Kisumu to host Second International Conference on Affordable Housing


Coordinator for Grass Root Trust Lawrence Kapiyo{C} address the media today to highlight on the forthcoming Second  International Conference on Affordable Housing in Kisumu to be held next week. Looking on is Easter Oketch of the Kenya Female Advisory Organization and Bernard Okebe of Community Empowerment and Media Initiative in Kisumu-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo


By Dickson Odhiambo

October 1, 2021

Kisumu to host Second International Conference on Affordable Housing

Kisumu City is set to host the Second International Conference on adequate and Affordable Housing for all for sustainable development this month of October.

The Conference is organized into two parts namely one which will be conducted virtually and the one which will be conducted physically in Kisumu City.

Addressing the press in Kisumu today to brief the press on the preparation made so far for the conference, Coordinator of Grass Root Trust Lawrence Kapiyo said the virtual Conference will be held next week on October 5 and 6.

He says the physical meeting for the conference will be held on October 18 and 19 with not more than 100 people attending it within the Lake side City of Kisumu.

Kapiyo says the main reason of holding a physical meeting during the said international Conference is that it is the best way to influence and agree with people who are not convinced.

He says the virtual meeting will be held so as to help adhere with the health protocols on Covid-19 disease.

Kapiyo says the overall objective of the Conference is to promote sustained stronger engagement, commitment and support of the National and County Governments on land reforms, moratorium on evictions and implementation of affordable housing with focus on low-income category of the society thus contributing to the progressive realization of the right to access to secure land and affordable housing for sustainable development at the same catalyze the processes of implementation of the resolutions of the first International Conference on Housing held in March 2019.

Easter Oketch from Kenya Female Advisory Organization {KEFEADO} which is one of the organizations under Kisumu Governance Caucus which are organizing the conference says some of the issues that will be discussed include local physical and land use development plans as drivers of spatial justice for sustainable land management, administration and use for a just and equitable urban and cities growth.

Others include the Kenyan Land Policy and Legal Frameworks and the interpretation of the right to land and emerging models of land ownership in Kenya in comparison with other jurisdictions among other issues

Some Members of the Kisumu Governance Caucus include Kenya Female Advisory Organization, Grass root Trust, Community Empowerment and Media Initiative in Kisumu{CEMI-K}, Transparency International, Transform Empowerment for Action Initiative{TEAM} among others.

 

 

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