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Reconsidering Sites and Services as an Approach to meeting Urban Development and Housing Needs in Rapidly Growing Urban Areas

June 16, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

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This presentation is a continuation of the Urban & Water Thematic Group’s “Talk Shop” series.

Synopsis: With African cities urbanizing rapidly, there is a growing appreciation that it is time to take a fresh look at the potential for ‘sites and services’ approaches to meet urban development and housing needs in these rapidly growing urban areas. The session will present guiding principles on designing sites and services projects for TTLs/operations teams that emerge from a study conducted by the Urban Poverty, Inclusive Cities and Housing Global Solutions Group (GSG). The study has provided a clear understanding of the large scale 1st generation sites and services of the 60s and 70s by assessing their structure and guiding principles, establishing their effectiveness in meeting the set objectives, examining reasons most governments and donors abandoned the intervention, identifying factors that contributed to their success or failure in countries where they were adopted, identifying how building technologies, land and housing markets have changed over time in support of or against sites and services, and draws lessons and potential guiding principles for possible future projects.

Speaker’s Bios:

  • Judy Baker is a Global Lead, Urban Poverty and Housing, and a Lead Economist in the Global Practice for Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience in the Africa Region. She has worked extensively across the World Bank on projects and analytical work, particularly in East Asia, Latin America, and South Asia. This work has covered topics related to urbanization and its impacts, urban poverty, slum upgrading, service delivery, affordable housing, climate change, and impact evaluation. She has published six books, as well as produced numerous country and regional reports.
  • Sheila Kamunyori is a Senior Urban Specialist based in Nairobi with over 15 years’ experience in urban development. At the Bank, she leads the Bank support in Kenya on slum upgrading, affordable housing and land, and is the TTL of the Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project (KISIP). She also supports informal settlement upgrading and affordable housing in South Africa and Rwanda. Prior to the Bank, Sheila worked in international development across multiple sectors, including ICT, health, education and local economic development, and across a number of countries in Africa and Asia-Pacific. Sheila, a Kenyan national, holds a Master’s degree in International Development and Urban Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a PhD in Urban Planning from the London School of Economics.
  • Keziah Mwanga is an urban development specialist with over seven years global work experience in development and applied research. An Urban Development Consultant at the World Bank, she supports projects on slum upgrading, affordable housing, land and urban development. She is also a Lecturer at Kenyatta University in Kenya, teaching urban and regional planning. Previously, she has worked both in Kenya and USA with governments, non-profit organizations, universities and research institutions working to promote equitable development. Keziah holds a PhD in Urban Studies jointly awarded by the Gran Sasso Science Institute and Sant’Anna Scuola Universitaria Superiore in Italy and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from the University of California Berkeley, USA.

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Date:
June 16, 2022
Time:
11:00 am - 12:30 pm

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The 1818 Society Urban and Water Thematic Group