WITS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (SoAP)

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WITS UNIVERSITYSCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND
PLANNING (SoAP)

• Human Settlements-related
• SHORT COURSES

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The Wits School of Architecture and Planning
sees Human Settlements holistically offers the
following short courses

• SOCIAL AND TECHNICAL SUSTAINABILITY
• INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS UPGRADING
• HUMAN SETTLEMENTS AND HOUSING THEORY,
  CONCEPTS AND POLICY

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• HOUSING FINANCE AND THE LAW
• MANAGEMENT OF EXISTING HOUSING STOCK

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• All courses are accredited by various committees
  within Wits University, incl. the Academic
  Planning Office
• Short Course cost R10 000 per person minimum
  10, maximum 25 participants per course
• All logistical arrangements are professionally
• handled by Wits Enterprise (WE) , which is
  dedicated to and vastly
• experienced in the running of Short Courses
  via their Professional
• Development hub.
• Delivery is by means of face to face and highly
  interactive lectures.
• Wits Enterprise also conducts course and lecturer
  evaluations as a
• matter of course.

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OUTCOMES

• Detailed outcomes for each course are available
  upon request, but in general, participants should
  be able to
• Interpret fundamental concepts of sustainable
  human settlements
• Understand and cite theories, concepts and ideas
  pertaining to the subject matter

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• Apply theories and concepts to housing
  inadequacies
• Describe housing policies promoted by various
  countries and international institutions
• Link policy and practice

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• These are stand-alone courses (at NQF level 8),
• but could also count towards a Masters degree
• i.e. Master of the Built Environment Housing
• Ts Cs apply!

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Admission requirements

• A Bachelors degree in architecture, engineering,
  planning, sociology or similar fields
• or
• A Matric 3 years professional experience in
  human settlement-related professions

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SOCIAL AND TECHNICAL SUSTAINABILITY

• The course aims to equip students with the
  necessary awareness/understanding of the various
  dimensions of sustainability environmental,
  economic and social.

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The course is structured into two blocks

• Block A focuses on social aspects of the
  sustainability concept
• the aim is to equip students with the knowledge,
  analytical tools, and approaches to community
  engagement, to develop and argue for socially
  appropriate housing responses.

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• Block B focuses on technical aspects.
• The environmental/resource dimension will
  provide the framework for understanding human
  settlements policy and practice in response to
  environmental and policy constraints.

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INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS (IS) UPGRADING

• The course aims to
• equip students with the necessary understanding
  of informal settlements as human settlements, and
  
• frame IS upgrading with the understanding that
  various strands of policy (financial, regulatory,
  construction, participation, planning) need in
  order to speak to this.

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The course is structured into two blocks

• The first block focuses on understanding informal
  settlements as complex human settlements and
  comparing different approaches to them

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• The second block introduces various approaches to
  informal settlement upgrading in South Africa and
  related policy and practice.
• The content involves the analysis, synthesis and
  application in the specific area of participatory
  informal settlement upgrading.

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HUMAN SETTLEMENTS AND HOUSING THEORY,
CONCEPTS AND POLICY

• The course introduces participants to the local
  and international literature on core aspects of
  housing.
• Participants are expected to
• engage critically with existing discourses on
  housing policy, both local and international.
• be able to draw on contrasting policies from
  other countries, while being able to reflect on
  the political, economic and social conditions
  that allowed these to be developed in their
  particular context.

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• The course encourages a commitment to addressing
  the housing crisis.
• case studies from other countries are brought
  into the discussion in order to explore
  alternative scenarios.

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HOUSING FINANCE AND THE LAW

• The course aims to equip students with the
  necessary understanding of the various dimensions
  of housing finance, and to rights and legislation
  that apply to housing.

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• The course deals in depth with the evolution of
  housing policy, housing rights and legislation in
  South Africa, particularly since 1994.
• This is placed in an international context,
  allowing us to explore both the broader global
  developments from which South Africa is no longer
  isolated, and to explore alternatives to the
  South African scenario.

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• While the course seeks to link housing finance to
  questions of rights and legislation, and how
  these jointly shape the built environment, the
  course to some extent is divided into two
  separate sections
• The first block deals with housing finance.
• The second focuses on rights and legislation.

