Second Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project

The development objective of the Second Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project for Kenya is to improve access to basic services and tenure security of residents in participating urban informal settlements and strengthen institutional capacity for slum upgrading in Kenya. The project comprises of four components. The first component, integrated settlement upgrading aims at saving both money and time, ensuring better coordination between the two interventions in a settlement and deepening the project’s overall impact on the participating communities by supporting tenure regularization and infrastructure upgrading in the same communities. It consists of following sub-components: (i) tenure regularization; and (ii) infrastructure upgrading. The second component, socio-economic inclusion planning will finance community development plans to enhance social and economic resilience given the anticipated effects of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the high risk that informal settlements face to other shocks and stressors, including climate extremes, crime, and violence, etc. The third component, institutional capacity development for slum upgrading will finance institutional and policy development at national and county levels. The component will develop a capacity building plan for national and county levels to implement the policy and to develop understanding of slum upgrading processes. The fourth component, program management and coordination will finance activities of the national project coordination team (NPCT) and the county project coordination teams (CPCTs) related to national and county-level project management and coordination, including planning, surveying, engineering, fiduciary (financial management and procurement), safeguards compliance and monitoring, monitoring and evaluation (M and E), and communication and community development.