CSUDP

Traditional planning regimes have presented slums and informal settlements areas as ‘blocks’ with no specific identity despite the masses that reside in these areas, essentially rendering these settlements ‘invisible’ in the conventional urban plans. This may not be the case anymore, courtesy of the Adaptive Settlement Planning Model (ASPM) developed through a partnership between the Civil Society Urban Development Platform (CSUDP) and Pamoja Trust.

“Every time I heard a boom, even if it was the sound of a cracker, I sat up at night and could not sleep anymore. I feared it was a stove blast”, says Sarah Musau a mother of three (3) children aged 19, 13 and 9 years respectively. For 15 years, Sarah and her family lived beside Kenya railway tracks that passes through Kibera informal settlement. During this period, three fire incidents gutted down her home leaving her and her children with nothing except the clothes they were in at the time.

Youth transformation - Harnessing talent inherent amongst the youth to redirect the energies for social and economic gains.