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Pamoja Trust

Nairobi, Kenya
Joined September 2023

Pamoja Trust (PT) is a non-profit making organization founded in 1999. PT is dedicated to promoting access to land, shelter and basic services for the urban poor.



Presence in: Kenya
Focus: Community Organizing, Community Paralegals, Environmental Justice, Governance, Accountability & Transparency, Housing Rights & Informal Settlements, Policy Advocacy, Refugees & Migrant Rights, Right to Information, Women's Rights

The organization takes principled and pragmatic approaches to protection and promotion of the right to the city through advocacy and precedence setting models for problem solving. PT provides social, technical and legal expertise at local community, national and international levels to ensure that urban growth and urbanism adhere to social justice principles and those national and international Human Rights standards are implemented in favour of the most vulnerable of urban citizens. PT collaborates closely with Muungano wa Wanavijiji (MWW), a federation of over 30,000 households living in 400 informal settlements across Kenya. The organization was founded as part of the anti-evictions movement that sort moratorium against evictions as well as the promotion of all human rights for the urban poor. Over the last decade, we have pursued this mandate by organizing the urban poor; undertaking trainings and advocacy. The vision of the organisation is based on five pillars;

  1. State and Market Justice
  2. People’s Movement;
  3. Ecological Justice;
  4. Institution Building and Sustainability;
  5. Asset building and models for Rights.

Pamoja has 12 permanent staff headquartered in Nairobi and an additional 2 members on short-term, project-specific tasks. Led by an executive director and a 7-member board of trustees, the organisation’s activities centre upon the following areas:

  1. Establishing and consolidating grassroots savings schemes
  2. Strengthening the federation’s structures and promoting its political engagement
  3. Urban planning, house modelling and community-led construction Participatory research, advocacy and lobbying;
  4. Coordinating international   exchanges with federations, NGOs and other stakeholders; and
  5. Creating state and non-state partnerships to support  grassroots development projects

Pamoja Trust operates in 8 counties in Kenya. These Counties include Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret, Embu, Garissa, Makueni and Machakos.