Background:
The present
constitutional order in Kenya has rejuvenated urban inequality concerns having
raised communities’ expectations through the promise of reversal. Informal
settlements, while home to majority urban citizens, exhibit exclusion in an
increasing order as urbanization grows accentuating social dysfunction and
stretching the resilience of these communities. In the wake of this, devolution
in Kenya has brought with it a new wave of urban integrated development
planning that offers an opportunity for more appropriate recognition and
integration of the informal settlementsin the development planning. Practice
has however revealed that the existing conventional planning approaches inhibit
the desired integration of informal settlement planning into the urban plans.
It is against this background that a government partnership with civil society organizations
in Kenya has been working with an “Adaptive Settlement Planning Model – ASPM”
to navigate the conventional planning barriers and promoteadaptability of informal
settlements as special planning zones. This event will serve to share lessons
and experiences from this process.
Relevance to the GC26 theme:
The event is aligned to
sub-theme 3 on ‘integrated human settlements planning for sustainable
urbanization’. The emphasis in this context is on empowering poor and
vulnerable urban citizens with an appropriate tool for negotiating their
inclusion in the urban integrated development plans. The event is organized
under the auspices of the Kenya Civil Society Habitat III Caucus in partnership
with Directorate of Physical Planning and coordinated by Civil Society Urban
Development Platform.
Objective(s):
Share lessons and experiences from the Adaptive Settlement
Planning Model as a community tool for inclusive settlement planning in Kenyan
Urban areas
Name of contact person:
George
Wasonga
Contact person’s Email address: