Community Land Trust – Voi, Kenya

dir. par Claire Simonneau, UMR Géographie-cités, France, June 2018

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Summary :

In Kenya, at the end of the 1990s, a CLT was put in place as a component of a slum upgrading and land regularization project in the informal neighborhood of Tanzania-Bondeni in Voi city, with help of the German Cooperation Agency (GIZ). Legal owners of the land agreed to donate their portion of squatted land as a contribution to the project, and the option to constitute a CLT has been chosen by the community. The use of this collective form of tenure aimed at providing land tenure security for slum dwellers, seeking to avoid land resale. Indeed, many slums upgrading projects lead to the resale of parcels by the inhabitants after the regularization process, so that the targeted communities, the most deprived, do not finally benefit from the project. 

The implementation of the CLT had been a challenge since the legal context in Kenya was not adequate to create a Trust. It took years to effectively put in place the CLT. 

Sources :

cfuhabitat.hypotheses.org/terrains-detude/community-land-trust-voi-kenya