Publications
LEARN Master’s Thesis Lab 2025
Rapid urbanization and mounting climate pressures, innovative, interdisciplinary research is crucial to building resilient and equitable cities. Since its launch in December 2024 in Nairobi, the LEARN Master’s Thesis Lab has brought together Kenyan and Dutch master’s students in a collaborative setting that bridges academic research and practical application.
Mainstreaming Indigenous Nature-Based Solutions in African Urban Practice: Insights and Calls to Action from a Cross-City Dialogue
Nature-based Solutions are actions that protect, manage and restore ecosystems while addressing
societal challenges. They are rooted in the traditional ecological knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities. Across Africa, practices such as water harvesting, sacred forests and rotational grazing have sustained both communities and ecosystems for generations.
Catalyzing the Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Promoting Urban Resilience in East African Cities
AI offers powerful tools for predictive analytics, resource optimization, and enhanced decision-making in disaster management, infrastructure planning, and public service delivery. However, realizing this Potential requires moving beyond importing foreign models and confronting foundational challenges including fragmented data ecosystems, digital divides, and ethical governance gaps.
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
Implementation policy & Community Resilience: Urban Flooding in the Mathare River Valley in 2024
Disaster Preparedness Training Manual
“We Just Scream and Hope for Help”: The Role of the Community in Fire Disaster Management: A Case study of Kiandutu, Kiambu County, Kenya
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
A Community-Based Energy Cooperative (CBEC) roadmap. This approach turns informal providers into certified Community Energy Agents (CEAs), aligns tariffs with community affordability, and ensures transparent governance.
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
This 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.
Eco-Charcoal Production in Kisigau Project Area
Scaling eco-charcoal production offers a practical pathway, balancing environmental conservation with social and economic benefits.
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.
