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What’s Cooking? Adding critical feminist research to the pot
This paper was produced as part of the programme Urban Food Futures. Urban Food Futures is a transdisciplinary action-research programme conducted in cooperation with TMG and its partners in local governments, academia, and civil society.
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Integrating food sensitive planning and urban design into urban governance actions
This report focuses on the different approaches to and positions on urban food governance. It explores scales of governance and concepts of urban food systems and questions their applicability and how other processes impact on them.
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Social Housing
In collaboration with various partners, the County Government subsequently embarked on the implementation of five key components of the plan
Gaudensia Isalamba: The floods wreaked havoc on my family
Like many other inhabitants of informal urban settlements, Gaudensia Isalamba and her family were heavily affected by the unprecedented heavy rainfall and flooding that shook most of Kenya in April and May 2024.
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Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands: A People’s Political Manifesto
In preparation for the general election held on August 9, 2022, the Mukuru community, with support from AMT and Ruben Centre, crafted “The Mukuru People’s Manifesto” to advocate for their interests in the electoral process. This manifesto served as a unifying platform for residents to collectively address the challenges they were facing.
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Trading to Eat: Empowering informal food vendors in Nairobi
The primary aim of this project is to strengthen the organizational capacities of informal food vendors so they can advocate for improved food policies and services.
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A Circular Economy Model for Managing Solid Waste in Mukuru
The Black Soldier Fly (BSF) farming initiative aims to capitalize on rising costs of agricultural inputs, particularly protein sources such as soya beans and fish, which not only results in prohibitive prices, but the proliferation of sub-standard feeds on the market. Black soldier fly farming provides a win-win solution by providing a way to tackle piles of solid waste
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School Feeding as an Entry Point for Building Inclusive Societies
The Mukuru informal settlement in Nairobi has a young and vibrant population with approximately 95,000 school-going children. However, the area faces an educational deficit with just seven public schools and 150 non-formal schools serving the entire community.
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Towards safe, healthy and green urban spaces in Nairobi: An integrated urban planning pilot
The saying that the poor pay the highest cost for basic services is evident in Mukuru: one of the largest informal settlements in Nairobi. With more than 100,000 households crammed in an area measuring approximately 690 acres