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We are pleased to invite you to the first session of our Urban Development Webinar Series, titled "Changing our Future through Urban Planning." This webinar is jointly organized by the Kenya Property Developers Association and Architectural Association of Kenya - Town Planners Chapter (AAK-TPC).
Urban planning is a critical factor in addressing the rapid urbanization in Kenya. The Physical and Land Use Planning Act No. 13 of 2019 (PLUPA) and the County Governments Act, 2012 provide the foundation for development control tools aligned with the nation's socio-economic agendas such as Vision 2030 and the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA). However, recent observations indicate a discrepancy in the application of these zoning laws, particularly in areas like Eastleigh, Kileleshwa, and Lavington, where conflicting comments on building heights have trivialized established guidelines.
Since the transition to devolved government, counties have become pivotal in managing urban challenges, from waste management to housing and transportation. The Urban Areas and Cities Amendment Act, 2019 (UACA) and the Kenya Urban Support Program (KUSP) are instrumental in enhancing urban governance. These frameworks emphasize the importance of municipal boards in urban management, advocating for capacity building to improve decision-making, resource allocation, and service delivery, leading to more sustainable and resilient urban environments.
The Urban Development Webinar Series aims to facilitate insightful discussions on urban policies and the management of urban areas in Kenya. This inaugural session will focus on the current state of planning and development in Nairobi City and explore potential solutions to the challenges stemming from urban planning.
Objectives:
- To outline the purpose and process of County Planning and Development Control.
- To discuss urban management policies in Kenya and their efficacy.
- To provide planning solutions for sustainable urban growth.
This is a FREE webinar and promises to be a pivotal platform for exchanging ideas and shaping the future of urban planning in Kenya. We believe your participation will add significant value to the discussion.
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We look forward to your participation.
Agenda
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Welcome & Introduction
Zoravar Singh•Christine Muchiri15
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15
30
Overview of Urban Planning in Nairobi
David GatimuAn overview on the state of planning and urban Development in Nairobi
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16
20
Plenary Session
David Gatimu•Titus Kaloki•Christine Muchiri•Zoravar SinghDiscussions by webinar participants
16
20
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16
25
Conclusions and Recommendations
Christine Muchiri•David Gatimu•Titus Kaloki•Emma Miloyo•Zoravar SinghSummary of recommendations
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25
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Closing Remarks
Christine MuchiriWelcome & Introduction
Speakers
Zoravar Singh
Managing Director of iJenga Housing Kenya LimitedZoravar Singh is the Managing Director of iJenga, an integrated real estate development and investment company.
Zoravar also serves as a Director of the Kenya Property Developers Association where he Chairs the Affordable Housing Task Force.
Previously, Zoravar served as General Manager for Agriculture at Equity Group Foundation, CEO of Community Lab with The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he focused on health systems and integrated development in developing countries.
Prior to that Zoravar was a real estate investment banker at Merrill Lynch in New York and he started his career as a management and technology consultant at Accenture.
Zoravar received a Bachelors of Commerce in Operations Management from the University of Alberta and a Masters of Business Administration in real estate and finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Christine Muchiri
Managing Director of MaCa PlanOverview of Urban Planning in Nairobi
An overview on the state of planning and urban Development in Nairobi
Speakers
David Gatimu
CEO/Principal Consultant of Salute Spatial Solutions LtdDavid Gatimu is an Oxford Brookes University trained urban planner, with experience spanning over 30 years.
He started his career with the Nairobi City Council (now the Nairobi City County Government) where he served in several roles over the years among them as Assistant Director of Planning. He served his last public service role as the Chief Officer responsible for lands, housing and physical planning in Kiambu County Government, in 2017.
During his entire public service career, he has been deeply involved in urban policy formulation and urban development management in the most dynamic urban environments in Kenya. Mr. Gatimu has a deep passion and commitment to entrench the influence of planning with the defining characteristics of climate resilience. He believes that as devolution governance takes root in Kenya, the negative consequences of urbanisation must awaken the Green Climate solutions.
His vast experience has continued to keep him constantly engaged within the private sector, professional bodies’ networks in the built environment, development partners and community based organisations in developing ideas, innovations and capacity building in urban governance. He is currently a member of Kenya Property Developer’s Affordable Housing Task Force and also provides regular urban governance advisories to the Kenya Private Sector Alliance Land Sector Board.
Since 2019, he has been carrying out assignments with UN-Habitat is supporting several counties on urban development and governance systems. The cumulative work from these assignments enabled Mr. Gatimu to co-author the “Guidebook on Managing Infrastructure Development through Physical & Land Use Planning Processes in Kenya” (https://unhabitat.org/managing-and-financing-urban-development-through-physical-land-use-planning-processes-in-kenya-a). The guidebook was published in July 2022
Plenary Session
Discussions by webinar participants
Speakers
David Gatimu
CEO/Principal Consultant of Salute Spatial Solutions LtdDavid Gatimu is an Oxford Brookes University trained urban planner, with experience spanning over 30 years.
He started his career with the Nairobi City Council (now the Nairobi City County Government) where he served in several roles over the years among them as Assistant Director of Planning. He served his last public service role as the Chief Officer responsible for lands, housing and physical planning in Kiambu County Government, in 2017.
During his entire public service career, he has been deeply involved in urban policy formulation and urban development management in the most dynamic urban environments in Kenya. Mr. Gatimu has a deep passion and commitment to entrench the influence of planning with the defining characteristics of climate resilience. He believes that as devolution governance takes root in Kenya, the negative consequences of urbanisation must awaken the Green Climate solutions.
His vast experience has continued to keep him constantly engaged within the private sector, professional bodies’ networks in the built environment, development partners and community based organisations in developing ideas, innovations and capacity building in urban governance. He is currently a member of Kenya Property Developer’s Affordable Housing Task Force and also provides regular urban governance advisories to the Kenya Private Sector Alliance Land Sector Board.
Since 2019, he has been carrying out assignments with UN-Habitat is supporting several counties on urban development and governance systems. The cumulative work from these assignments enabled Mr. Gatimu to co-author the “Guidebook on Managing Infrastructure Development through Physical & Land Use Planning Processes in Kenya” (https://unhabitat.org/managing-and-financing-urban-development-through-physical-land-use-planning-processes-in-kenya-a). The guidebook was published in July 2022
Titus Kaloki
Program Coordinator at Friedrich-Ebert-StiftungChristine Muchiri
Managing Director of MaCa PlanZoravar Singh
Managing Director of iJenga Housing Kenya LimitedZoravar Singh is the Managing Director of iJenga, an integrated real estate development and investment company.
Zoravar also serves as a Director of the Kenya Property Developers Association where he Chairs the Affordable Housing Task Force.
Previously, Zoravar served as General Manager for Agriculture at Equity Group Foundation, CEO of Community Lab with The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he focused on health systems and integrated development in developing countries.
Prior to that Zoravar was a real estate investment banker at Merrill Lynch in New York and he started his career as a management and technology consultant at Accenture.
Zoravar received a Bachelors of Commerce in Operations Management from the University of Alberta and a Masters of Business Administration in real estate and finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Conclusions and Recommendations
Summary of recommendations
Speakers
Christine Muchiri
Managing Director of MaCa PlanDavid Gatimu
CEO/Principal Consultant of Salute Spatial Solutions LtdDavid Gatimu is an Oxford Brookes University trained urban planner, with experience spanning over 30 years.
He started his career with the Nairobi City Council (now the Nairobi City County Government) where he served in several roles over the years among them as Assistant Director of Planning. He served his last public service role as the Chief Officer responsible for lands, housing and physical planning in Kiambu County Government, in 2017.
During his entire public service career, he has been deeply involved in urban policy formulation and urban development management in the most dynamic urban environments in Kenya. Mr. Gatimu has a deep passion and commitment to entrench the influence of planning with the defining characteristics of climate resilience. He believes that as devolution governance takes root in Kenya, the negative consequences of urbanisation must awaken the Green Climate solutions.
His vast experience has continued to keep him constantly engaged within the private sector, professional bodies’ networks in the built environment, development partners and community based organisations in developing ideas, innovations and capacity building in urban governance. He is currently a member of Kenya Property Developer’s Affordable Housing Task Force and also provides regular urban governance advisories to the Kenya Private Sector Alliance Land Sector Board.
