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Know Your City is a global campaign of Slum Dwellers International (SDI), United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG-A), and Cities Alliance. Around the world, slum dwellers collect city-wide data and information on informal settlements. This work creates alternative systems of knowledge that are owned by the communities and have become the basis of a unique social and political argument that supports an informed and united voice of the urban poor. SDI’s databases are becoming the largest repositories of informal settlement data in the world and the first port of call for researchers, policy makers, local governments and national governments.

Kenya View Country Profile

Settlement

Wayani

Established: 1999

The settlement was started in 1999

Kenya

Makueni

Settlement

WESINYA

Established: 1999

THE PERSON WHO STARTED THIS SETTLEMENT WAS CALLED ANANGWE WHO UNITED THE TWO TRIBES LUO AND LUHYA WHERE…

Kenya

Nairobi

Settlement

WESTERN A

Established: 1972

It started because of the workers who were working for the EA railways who came to settle here

Kenya

Kisumu

Settlement

Western B

Established: 1945

This settlement was established by the year 1945 by people who moved from Maseno county with their employer…

Kenya

Kisumu

Settlement

WESTERN SETTLEMENT

Established: 1945

Kenya

Kisumu

Settlement

WILSON PLOT TEN

Established: 1905

THE FIRST LADY TO SETTLE THER WAS MILICIA WANJIRU FROM MAJENGO KAMUKUNJI.THE AREA WAS A BUSHY PLACE AND…

Kenya

Nairobi

Settlement

Yikiatine

Established: 2006

Land was given by the govt for makingulu and game reserve

Kenya

Makueni

Settlement

Yimbuni village

Established: 2009

The people in the settlement were evicted from mikululo/kyulu hills and they were allocated in kiboko B settlement…

Kenya

Makueni

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