Many scholars opine that slum upgrading is widely recognized as the most proactive and effective way of improving housing conditions and lives of millions of low-income households living in slums in African cities and towns.
This initiative, they argue, is a sure way of contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 11: ensuring access for all urban households to adequate, safe, and affordable housing and basic services, as well as upgrading slums, by 2030.
This is why, the Second Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project (KISIP2), represents a bold step toward addressing the systemic challenges faced by over 1.7 million residents in Kenya's urban informal settlements. Building on the lessons of its predecessor, KISIP2 integrates tenure regularization, infrastructure upgrades, and socio-economic inclusion to uplift living conditions in over 200 informal settlements across the participating counties.
This initiative is a critical intervention in a nation where rapid urbanization has outpaced infrastructure development, leaving huge percentage of populations in slums with inadequate services.
KISIP2's focus on land tenure security is a game-changer. By formalizing titles through planning, surveying, and issuing
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