RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS Peer Reviewed Journals 1. 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 2. 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) 3. Omenya, A. (Forthcoming) Bottlenecks in access to low-income housing finance: a comparison of Kenya and South Africa. Development Southern Africa 4. Omenya, A. (Forthcoming) Networks for collective action towards low-income housing: a case study of groups in Ivory Park, Johannesburg. Development Southern Africa

Book Chapters 1. Omenya A. (2002) Which Way Self-help Housing in South Africa? School of Architecture and Planning Yearbook 2002. Wits University, Johannesburg, pp 103 120. 2. 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.

Published International Conference Proceedings 1. Omenya (2007) Network analysis for resources towards low-income housing. Paper to be presented at an international conference on Environmental Design, Urbanism and Informality, supported by Holcim Foundation in Hong Kong, April 2007. 2. Obonyo, E & Omenya, A. (2006) Agent-based modelling of urban sanitation: informal settlements in Nairobi. Paper to be presented at the Joint International Conference on Computing and Decision Making in Civil and Building Engineering Montreal, Canada, 14th- 16th June. 3. 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.

4. 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. 5. 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. 6. 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). 7. 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. 8. Omenya, A. (2004) Myths and realities of segregation in post-apartheid human settlements in Johannesburg. Paper presented at an International working-conference on Countering Urban Segregation, Amsterdam, 14th-15th October 2004. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. Omenya, A. (2004) Is HIV/AIDS museum probable? Outline shifts in architectural thinking in the design of museums. Paper presented at an international conference on Conceptualising the AIDS Museum: Commemoration or celebration? Wits University 29th October 2nd November 2004. Wits University Johannesburg 12. 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 13. 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. 14. Omenya, A. (2003) Potential professional, technical, regulatory, institutional and training conflicts and opportunities opened through the Peoples 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. 15. 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. 16. 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. Published articles in professional journals 1. Omenya A. (2001), A Building is a Man - the Man has Been Shot in the Streets of Nairobi, The Architect 1(1), April. 2. Omenya A. (2001), Buildings Breathe and Eat, The Architect 1(3), September.

Published Technical Reports 1. Omenya A. (ed) (2002/3) Designing, Measuring and Implementing Sustainable Urban Development for the City of Johannesburg (draft) a collaborative research between the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Chalmers University, Sweden. 2. Huchzermeyer, M. & Omenya, A. (eds) (2004) Housing Definitions for Republic of South Africa. Directorate of Policy and Programme Monitoring, National Department of Housing, Pretoria, South Africa. 3. Alfred Omenya (2004) Participation and Information. Chapter 4 in Langford, M. (ed.) (2004) Listening to the Poor: Housing Rights in Nairobi. COHRE, Geneva. 4. Alfred Omenya (2004) Prevention of Abuses of Power. Chapter 5 in Langford, M. (ed.) (2004) Listening to the Poor: Housing Rights in Nairobi. COHRE, Geneva.

Applied Research (on going) Dandora Landfill Gas Project, with CNA (2006-2007) supported by the Dutch Development Agency, HIVOs Bio-diesel: production, policy and technical hitches in East Africa (Eco-Build Africa and Sync Consult, Johannesburg) Tracking of the UNFCCC process on behalf of Kenyan civil society organisations.