Kilion Nyambuga

Manager: City and Settlement Planning

Kilion is a Graduate Urban and Regional Planner from the University of Nairobi. Since 2013, Kilion has been working as a Programme Officer in charge of Research and Planning for the Slum Dwellers International – Kenya, a technical support organization to Muungano wa Wanavijiji.

During this period, he supported the SDI network (which includes 17 countries in Africa) in its historic transition from analogue to digital data collection and management. He has also supported peer-to-peer learning exchanges (which is SDI’s primary knowledge transfer) with community members and his professional peers in 17 cities in Kenya and 5 SDI countries, including notably Liberia, Senegal, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Uganda. As Programme officer at SDI-K, he has focused on ensuring access to accurate data on slums for planning.

His current project management portfolio includes working with Nairobi City County and Mukuru Community members to help develop a Mukuru Integrated Development Plan (Mukuru Special Planning Area (SPA) project) whose implementation will address the unique development challenges and opportunities faced by the settlement.

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