Jack Makau

Board of Directors

Jack Makau is an Associate director of SDI Kenya, the support NGO to Muungano wa Wanavijiji, the Kenyan Slum Dwellers Federation, affiliated globally to Shack Dwellers Interational.

Over the course of his 22 years with the organisation, Mr. Makau has been involved in informal settlement enumeration and mapping processes that have registered more than 300,000 households in more than 140 settlements. He has also taken part in baseline surveys in more than 400 informal settlements in cities across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Ghana, and Bukina Faso.

These processes have included: The citywide enumeration of Kisumu city, Kenya - Cities Without Slums program; Development of a Railway Resettlement Action Plan in Kibera and Mukuru, Kenya - a World Bank/ Government of Kenya project; the Land, Services & Citizenship (LSC) projects in Ghana and Uganda - a Cities Alliance project; Development of Open Title GIS mapping software, Ghana; Piloting of the Social Tenure Domain Model in Uganda  - a GLTN/SDI project; and the Mukuru Special Planning Area, an innovative and groundbreaking collaborative urban development project in Nairobi’s largest informal settlement, Mukuru.

Mr. Makau’s involvement in these processes has variously included research design, tool development, training, research implementation and coordination, analysis and reporting.

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