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MANAGEMENT OF EXISTING HOUSING STOCK

• The aim of the course is to equip students to
  deal with the key issues of how to manage and
  maintain rental housing stock and how to
  undertake client services.
• The course introduces students to the basic tools
  and techniques for running and managing existing
  housing stock.

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• The course will highlight the basic principles
  and processes to be followed in managing
  residential stock from demand assessment,
  marketing, allocations, leasing, maintenance,
  tenant relationship management and customer
  service to the policies, human resources and
  organisational management required.
• Current issues and debates in the field, both in
  South Africa and internationally will also be
  addressed.

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The course is structured into two blocks

• The first block focuses on the definitions of
  property and facilities management the
  development of housing property management
  history perspective from the UK, South
  Africa, and
• demand assessment, marketing, waiting lists,
  allocations, lease and rental administration and
  the legal aspects of tenant relationship
  management.

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• The second block introduces rent administration,
  setting affordability rent collection
  managing empty properties dealing with arrears
  eviction, tenant participation, customer service
  complaints
• case studies on the tenant landlord
  relationship will be addressed how to organise
  the property management function and property
  maintenance.

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An additional short course is the BASIC
COURSE IN PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
TECHNIQUES, THEORIES AND METHODS

• The purpose of the course is to equip students
  with the necessary understanding of participatory
  approaches, the relative institutional models and
  organisational methods.
• The course aims to provide students with a basic
  understanding and knowledge of participatory
  methodologies, understanding potentials and
  criticalities, especially through practical
  training, simulations and exercises.
• this is a non credit bearing course

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• The main aim is to enable participants to plan an
  entire participatory community development
  programme,
• selecting the most suitable approaches and
  understanding the different phasing and
  techniques to be used for a specific case/context.

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The course is structured into three blocks

• The first block focuses on understanding of
  community participation, from the theoretical
  foundations to the practical approaches,
• giving an overview of different types of
  participatory methods and some recent innovations.

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• The second block introduces various approaches
  and related institutional models, relative
  policies and their linkage to practice.

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• The third block is practical training in the form
  of 3 workshops, focusing on basic aspects of
  practising community participatory development
  through a series of exercises.
• Participants will also learn how to identify,
  select and perform different participatory
  methods and tools, depending on their
  implications in terms of different outcomes,
  involvement and role of different stakeholders.

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• (this is a stand-alone practical training course
  at NQF level 5 and does not count towards a
  Masters degree)
• Admission requirements for the Basic
  Participatory Course
• A minimum of 2 years professional experience in
  human settlement-related professions.

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Allied Short Courses

• In terms of an holistic approach to Human
  Settlements, the following courses will also be
  offered

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• Climate Change and Towns
• Drought Management
• Storm Mitigation
• Flood Mitigation (Structural and Non/Structural)
• Wildfires Mitigation
• Technological Hazards Mitigation
• Pest Mitigation
• Mitigation Management
• Landslide Mitigation

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(These courses are currently in the process of
being approved within Wits University). They are
non credit bearing (for now!) These SCs are
pitched at NQF level 7 Admission reqs.
Matric relevant experience .
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Detailed outcomes for each course are available
upon request, but in general, participants should
be able to

• Understand and manage the theory and practice of
  Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management and
  apply this at all spatial and other levels
• Plan, organise and implement local mitigation
  plans.

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Leadership for Sustainable Energy Transitions

• is a peer to peer, trans disciplinary course (so
  does not have an NQF rating)
• Is run by The Global Change and Sustainability
  Research Institute (GCSRI) of the University of
  the Witwatersrand

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• This course will collaboratively, with programme
  participants, build and develop
• on leadership competencies that deal with
  leadership for sustainable energy transitions.
• The three main pillars of the programme are
• Leadership in energy transitions
• Unlearning for transitions Related resource
  persons, tools and practices
• Substantiating on current understanding on
  unlearning for transitions, with neuroscience as
  the key approach

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CVs of Facilitators and/or Presenters

