Boulder Kisumu Sister City Committee

Kisumu City Centre

Boulder, CO

"As the Traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstop, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”

City Of Boulder Sister Cities Site

Marius Klee and Movement Bikes

The Orbis Institute - Fellowships to Kisumu

Boulder Rotary

Roanoke Kisumu Sister City

Crutches 4 Africa

Isaka Memorial Foundation

Links to Kisumu City Assessment Documents:

Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI)

“Assessing Infrastructure Constraints on Business Activity in Kisumu, Kenya,” (Working paper No. 05/2008)

"An Overview of the Main Environmental Issues Affecting Kisumu and Lake Victoria’s Winam Gulf,” (Working paper No. 02/2009)

“Education Needs Assessment for Kisumu City, Kenya” (Working Paper No. 01/2008),"

Invest in Kenya: Focus Kisumu (July 2007):

“Sugar in Kisumu,” (Working Paper No. 06/2008).

Other Resources

A Water and Sanitation Program (www.wsp.org) project, based out of their Africa Region office in Nairobi, was “Improving Water Utility Services Through Delegated Management: Lessons Learned from the utility and small scale providers in Kisumu.” http://www.wsp.org/UserFiles/file/Af-imp_through_delegated_mgmt.pdf

SITUATION ANALYSIS OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS IN KISUMU CITIES WITHOUT SLUMS SUB-REGIONAL PROGRAMME FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA KENYA SLUM UPGRADING PROGRAMME United Nations Human Settlements Programme Document

Kisumu Citizens Report Card - A Citizen’s Report Card which provides officials with resident’s evaluation of urban water supply, sanitation and solid waste services. It includes four cities including Kisumu. This gives you the citizens view of how well services are being delivered. http://www.irc.nl/docsearch/title/155093