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Factors Influencing the Implementation of Kenya Slums Upgrading Programme: a Case of Kibera Slums in Nairobi County by Edwine Ochieng^
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Ochieng, Edwine Ochieng, Glen Opiyo, Elisha |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | There is growing global concern about slums, as manifested in the recent United Nations Millennium Declaration and subsequent identification of new development priorities by the international community. In light o f the increasing numbers of urban slum dwellers, governments have recently adopted a specific target on slums, i.e. Millennium Development Goal 7, Target 11, which aims to significantly improve the lives o f at least 100 million slum dwellers by the year 2020. This study investigated factors influencing implementation of the slums upgrading programmes with specific reference to the Kenya slums upgrading programme in Kibera slums. The Kenyan government’s conceptualization of slum upgrading inserts benefits into a highly distorted market, preventing a balanced realization o f the internationally recognized elements of the right to housing, and raising fears of displacement among slum residents. The study established factors influencing slums upgrading programmes along the following objectives; The influence of urbanization towards implementation of the Kibera slums upgrading programme; the influence o f environmental factors on the Kibera slums upgrading programme ; the influence of cost o f slums upgrading programmes on the Kibera slums upgrading programme; the influence o f community participation in the Kibera slums upgrading programme; the extent to which security of land tenure contributes to the implementation of Kibera slums upgrading programme the findings of in this report indicate that there is high rural urban migration and over population in slum areas leading to overcrowding of houses. This spill over has been experienced in the new project where houses meant for one family is shared by more than three households while others are occupied by tenants from upmarket estates. Slum culture and social spatial economic factors complicate slums upgrading programmes and raise the costs o f upgrading. Majority of slum dwellers are petty traders and rely on small business enterprises to raise income. The slum upgrading programme as conceptualised does not recognise the need to alongside create markets and business centres. This has led to slum dwellers making makeshift structures to accommodate their trades distorting the upgrading process. Community participation in the slums upgrading programmes is low despite the immense benefits the majority of the slums dwellers attribute to the programme. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/11295/4166/EDWINE_OCHIENG_M.A_PPM_2011.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
