Enabling a Community-Led Process? Pamoja Trust's Approach to Slum-Upgrading in Nairobi

The objective of the workshop was to document and critically assesses the community-led participatory approach to slum upgrading taken by Pamoja Trust, a non-governmental organization founded in Kenya to promote access to land, shelter and services for urban poor communities. Pamoja Trust believes that their approach will address the key obstacles that had attempts of upgrading informal settlements in the past. In their view, the most important gap in other approaches of upgrading in Nairobi so far has been the absence of the voice of the people in decision-making. The report has two major objectives: 1) assist Pamoja Trust in developing its institutional memory by documenting their methodology, and 2) conduct an independent impact assessment of Pamoja Trust’s work in Huruma informal settlement in Nairobi where this slum upgrading process is most advanced.