As a follow-up to AHRC FERN we are currently working on AHRC IAA project “Community engagement workshops on housing and energy in Nairobi” (2023) with NGO partner Akiba Mashinini Trust (AMT) in Kenya. Adopting AMT method of community engagement and slum upgrading, we will bring our experience from the AHRC project to look at improving energy access and housing conditions inn informal settlements, especially from women’s perspective. We will collect data in women’s energy use and livelihoods in Mukuru and compare it to cases in India and South Africa.
If you would like to get more information on about the projects please contact Professor Minna Sunikka-Blank.
Relevant links:
Department of Architecture, Cambridge
- Life in slum rehab leaves women with little time, money (The Mumbai Mirror, December 2018)
- SRA designs curb air flow, worsen indoor air pollution (Hindustan Times, December 2019)
- Rising electricity bills of Mumbai slums threaten India's energy security, reveals Cambridge study (The Hindustan Time, June, 2019)
- How renewable energy can transform slum communities (December, 2019)
- CineGenus – Women and energy in Indian cinema
- New Community Involvement Project Uses Participatory Video Techniques to Assess the Impact of the SUNRISE Building (November, 2022)
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