Here below are the various publications that Eco-Build has undertaken in recent years.

•    Lubaale, G. (forthcoming) Eradicating the Poor and Poverty in Nairobi’s Progressive Plans for Poverty Reduction – Book Chapter in book being published with Huchzermeyer, M.; Omenya, A.; and Obala, L. on the Urban Challenges of contemporary Nairobi.

•    Lubaale, G. and A. Omenya (2007) The East Africa Community Organisations for Management of Lake Victoria Resources: End Review. Nairobi/Stockholm: Government of Sweden.

•    Lubaale, G. (2004) Impact and Terminal Evaluation of the Integrated Food Security Programme in Zambia. Lusaka and The Hague: Netherlands Red Cross Society and the Zambia Red Cross Society.

•    Lubaale, G. and S.M. Musyoki (2003) PLA and Advocacy for pro-poor development. Abuja: DFID and Capacity Building for Decentralised Development.

•    Lubaale, G. (2002) ActionAid Nigeria: A Country Review. Abuja: ActionAid Nigeria.

•    Lubaale, G. (2001) A Review of the ActionAid Kenya Country Programme 1998 – 2001. Nairobi: ActionAid Kenya.

•    Omenya, A., Lubaale, G., Huchzermeyer,M., & Obala, L. (2010). Unveiling Urban Development Challenges of Contemporary Nairobi. Cape Town: Juta/UCT Press.

•    Omenya, A. (2010) Waste (mis)management and marginal communities:  A study of the Dandora dumpsite. Chapter 13 in Omenya, A., Lubaale, G., Huchzermeyer,M., & Obala, L. (forthcoming). Unveiling Urban Development Challenges of Contemporary Nairobi.

•    Omenya, A. & Huchzermeyer, M. (2006) Slum upgrading in the complex context of policy change: the case of Nairobi. Chapter 15 in Huchzermeyer, M. & Karam, A. (Eds) Perpetual Challenge? Informal Settlements at the Local and Policy Level
•    Cape Town: Juta/UCT Press.

•    Omenya A. (2002) Which Way Self-help Housing in South Africa? School of Architecture and Planning Yearbook 2002. Wits University, Johannesburg, pp 103 – 120.

•    Omenya, A. & Miruka, C. (2009) Social Capital, Public Provisioning and Democratic Governance. Journal of African Studies. (GEFAME, University of Michigan) Vol 6(1)

•    Omenya, A. & Miruka, C. (2010) Augmenting African Public Governance with Social Capital. Journal of Africvan and Asian Studies (Forthcoming)

•    Omenya, A. (2005) A Networks Approach to Understanding the Role of the Market and the State in Housing: the Cases of Nairobi, Kenya and Johannesburg South Africa. Discovery and Innovation, African Academy of Science, 17(3/4)

•    Omenya, A. (2004) Conceptual and theoretical developments in the self-help housing: a case for housing networks analysis in Nairobi, Kenya and Johannesburg, South Africa. Journal of Architecture and Planning


•    Omenya, A. (2011) Climate Change and Urbanisation: Implications for Africa. Paper Presented for the Climate Change Series at USIU Africa.

•    Omenya, A. (2008) Nairobi: A city without a master plan. Paper presented at an international Workshop in Basel Switzerland, 10th to 14th March 2008. Published Conference Proceedings.

•    Omenya A. (2007) Network analysis for resources towards low-income housing. Paper presented at an international conference on Environmental Design, Urbanism and Informality, supported by Holcim Foundation in Shanghai, China, April 2007.
•    Obonyo, E & Omenya, A. (2006) Semantic mark-up of information on sanitation initiatives in informal settlements. Paper to be presented at the Joint International Conference on Computing and Decision Making in Civil and Building Engineering Montreal, Canada, 14th- 16th June.