Since 2019, he has been carrying out assignments with UN-Habitat is supporting several counties on urban development and governance systems. The cumulative work from these assignments enabled Mr. Gatimu to co-author the “Guidebook on Managing Infrastructure Development through Physical & Land Use Planning Processes in Kenya” (https://unhabitat.org/managing-and-financing-urban-development-through-physical-land-use-planning-processes-in-kenya-a). The guidebook was published in July 2022
Titus Kaloki
Program Coordinator at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Emma Miloyo
Director of Design Source and Author Building in KenyaEmma Miloyo is a practicing Architect and partner at Design Source with vast experience in the building industry in the East and Central Africa region. She was the first female President of the Architectural Association of Kenya was recognized as one of “Top 40 under 40 Women in Kenya” in 2011 and 2018 by the Nation Media Group’s Business Daily. Emma is an Eisenhower Fellow (2015). She is married with 3 beautiful children.
Emma’s lifelong ambition is to inspire young women and help them break the glass ceiling that has limited their success, especially in male-dominated fields like architecture.
She is a Director at Kiota School where her passion for education and nurturing of young minds extends.
Zoravar Singh
Managing Director of iJenga Housing Kenya LimitedZoravar Singh is the Managing Director of iJenga, an integrated real estate development and investment company.
Zoravar also serves as a Director of the Kenya Property Developers Association where he Chairs the Affordable Housing Task Force.
Previously, Zoravar served as General Manager for Agriculture at Equity Group Foundation, CEO of Community Lab with The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he focused on health systems and integrated development in developing countries.
Prior to that Zoravar was a real estate investment banker at Merrill Lynch in New York and he started his career as a management and technology consultant at Accenture.
Zoravar received a Bachelors of Commerce in Operations Management from the University of Alberta and a Masters of Business Administration in real estate and finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Closing Remarks
Speakers
Christine Muchiri
Managing Director of MaCa PlanSpeakers
David Gatimu
CEO/Principal Consultant of Salute Spatial Solutions Ltd
David Gatimu is an Oxford Brookes University trained urban planner, with experience spanning over 30 years.
He started his career with the Nairobi City Council (now the Nairobi City County Government) where he served in several roles over the years among them as Assistant Director of Planning. He served his last public service role as the Chief Officer responsible for lands, housing and physical planning in Kiambu County Government, in 2017.
During his entire public service career, he has been deeply involved in urban policy formulation and urban development management in the most dynamic urban environments in Kenya. Mr. Gatimu has a deep passion and commitment to entrench the influence of planning with the defining characteristics of climate resilience. He believes that as devolution governance takes root in Kenya, the negative consequences of urbanisation must awaken the Green Climate solutions.
His vast experience has continued to keep him constantly engaged within the private sector, professional bodies’ networks in the built environment, development partners and community based organisations in developing ideas, innovations and capacity building in urban governance. He is currently a member of Kenya Property Developer’s Affordable Housing Task Force and also provides regular urban governance advisories to the Kenya Private Sector Alliance Land Sector Board.
Since 2019, he has been carrying out assignments with UN-Habitat is supporting several counties on urban development and governance systems. The cumulative work from these assignments enabled Mr. Gatimu to co-author the “Guidebook on Managing Infrastructure Development through Physical & Land Use Planning Processes in Kenya” (https://unhabitat.org/managing-and-financing-urban-development-through-physical-land-use-planning-processes-in-kenya-a). The guidebook was published in July 2022
Titus Kaloki
Program Coordinator at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Emma Miloyo
Director of Design Source and Author Building in Kenya
Emma Miloyo is a practicing Architect and partner at Design Source with vast experience in the building industry in the East and Central Africa region. She was the first female President of the Architectural Association of Kenya was recognized as one of “Top 40 under 40 Women in Kenya” in 2011 and 2018 by the Nation Media Group’s Business Daily. Emma is an Eisenhower Fellow (2015). She is married with 3 beautiful children.
Emma’s lifelong ambition is to inspire young women and help them break the glass ceiling that has limited their success, especially in male-dominated fields like architecture.
She is a Director at Kiota School where her passion for education and nurturing of young minds extends.
Christine
Muchiri
Managing Director of MaCa Plan
Zoravar Singh is the Managing Director of iJenga, an integrated real estate development and investment company.
Zoravar also serves as a Director of the Kenya Property Developers Association where he Chairs the Affordable Housing Task Force.
Previously, Zoravar served as General Manager for Agriculture at Equity Group Foundation, CEO of Community Lab with The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he focused on health systems and integrated development in developing countries.
Prior to that Zoravar was a real estate investment banker at Merrill Lynch in New York and he started his career as a management and technology consultant at Accenture.
Zoravar received a Bachelors of Commerce in Operations Management from the University of Alberta and a Masters of Business Administration in real estate and finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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