KNeCS Strategy Modelling Report
KNeCS Strategy Modelling Report_Draft 5 This document details the modelling approaches and findings used to inform the interventions within the eCooking Strategy. It utilises data collected during the KNeCS Baseline...
Read MoreScaling digital hubs across informal settlements in Kenya: Social surveys and Co-creation.
Policy Paper_ Scaling Digital Hubs Across Informal Settlements in Kenya By Bosibori Barake, Stephen Nyagaya & Diana Mwau. This policy paper offers a step-by-step approach to co-create digital hubs in...
Read MoreDigital Hubs Proposal to ICTA
By Bosibori Barake, Alice Menya, Samuel Kiriro, Stephen Nyagaya This proposal provides a comprehensive description of the form and design that digital hubs should adopt in Mathare informal settlement. The...
Read MoreCo-creation Workshop Report
By Samuel Kiriro, Bosibori Barake, Stephen Nyagaya, Diana Mwau The activities reported in this report summarizes the discussions from the digital hub co-creation workshop held on 27th March 2024 at...
Read MoreCity-wide Co-creation Workshop Report
By Bosibori Barake, Alice Menya, Stephen Nyagaya, Diana Mwau The Digital Hubs co-creation workshop was conducted on 18th June 2024 at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Westlands, Nairobi. It was...
Read MoreExperiencing the Evictions: A First-Hand Account of Displacement in Mathare
By Nora Yunes Elafifi My journey to Nairobi began in the aftermath of the devastating floods that swept through Nairobi’s Mathare area. The death toll had risen to 15, and a relentless search for missing...
Read MoreUnderstanding Knowledge, Perceptions and Beliefs of eCooking
By Dr Abigael Okoko Globally, there are calls and efforts to achieve sustainability in all sectors. Energy has not been left behind either in these efforts. Energy, a key pillar for development, contributes immensely to the...
Read MoreUnearthing the digital divide among the urban poor in Kenya’s informal settlements
By Harrison Kioko and Beatrice Hati This document draws attention to a digital divide among the urban poor as traced in an exploratory study on digital platforms and household resilience conducted in Mathare, the 3rd...
Read MoreReaching the Hard-to-Reach Areas: A Case of Electrification of Remote Areas in Kenya
By Abigael Okoko Off-grid rural communities in Kenya experience a multitude of challenges; one of them being lack of access to electricity which limits the productive capacity of the people. Efforts have been put in...
Read MoreResilience – A channel of hope or just a fashionable jargon? An African Community Lens: Grounded Perspectives
Interpreting resilience in a (more) complex century A conceptual exploration. By Beatrice Hati - MSc, PhD (ongoing) Beatrice is an urban planner, development specialist and scholar-activist working as the Coordinator of the Kenya Urban Hub at...
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