Global Health Equity Research in Translation brings academic research to broader audiences: decision makers, policy makers, advocacy groups, philanthropists, and journalists. The series draws on ...

Warren Smit has been a researcher on urban issues since 1993. He is currently Research Manager at the African Centre on Cities at the University of Cape Town. He manages ACC’s health research stream ...

I had only lived in Kibera for 15 minutes when I saw a police officer and was arrested. But it would be years before I saw a real doctor. In 2001, at the age of 13, I had come to Kenya’s largest ...

At least 400 vulnerable families in Dagoretti South have benefited from a food distribution and livelihoods programme dubbed ...

Kibera is frequently labeled as the biggest informal settlement in Africa, courtesy of its estimated population of 1 million as quoted by many NGOs active in the area. A GIS-assisted survey, however, ...

On a Thursday afternoon, around 3pm, residents of an informal settlement gathered to discuss the upgrading of their settlement. A young woman called Minenhle Zuma (not her real name) started speaking, ...

KIBERA, Kenya — Nearly 10 months after a grandmother in England became the first person in the world to get vaccinated against Covid-19 outside of a clinical trial, we were finally able to start ...

The City of Tshwane's draft policy on informal settlement management, currently open for public input, aims to curb the growth of informal settlements and explore revenue-generating opportunities. One ...