{"id":3888,"date":"2019-07-19T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","slug":"we-must-tackle-the-garbage-crisis-in-the-slums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/19\/we-must-tackle-the-garbage-crisis-in-the-slums\/","title":{"rendered":"We Must Tackle The Garbage Crisis In The Slums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By John Wafula<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basic sanitation or lack of it is a major challenge facing millions of Kenyans living in informal settlements. With at least 56 percent of Kenyans living in informal settlements, according to projections by the UN-Habitat, providing basic amenities to residents has become a key part of the ongoing national dialogue on inclusive and sustainable growth. These areas suffer from deficiencies in services and basic infrastructure that worsens pollution, poverty, and ill-health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the biggest challenges in informal settlements is poor solid waste management. Past interventions to address the problem have had low success rates. For example, an experiment with dustbins in several settlements has not been successful due to vandalism, theft, and non-collection creating mini-dumpsites. This applies to other temporal collection points which are quickly converted into dumpsites due to the irregular collection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kenya Informal\nSettlements Improvement Project (KISIP), a -project of the Government of Kenya,\nwith support from the World Bank, the Swedish International Development\nCooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Agence Fran\u00e7aise de Development (AFD) is a\nkey intervention whose objective is to improve living conditions of people\nliving in informal settlements by improving security of land tenure and\ninvesting in infrastructure based on plans developed in consultation with\ncommunities. You may be interested in\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/eblog\/we-must-tackle-the-garbage-crisis-in-the-slums\/\">read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Wafula Basic sanitation or lack of it is a major challenge facing millions of Kenyans living in informal settlements. With at least 56 percent of Kenyans living in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}