• full CVs are available on request

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Prof Marie Huchzermeyer

• QUALIFICATIONS
• - Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Sociology,
  University of Cape Town (2000).
• - Master in City Planning and Urban Design (with
  distinction), University of Cape Town (1994).
• - Bachelor in Landscape Architecture, University
  of Pretoria (1987).
• 3. RECENT HONOURS AND AWARDS
• - B3 Rating (considerable international
  recognition by peers for high quality and impact
  of recent research outputs) from the National
  Research Foundation (NRF) in 2008 and 2014.
• - Grant from the ANFASA Grant Scheme for Authors
  (AGSA), Association of Non-Fiction Authors of
  South Africa (2009).
• - Institute of Housing of South Africa (Gauteng
  Provincial Branch and National) Housing Special
  Merit Awards (2004).

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• 4. CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS
• - Network-Association of European Researchers on
  Urbanisation in the South N-AERUS
• - International Research Group on Law and Urban
  Space IRGLUS
• - Association of Non-Fiction Authors of South
  Africa ANFASA
• - Since 2003 Board member of the urban
  development NGO Planact
• - Editorial board of the journals Urban Forum,
  and Sub/Urban (Zeitschrift fuer kritische
  Stadtforschung)
• 5. PRESENT APPOINTMENT
• Professor, Convener of the interdisciplinary MBE
  Housing, School of Architecture and Planning,
  Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment,
  University of the Witwatersrand.

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Employment history
Dates Organisation Appointment
Jan 2001-date School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor (since 2005), Professor (since 2011)
Mar-Dec. 2000 Faculty of the Built Environment, South Bank University Research fellow (peri-urban transformations)
Jan 1995-Dec. 1999 Consultancies/contract research Isandla Institute, Cape Town Division of Building Technology, CSIR Building Design Group, Swaziland School of Architecture and Planning, University of Cape Town Division of Transport, CSIR Environmental Monitoring Group, Cape Town. Review of South African housing policy debate informal settlement intervention low income housing urban integration sustainable housing.
Jan. 1988-Dec. 1992 Landscape architecture offices in Cape Town and Berlin Assistant landscape architect landscape architect
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Dr Margot Rubin

• 2009 2013 PhD -Urban Planning and Political
  Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
• 2002 2005 MA Urban Geography, University of
  Pretoria
• 1999 January 1999 December, BA, Honours in
  Geography and Environmental Studies, University
  of the Witwatersrand
• 1996 1998 Bachelor of Arts (Geography and
  Philosophy), University of the Witwatersrand

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• 2. Experience
• January 2009- Current Independent Development
  Consultant and Policy Researcher Sessional
  lecturing and post-graduate supervision at the
  University of the Witwatersrand Housing Policy
  training for government officials
• January 2006- December 2008 Researcher, and
  Research Co-ordinator, Centre for Urban and Built
  Environment Studies (CUBES) Wits University,
• August 2004 December 2005 Researcher and
  research dissemination officer, Social Housing
  Foundation
• February 2004 August 2004 Researcher Centre
  for Development and Enterprise

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Mr Neil Klug

• National Diploma in Town and Regional Planning,
  Natal Technikon, 1983
• Masters Degree in Town and Regional Planning,
  Natal University, 1991
• Masters Degree in Urban Design, Oxford-Brookes
  University (UK), 1995
• Diploma in Project Management, University of
  Pretoria, 1997
• Corporate Member of the South African Council of
  Town and Regional Planners
• Corporate Member of the South African Planning
  Institute

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• Neil Klug is an urban planner and designer who
  has over 24 years consulting experience and is
  the director of Neil Klug TRP (SA).
• he is a permanent major-time (80) senior
  lecturer at the University of Witwatersrands
  Planning School and has 18 years lecturing
  experience.

