Kenya Impact Story

With more than a half of the urban population living in informal settlements and slums (around 56%) and an urban growth rate of 4.34%

,the capacity and commitment of Kenya’s 2010 Constitution to address the country’s affordable housing and slum challenge is brought into focus. This impact story explores the frameworks and platforms that Kenya has in place to undertake city-wide slum upgrading and how UN-Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) has helped Kenya’s progress towards a citywide upgrading and prevention approach.