Akiba Mashinani Trust in Kenya

In December 2020, the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF), UrbaMonde and UrbaSEN signed a partnership agreement to undertake a scoping exercise to explore experiences of citizen financing mechanisms for affordable housing delivery.

This short study – available in French and English – documents and disseminates 10 experiences, programs and projects of affordable housing production in Africa. Using bibliographic research and in-depth interviews, this work made it possible to analyze the capacity of projects and partners to be part of the public and private funding chain, and to mobilize the so-called “citizen finance” .

This week’s focus is on the Akiba Mashinani Trust (AMT) in Kenya. The AMT was created by Muungano wa Wanavijiji, the Kenyan federation of slum dwellers. Together with Slum Dwellers International (SDI) Kenya, the federation and the Trust are united in the Muungano Alliance, which provides financial services to residents of informal settlements and low-income groups who are members of the Muungano Alliance and most of the beneficiaries are women.

To find out more about the program in English or French, follow the links below.