Publications

Leiden-Delft-Erasmus-East Africa Research Network – Fostering collaboration for Impactful Urban Research
Resilient Urban Futures: Adapting Livelihoods to Climate Change

East African cities face growing climate-related challenges, exacerbated by rapid urbanisation. Issues such as rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, droughts, and flooding put significant pressure on infrastructure, livelihoods, and social well-being. 

Scaling up local actions shaping climate trajectories in East African Cities

Climate change in East Africa has far-reaching effects that manifest both in large-scale disruptions and in smaller, daily inconveniences that often go unnoticed.  Locally Led Adaptation (LLA) emphasises the importance of local people having control.

Kuku Group Ranch Clean Energy & Conservation Toolkit
This toolkit is the product of shared dreams and grounded knowledge crafted by researchers, community members, and partners working hand in hand to explore how clean energy, forest conservation, and local leadership can shape a healthier, more hopeful tomorrow.
Implementation policy & Community Resilience: Urban Flooding in the Mathare River Valley in 2024
This thesis analyses the implementation of devolution and disaster risk management policies by the national and county governments of Kenya and projects the findings onto a case study of the urban flooding in the Mathare River Valley in 2024.
Disaster Preparedness Training Manual
Disasters affect everyone but not equally. In fast-growing urban settlements like Lucky Summer, disasters such as floods, fires, and disease outbreaks are not distant possibilities, they are lived realities. This toolkit responds to the urgent need to equip communities with practical, locally relevant skills and knowledge to reduce, and recover from disaster events.
“We Just Scream and Hope for Help”: The Role of the Community in Fire Disaster Management: A Case study of Kiandutu, Kiambu County, Kenya
This investigated how the community in Kiandutu, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Thika, Kenya, responds and prepares for the recurring threat of fire disasters.
Let’s Make Lucky Summer Safer: What We Found and What We Can Do Together

Lucky Summer Ward is home to thousands of hardworking people families, students, traders, and workers trying to build a better life. 

A Community-Driven Roadmap for Safer Electricity in Mathare

This Is a roadmap to reduce fires in Mathare.

Rural Energy Use in Promoting Biodiveristy Conservation and Community Development in Kajiado South Subcounty

Kajiado South Sub-County is located in the southeastern part of Kenya and forms part of the country’s expansive arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). Several group ranches lie within this sub-county, among them the Kuku Group Ranch.

Clean Energy and Conservation in Kuku Group Ranch-Community Brief

his community brief focuses on clean energy and conservation efforts within Kuku Group Ranch, a Maasai pastoralist community located in southern Kenya near Amboseli National Park.

A Community-Driven Roadmap for Safer Electricity in Mathare

This Is a roadmap to reduce fires in Mathare.

Rural Energy Use in Promoting Biodiveristy Conservation and Community Development in Kajiado South Subcounty

Kajiado South Sub-County is located in the southeastern part of Kenya and forms part of the country’s expansive arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). Several group ranches lie within this sub-county, among them the Kuku Group Ranch.

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