Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
Global Fellow
Professional Affiliation
Visiting Senior Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Expert Bio
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato is a Visiting Senior Researcher at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand and an affiliate at Tufts University. In 2011, she received a MacArthur grant on Migration and Development and spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM), Georgetown University, Washington DC. Her career has involved both teaching and conducting research in the academy and the non-profit sector in South Africa. Since 2006, she has worked with Urban LandMark as its southern African program coordinator. She was previously a Policy Analyst at the Development Bank of Southern Africa and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. She worked for six years as a Policy Analyst at the Centre for Policy Studies. Her research and teaching interests are migration, governance, urbanization in the global South.
Wilson Center Project
"Strengthening Local Government Responses to Displacement in Africa"
Project Summary
The project aims at building on existing knowledge of displaced populations in Johannesburg, Kampala and Nairobi to identify the mechanisms for promoting more effective local government humanitarian responses while minimizing the need for a parallel delivery mechanism. The project aims at designing an assessment tool for municipal officials and humanitarian organizations as they seek to serve displaced populations coming into and living in Africa's urban centers.
Major Publications
Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Life in an in-between City, 2013 Palgrave Macmillan: New York
Trading Places: Accessing Land in African Cities (co-edited with M. Napier, S. Berrisford, L. Royston and R. McGaffin. African Minds: Cape Town
Urban Diversity: Space, Culture and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide (co-edited with M. Massoumi, B. Ruble, P. Subiros and A. Garland WWCIS: Washington DC
Insight & Analysis by Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
- Past event
- Women & Gender
Urbanization and Insecurity: Crowding, Conflict, and Gender
- Past event
- Environment
Getting Past Megacities: How Peri-Urban Has Become the New City Center
- Past event
- Urban Studies
Informal Settlements in the U.S.: Sharing Lessons Learned at Home and Abroad
- Publication
A Response Paper: Community Resilience in the Twenty-First Century
- Book
- Urban Studies