “Big Four” development agenda.
The 125 – page book structured in six chapters, investigates among other issues: user attitudes and satisfaction, building technology, physical structure, materials, construction methods, delivery methods and attendant costs as well as informal and formal institutional structures. The analysis of comparative case studies further provide useful data on the performance and transfer of new construction technologies used in the informal settlement upgrading. According to the researchers who are practicing architects, the Huruma settlement involved a combination of physical and institutional components, including acquisition of secure land tenure for residents and subsequent provision of adequate housing and basic services for individual households, built and financed by the very households
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