Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project (KISIP) – Ministry of Transport, Housing, Infrastructure, Urban Development & Public Works

Government of Kenya, World Bank, SIDA, IDA and AFD

• ­ The project was done under the Kenyan government initiative of Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project (KISIP) whose main objective was to improve the living and working conditions of the selected informal settlements by enhancing tenure security.
• The tenure regularization exercise was broadly based on formalization, legalization, and titles conferment to beneficiaries in the respective informal settlements

Administration: Project managers, office administrators, company counsel, Project accountant-8 no. persons

Key Experts: Urban Planners, Land surveyors, Environmental experts, Land Administration Expert, Sociologists, GIS Experts, and Resettlement & Social Safeguards experts-15 no. persons

Non-Key Experts: Assistant project manager, assistant land surveyors, assistant urban planners-35 persons

Support staff: research /field work assistants, community leadership, casuals- 152 persons

• ­ The project was done under the Kenyan government initiative of Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project (KISIP) whose main objective was to improve the living and working conditions of the selected informal settlements by enhancing tenure security.
• The tenure regularization exercise was broadly based on formalization, legalization, and titles conferment to beneficiaries in the respective informal settlements

Summary of Activities

1. Community mobilization and sensitization for stakeholder engagement

2. Identification and preparation of digital basemaps

3. Socio-economic and physical mapping of the settlement and respective communities

4. Social and Environmental Screening

5. Preparation of Local Physical Development Plans for the respective informal settlements and approval of the plans.

6. Identification of Project Affected Persons (PAPs), geo-referencing their spatial location and preparation of Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs)

7. Surveying of resultant plots, preparation of survey plans and approval

8. Signing of beacon certificate by beneficiaries

9. Amendment and Sealing of Registry Index Maps complete with area lists/Preparation of Deed plans.

10. Development of a Land Information System

11. Titling

• ­Regularization of Tenure Insitu
• ­Planning approaches: Community participatory planning, Conventional vs. adaptive planning
• ­Multifaceted tenure options: individual titles, community titles, group titles
• Survey approaches: cadastral, sectional properties survey

• List of beneficiaries for each settlement
• Physical and Land use Plans for each settlement
• Amended RIMs complete with Area List for 3 no. settlements
• Deed plan for 1 no. settlement
• Resettlement action plans for all the settlements
• Land information systems for 4 no. settlement
• 241 no titles deeds