Region: Kenya

Building Capacity for Change: Developing Women’s Leadership and Business Skills

This is an account of the “Developing Leadership & Business Skills for Informal Women Workers in Fair Trade” project, which took place...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Nakuru, Kenya

Street trade, neoliberalisation and the control of space: Nairobi’s Central Business District in the era of entrepreneurial urbanism.Journal of Eastern African Studies

The article discusses this hypothesis by examining the evolution of spatial politics on the streets of Nairobi’s Central Business District...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Nakuru, Kenya

In Nakuru, WIEGO partnered with Kenya National Association of Street Vendors and Informal Traders (KENASVIT) to carry out this study.

Efficient lighting uptake among the urban poor: evidence from a Kenyan informal settlementEnvironment and Urbanization

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. 

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Nakuru, Kenya

The confounding influence of urban informality on innovation and production specialisation in production clusters: evidence from Nairobi

Abstract: This paper investigates two agglomeration economies, innovation and production specialisation, within Nairobi’s handicraft...

Fact Sheet: Women Organizing for Fair Trade in Kenya

Details of the MDG3-funded Fair Trade project in Kenya.

Machakos Co-operative Union Ltd.

African smallholder farmers fought for the right to organize, and in the 1950s, were finally allowed to promote and register cooperatives...

The Rockefeller Foundation’s Informal City Dialogues

According to the website, “the Informal City Dialogues is a year-long project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and conducted...