KISIP — Kenya's Informal Settlements Improvement Project

Launched in 2011 with co-financing from the World Bank, Sweden's Sida and the French Development Agency (AFD), the Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project (KISIP) set out to improve tenure security and infrastructure in informal settlements, growing from 15 urban centres in 14 counties under Phase 1 (2011) to 81 settlements across 33 counties under the roughly US$165 million Phase 2, due to close in 2026.

Phase 1 prepared land titles and delivered infrastructure works including bitumen roads, footpaths, drainage canals, and combined sewer and water pipelines and connections. The approach was formally mainstreamed into Kenya's National Slum Upgrading and Prevention Policy in 2016.

Phase 1 prepared 23,397 land titles benefiting 26,387 households directly and around 110,820 households indirectly, with infrastructure works — 98.3km of bitumen roads, 120km of footpaths, roughly 110km of drainage canals, over 100km of combined sewer and water pipelines, and thousands of new water and sewer connections — reported to have benefited more than 1.3 million residents in total.

World Bank Implementation Status and Results reports have independently tracked disbursement and physical progress against these targets, though as with most large tenure-regularisation programmes, land titling has generally proceeded more slowly than the infrastructure works in several counties.