Browsing Department of Urban & Regional Planning by Title

Examination of The Institutional Capacity of Ministry of Land and Settlement, Ministry of Housing and Kisumu City Council Towards Low Cost Housing Development in Kenya

Otieno, Samuel Ondola (Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021)

This study was to evaluate the Kenya Government housing policies and strategies for housing the urban poor in Kenya, and how the citizen has benefited from the scheme/plan. Objective of the article was to examine the ...

Exploring the utility of the spatiallyconstrained accessibility measure in integrating urban cycling and land-use in Pune, India

Walter Alando, Mark Brussel, Mark Zuidgeest, Deepthi Durgi (2013-09-12)

Urban cycling in many developing cities is greatly hindered by the physical barriers occasioned by the dichotomous approach to urban land-use and transport planning. This divided approach to planning engenders urban forms ...

Factors determining land use development in the unplanned suburbs of Kisumu Municipality, Kenya.

Moses Otieno Kola, George Mark Onyango, Boniface Oluoch Oindo (2015)

The paper demonstrated that land use development in the unplanned suburbs in Kisumu Municipality is dictated by several factors. It covered three unplanned suburbs namely Nyamasaria, Otonglo and Mamboleo based on Mixed ...

A framework for inclusive transport planning in medium-sized Sub-Saharan African cities

Walter Alando (2017)

Cycling remains poorly integrated into urban transport in many sub-Saharan African cities despite its potential to contribute positively to inclusive transport. Its active use in many medium-sized cities of the region has ...

Framing social inclusion as a benchmark for cycling-inclusive transport policy in Kisumu, Kenya

Framing social inclusion as a benchmark for cycling-inclusive transport policy in Kisumu, Kenya (COGITATIO, 2016-06-07)

Cycling in many cities of the Global South faces unending exclusion from street spaces despite the on-going transport policy reforms. This exclusion worsens the marginalisation of the poor majority who use this mode. In ...

Gendered Implications of Food Trade Regulations in Kisumu City, Kenya

Loice Loo, George Wagah , Noora-Lisa Aberman (Science and Education Publishing, 2021)

The aim of this study is to link governance and gender in the informal food markets which have been overlooked by research and global policy agendas. Specifically, the study sets out to establish the effect of regulations ...

Harnessing Social Capital to Improve Food Security of Peri-Urban Households. Experiences from Kisumu City, Kenya

George G Wagah, Mathenge Mwehe (Science and Education Publishing, 2019)

Although significant progress has been made in recent decades to reduce food insecurity in developing countries, a larger percentage of the peri urban population still experiences food insecurity. The peri urban poor, as ...

Hydronomics and terranomics in the Nyando basin of Western Kenya

Leah Onyango, Brent Swallow, Ruth Meinzen-Dick (2005)

This paper uses the concepts of hydronomics as systems of rules that define water management and terranomics as systems of rules that define land management and explores their linkages in rainfed agriculture and irrigation ...

Land commons for inclusive cities:Producing and securing popular habitat around shared land ownership: a diversity of models, their interests and limitations

Claire Simonneau, Éric Denis, Salomon Benjamin, Ignacio de Souza Lopez, Emmanuel Midheme, Bhuvaneswari Raman, Rafael Soares Gonçalves, Irène Salenson, Issa Sory, Jean-François Valette, Irene Valitutto, Jeanne Clémen (French Development Agency, 2021)

Land tenure challenges in Kisumu City, Kenya

Nelson Obange1 and George G. Wagah2 * (Net Journal of Social Sciences, 2019)

Rapid urbanization often results in land tenure conflicts commonly in urban fringe areas. Overly, this is attributed to lack or in some instance unclear urban planning schemes. Kisumu city, the third largest city in Kenya ...

Legal and policy framework affecting the development of a market in Eldoret Municipality, Kenya

Kamwele, H.W., Wagah, G.G., Onyango, G.M. & Nyström, M. (Mistra urban futures, 11)

Globally the UN Development Program estimates that 800 million people are involved in urban farming worldwide. Of these, 200 million produce food primarily for the market, providing 15 to 20 percent of the world’s food. ...

Local Institutional landscapes and Information challenges as a crucial element for climate change adaptation: A case of Mara River Basin, Keny

Isabella Asamba, Leah Onyango, George Mark Onyango (International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 2019)

The paper reviews the local institutional landscape, information challenges and opportunities for climate change adaptation that institutions within the Mara River Basin can utilize to support communities. At the local ...

Mapping the spatial dimension of food insecurity using GIS-based indicators: A case of Western Kenya

Mwehe Mathenge, Ben GJS Sonneveld, Jacqueline EW Broerse (Springer Netherlands, 2022)

Food insecurity elimination is a major focus of the Sustainable Development Goals and addresses one of the most pressing needs in developing countries. With the increasing incidence of food insecurity, poverty, and ...

The paper reviews the local institutional landscape, information challenges and opportunities for climate change adaptation that institutions within the Mara River Basin can utilize to support communities. At the local level, government, civil society and private sector institutions are at the frontline in harmonizing adaptation practices towards resilience to climate change. Local institutions act as the bridge between the national institutional frameworks and facilitation of local adaptation practices. The socio-political institutional landscape at the local level and its linkages provide institutions with climate change adaptation governance frameworks to enable undertake adaptation. However, information is a major challenge that hampers smooth uptake of adaptation knowledge and skills. This includes scarcity of information; limited access to available information; technical presentation of information; the cost of information; and poor flow of information in institutions. There are information opportunities within the landscape which can enhance institutions’ internalization and application of adaptation practices.

Isabella Asamba, George Mark Onyango, Leah Onyango (International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 2019)

This study evaluates the institutional structures and their role in hindering or supporting adaptation to climate change. Structures are frameworks around which coordination, planning, management and logistics takes place ...