
Patrick NjorogeMuungano Akiba Mashinani Trust · Programs
Patrick Njoroge
Bachelor of Science in Communications and Public Relations
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Urban informal settlements or slums are among the most vulnerable places to climate-change-related health risks. Yet, little data exist documenting environmental and human health vulnerabilities in slums or how to move research to action. Citizen science, where residents co-define research objectives with professionals, collect and analyze data, an...
Current governance processes in urban systems and food systems in Africa are ill-equipped to engage the dual challenge of rapid urbanisation and adverse urban food system outcomes. This entry-point proposes food sensitive planning and urban design (FSPUD) as a process of co-learning, co-governing & co-developing sites of urban food governance actio...
Previous research and scoping work of the team uncovered women to be at the forefront of unpaid care work developing community kitchens as spaces of solidarity and agency amid the detrimental socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 containment measures. This work reflects how community kitchens could open spaces for re-imagining unjust food systems and...
To identify vulnerabilities and leverage points to co-design for sustainable diets, jobs, and resilience this work started by tracing how food flows through informal settlements in Cape Town and Nairobi and by documenting societal responses to shocks such as COVID-19.
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to debates on inclusive informal settlement upgrading through scaling participatory planning, with a focus on the Mukuru Special Planning Area (SPA) in Nairobi, Kenya. Our contribution is threefold. First, we provide an overview of previous efforts at integrating participation into urban interventions that...
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to debates on inclusive informal settlement upgrading through scaling participatory planning, with a focus on the Mukuru Special Planning Area (SPA) in Nairobi, Kenya. Our contribution is three-fold. First, we provide an overview of previous efforts at integrating participation into urban interventions tha...
Mukuru is one of Nairobi’s largest informal settlements, home to approximately 300,000 residents who face a range of risks linked to poor quality shelter and the area’s hazardous location. In 2017, after years of advocacy and action-research by civil society groups, Nairobi’s County Government declared Mukuru a Special Planning Area (SPA) to enable...
We used a citizen science approach to explore personal exposure to air pollution of selected informal settlement dwellers in Nairobi, Kenya. This paper presents the methods used, with the aim of informing others who wish to conduct similar work in the future, and some results, including policy impact. We used three interlinked methods: 1) a persona...
Air pollution is a major environmental and health challenge globally. The primary
pollutant of concern for human health is fine particulate matter (PM). It is estimated that
PM pollution is associated with 670,000 premature deaths annually in Africa, divided
roughly equally between indoor and outdoor exposures (Forouzanfar et al., 2015).
Scientific...
This paper describes the funding and financial services provided by the Akiba Mashinani Trust (AMT) to support the Kenyan Homeless People’s Federation (Muungano wa Wanavijiji). Muungano is a federation of autonomous savings groups with over 60,000 members from informal settlements across Kenya. Savings are critical because they enable wealth accumu...