•    Omenya, A. (2006) Reflecting on international donor agencies’ influences on self-help housing policies in Kenya and South Africa. Paper presented at the Housing Africa 2006 Conference, Indaba Hotel, Johannesburg, 29th- 30th March.
•    Omenya, A. (2006) A thin veil of protection: fragility of informal tenure in Nairobi and Johannesburg. Paper presented at an international conference on: Homelessness a Global Perspective, New Delhi, India 9th – 13th January 2006.

•    Omenya, A. & Talukhaba, A. (2005) Bottlenecks of access to housing finance by the low-income in Kenya and South Africa. Paper presented at an international conference on Construction Industry Development (CIDB Conference) Johannesburg, 9th-11th October. Published conference proceedings, pp 129-139. (Awarded prize for best paper).

•    Makachia, P., Talukhaba, A. & Omenya, A. (2005) A cost modelling design strategy for dweller-initiated transformations in urban housing. Paper presented at an international conference on Construction Industry Development (CIDB Conference) Johannesburg, 9th-11th October. Published conference proceedings, pp 373-388.

•    Omenya, A. (2004) Myths and realities of segregation in post-apartheid human settlements in Johannesburg. Paper presented (in absentia) at an International working-conference on Countering Urban Segregation, Amsterdam, 14th-15th October 2004.

•    Omenya, A. (2004) Housing networks in different political economies: the cases of Ivory Park, Johannesburg and Dandora, Kenya. Paper presented at the National Conference on Housing in the Next Decade: Quo Vadis? Cape Town, 3rd  to 6th  October 2004.

•    Omenya, A., Huchzermeyer, M., Kihato M. & Berrisford, S. (2004) Slum upgrading in the complex context of policy change: the case of Nairobi. Paper presented at an international working conference on: the Perpetuating Challenge of Informal Settlements, 6th – 8th October, Johannesburg, 2004.

•    Omenya A. (2003) Theoretical conceptualisations of urban segregation and their relevance to housing in post-apartheid South Africa. A paper presented in a conference on Gated Communities: Building Social Division or Safer Communities?  University of Glasgow, Scotland, September

•    Omenya, A. (2003) A network approach to understanding the role of the market and the state in housing: the cases of Nairobi, Kenya and Johannesburg South Africa. Paper presented in an international conference on Housing in the 21st Century, Challenges and Commitments, in Hong Kong,  2nd-4th February, 2004.

•    Omenya, A. (2003) Potential professional, technical, regulatory, institutional and training conflicts and opportunities opened through the People’s Housing Process (PHP) policy shift in South Africa. Paper presented at the National PHP Review from the 1st to 2nd December 2003, in Burgess Park Hotel, Pretoria, South Africa.

•    Omenya, A. (2003) Urbanisation and housing challenges: cities in Africa. Paper presented at an international conference on the Urbanisation and Housing Challenges in Africa, from the 6th to 8th October 2003, in Sandton, Johannesburg.

•    Omenya A. (2002) Sustainable Self-help Housing in South Africa. A paper presented at an international conference on Housing and Urban Development in Sub-Saharan Africa in Accra, Ghana, June.

•    Omenya, A. (2009) Nairobi: Re-Reading the City through the Lens of the 2007 Post-Election Violence. Paper Presented at an international Workshop in Basel Switzerland, 10th to 14th March 2008. Nairobi 24 Project.

•    Omenya, A. (2008) An analysis of architectural and urban Interventions in Nairobi. Paper Presented at an international Workshop in Basel Switzerland, 10th to 14th March 2008.

•    COHRE (2004) Listening to the Poor: Housing Rights in Nairobi Kenya. Contributors: Langford, M., Omenya, A., Huchzermeyer, M., Gaye, M. & Kihato, M. (Published) Geneva: COHRE.

•    Omenya A. (2001), A Building is a Man - the Man has Been Shot in the Streets of Nairobi, The Architect 1(1), April.

•    Omenya A. (2001), Buildings Breathe and Eat, The Architect 1(3), September.