Economy in the Nairobi Slums and Informal Settlement

This page offers you articles and studies on the economy in the Nairobi slums and Informal settlements and issues related to it.

• Divided City. Information Poverty in Nairobi Slums by Rasna Warah
• Summary of Divided City - Information Poverty in Nairobi Slums by Rasna Warah
• Analysis of Gender Roles in Resource Recovery for Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Nairobi by Njenga M., Gathuru K. and Karanja N.
• Where the sidewalks end. How the poor combat poverty daily. By Molly O’Meara Sheehan
• Making a living from garbage
• Maji Mazuri Center - "Good Water..."
• The nature of employment in Nairobi Slums: why it is a precondition for poor health and livelihood outcomes by Frederick Mugisha
• Policy prospects for Urban and Periurban Agriculture in Kenya
• Rent crisis in Nairobi Slums
• Communication for Sustainable Urban Livelihoods (CSUL) by Elizabeth Riley and Patrick Wakely
• Big variation in the levels of poverty - Story by MURIITHI MURIUKI - The Nation
• Kenya slum turns sun into energy By Celeste Hicks - BBC News
• SIDAREC Community Media and ICT program
• Kibers Socio-Economic Mapping Exercises - Business Survey Questionnaire - The GoK / UN-HABITAT
• The Kenya Slums Upgrading Project: A Summary of the Business Survey Data by Courtney Crosson
• Big variation in the levels of poverty by Murithi Muriuke - Daily Nation on the Web
• Analysis of Gender Roles in Resource Recovery for Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Nairobi by Njenga M, Gathuru K. and Karanja N.
• Comfortable Kenyan Footwear Made of... Used Tires! by Wanzala Bahati Justus
• Development: From Slums to sustainability by Jare Ajayi
• ILO - Kenya: Employers' organizations taking the lead on linking the informal sector to formal Kenyan enterprises
• Assessment of the Jua Kali Pilot Voucher Program by Arvil V. Adams
• Jua Kali as a metaphor for Africa's Urban ethnicities and cultures - Mary Kingsley Zochonis Lecture
• Jua Kali Ketal Works
• ITDG, the Kayole Jua Kali Association and UN-HABITAT
• Education: Lifeskills and small loans by Susan Nkinyangi, UNESCO, Nairobi
• Self-Improvement for the Slums - The Carcinal Collective
• The nature of employment in Nairobi Slums: why it is a precondition for poor health and livelihood outcomes by frederick Mugisha
• Towards Meeting Local Training requirements of Jua Kali Artisans in Kenya: Some Lessons of Experience by John N. Maundu

• Private sector development: A small-business model by Rose Kananu - Ministry of Trade & Industry
• Development bank encourages antipoverty investment by Patricia Lefevere - National Catholic Reporter
• Light and Power in Kawangware, Nairobi
• Kenya: Macro Economic Evolution since Independence by Arianna Legovini
• Communication for Sustainable Urban Livelihoods (CSUL) by Elizabeth riley and Patrick Wakely
• "Yes, but..." Attitudes towards the Informal Sector by Hari Srinivas
• Kenya Community Alliance (KARA) gets UNV Gran to Promote MDGs
• Enterprising urban development - enterprise Impact News
• Directory: Jua Kali Micro Wind Turbines from PESWiki
• Self-Help Groups and Income Generation in the informal Settlements of Nairobi by Eliana La Ferrara
• Tackling poverty in Nairobi's informal settlements: developing and institutional strategy by Graham Alder