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ACS
ACS
At the core of the IUC is the African Centre for Sustainable Cities Studies (ACS), which serves as the backbone for the project. The ACS is established to:
Build capacity in education and training, research, innovation, and societal outreach to generate solutions to Dar es Salaam’s urban development challenges. This will contribute to the city's sustainable growth in alignment with the SDGs, especially SDG 11.
Realize ARU’s ambition to become an internationally recognized, inclusive, and civic university that addresses societal and environmental problems.
More information can be found on the ACS website.
Contact
Contact
ACS Director
ACS Director
Dr. Beatrice Tarimo
Assistant Local Coordinator
Assistant Local Coordinator
Dr. Yasin Senkondo
ACS Coordinator for Education and Training
ACS Coordinator for Education and Training
Atupelye Weston Komba PhD
atupelye.komba@aru.ac.tz or atupelyek@gmail.com
Dr. Atupelye Komba is a lecturer and researcher in the field of environmental science development at Ardhi University. She holds BSc. in Geoinformatics from Ardhi University, MSc. in Environmental Science and PhD in Environmental Science Development both from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. Her research interests broadly focus on applications of remote sensing and GIS in developing indicators for monitoring environment changes to facilitate decision-making. Lately, she has been using satellite imagery to investigate the ecosystems changes in the surroundings of protected areas in East Africa.
Publication link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Atupelye-Komba
ACS Coordinator of the Participatory and Interdisciplinary Research Unit
ACS Coordinator of the Participatory and Interdisciplinary Research Unit
Dr. Lukuba N. Sweya
lukuswe@gmail.com / lukuba.sweya@aru.ac.tz
Dr. Lukuba Sweya is an academician and researcher with PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr. Sweya’s research interest is on disaster resilience for environmental systems like water supply, wastewater, sanitation, and drainage. Sweya argues that environmental systems’ challenges can be addressed through a multidimensional approach encompassing technical, organizational, social, economic, and environmental aspects. He believes that resilience assessment enhances sound decisions on budgeting and resources prioritization for resilience building. He argues further that smartness and resilience are interdependent concepts that infrastructure developers have to critically investigate and consider for sustainable development. Sweya has published over 15 journal articles and works as a reviewer for various journals in the field of environmental systems resilience and management. One of his research works was recognized as a “Highly Commended” Interdisciplinary research in the 2021 Research Impact Awards from Emerald Publishing. In 2019, Sweya contributed to the UNDRR Global Assessment Report (GAR) for disasters risk reduction. Moreover, he has participated in national and international academic conferences and symposiums and coordinated several short course trainings at Ardhi University.
Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AAX-1478-2021
ACS Coordinator of the Inclusive Societal Outreach Unit
ACS Coordinator of the Inclusive Societal Outreach Unit
Dr. Deodatus Patrick Shayo
dpshayo@gmail.com / deodatus.shayo@aru.ac.tz
Deodatus Patrick Shayo (PhD) is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Economics and Social Studies, School of Spatial Planning and Social Sciences, Ardhi University, and Vice-Chair, International Political Science Association (IPSA), Research Committee (RC10) – Electronic Democracy, IPSA-RC10-Electronic Democracy. He holds a B.A with Education and M.A in Political Science and Public Administration both from the University of Dar es Salaam, and a PhD in Political Science from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Muenster, Germany. His PhD research focused on crowdsourcing and digitalization of democratic processes. His key areas of research interests include: community-based crowdsourcing/ community monitoring, digital engagement/ participation, smart local governance, crowdmonitoring smart city services and related aspects of inclusive and sustainable digital communities.
On-going project: Community Based Monitoring (CBM) in Bagamoyo, under Sub-Project 6: Gender and Participation (2022-2027), Vlir-uos Project.
Publications link: Google Scholar/Deodatus Shayo
You can find all the information about the PhD and Master Students by clicking on the title.
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