Managing Human Waste in Informal Settlements: Bio-centres in Kibera Informal Settlement, Kenya

Family Kinship Patterns and Female Sex Work in the Informal Urban Settlement of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya.

A basic ecological and epidemiological question is why some women enter into commercial sex work while other women in the same socio-economic environment never do. To address this question respondent driven sampling principles were adopted to recruit and collect data for 161 female sex workers and 159 same aged women who never engaged in commercial sex in Kibera, a large informal settlement in ...

Informal Settlements Upgrading: The Gecekondus in Ankara

Participatory Informal Settlement Upgrading and Well-Being in Kisumu, Kenya

resilience in informal settlements

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Object-Based Image Analysis of VHR Satellite Imagery for Population Estimation in Informal Settlement Kibera-Nairobi, Kenya

Kibera (edge region within the Nairobi) is the biggest informal settlement in Kenya, and one of the biggest in Africa. The population estimates vary between 170,000 and 1 million and are highly debatable. What is certain is that the area is large (roughly 2.5 km2), host at least hundreds of thousands people, is informal and self-organized, stricken by poverty, disease, population increase, envi...