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Neil has strong experience in the management of
planning processes. His areas of specialisation
include Integrated Development Plans, Spatial
Development Frameworks, housing policy plans,
detailed spatial layout design (incorporating
informal settlement upgrading) the formulation
of land use plans, urban design, and feasibility
studies. Over the past five years he has
published 6 articles and chapters in local and
international journals with colleagues in the
areas of informal settlement upgrading,
inclusionary housing and spatial planning.
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• BROAD RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
• Self-employed / Senior Lecturer (2002 Present)
  80 University of the Witwatersrand and 20 Neil
  Klug TRP (SA)
• Self-employed (1999 2002), Neil Klug TRP (SA)
  part time lecturer at University KwaZulu Natal
• Senior project manager (1996 1999), Scott
  Wilson Planning Development Resources part
  time lecturer at University of KwaZulu Natal
• Town Planner (1990 1996), Seneque Maughan Brown
  and Associates
• Town Planning technician (1980 1983), Vincent
  Leggo Associates

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• SELECTED PROFESSIONAL WORK OVER PAST 10 YEARS
• 2014 - Preparation of teaching materials for NUSP
  for Informal Settlement Upgrading.
• 2013 Contributed to a Supply Side Housing
  Strategy for De Beers Consolidated Mines
• 2012 Contributed to a Supply Side Housing
  Strategy for ESKOM
• 2009 Appointed by national treasury,
  ISRDP-Neighbourhood Development Grant Programme
  Selection Process.
• 2008 - Appointed by the National Department of
  Housing to review the BNG policy on informal
  settlement upgrading
• 2006/07 - Prepared the Umdoni Municipality
  Housing Plan
• 2005/06 - ILO Employment Aspects for Slum
  Upgrading Study Undertook a study of a Peoples
  Housing Process project as a case study,
• 2004 2008 Khulula Housing Layout Project

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• SHORT COURSE TEACHING
• Training of municipal housing officials, 2014
  Appointed by Shisaka to train housing officials
  in a course entitled An Introduction to Housing
  Policy for Housing Administrators, funded by
  ABSA, and the French Development Bank. Now have
  trained about 380 local, district, metropolitan
  and provincial government officials country wide
  on this course.
• Training of municipal housing officials,
  2009-2013 Appointed by Shisaka to train housing
  officials in a course entitled An Introduction
  to Housing Policy for Housing Administrators,
  funded by ABSA, and the French Development Bank.
• Special Lecture on Site Analysis and Seminar,
  2009 Conducted a special lecture on an analysis
  of a specific site in South Africa and gave a
  general seminar on planning in SA for the
  University of Sheffields Department of Urban
  Planning, in Sheffield, UK.
• .

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• Preparation of Course Material for a Housing
  training Course, 2008 Appointed by Shisaka to
  prepare Town planning aspects for a housing
  course for municipal officials funded by ABSA.
• Training the Trainers on the DPLGs IDP Training
  Manual 2007 Prepared course material and
  undertook training of 21 potential IDP trainers.
  This was undertaken for GTZ.
• Integrated Development Planning Short Course
  2007 Prepared and presented SETA accredited
  five day short courses on Integrated Development
  Planning at MXA. Three courses were taught
  during 2007, and were attended by approximately
  45 delegates made up of municipal and provincial
  officials

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• Integrated Development Planning Short Course
  2006 Prepared and presented together with
  Professor Phillip Harrison a two day short course
  on Integrated Development Planning for the
  Development Bank of South Africa. The course was
  attended by 21 delegates made up of bank
  officials and some municipal officials.
• Spatial Development Framework Workshop 2005,
  Prepared and facilitated a national workshop on
  Implementing Spatial Planning for Government, for
  Trade Conference International. The workshop was
  attended by 34 public and private sector
  participants from around the country.

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Dr. Costanza la Mantia

• EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
• Postdoc Fellowship, University of the
  Witwatersrand (South Africa), July 2013-present.
  Research topics Urban Resilience for
  Sustainable Development, Resilient Governance,
  Resilient Urban Form, Informality and Resilience.
• PhD in Urban and Regional Planning, University
  of Palermo (Italy), 2010 Research topic
  Strategic tools, Governance and Participation
  in Planning, dissertation title Sharing the
  Future. Urban Strategic Tools and Inclusive
  Processes in Planning, 2007-2009.
• International Postgraduate Master in Integrated
  Relational Tourism and Regional Planning,
  University of Palermo (Italy) Helwan University
  (Egypt), 2008.
• Professional Degree in Architecture, cum laude,
  University of Palermo (Italy), 2005 Thesis
  New operative models and complex tools for
  urban and regional planning from
  autopoiesis of living systems to autopoiesis of
  urban and regional systems.

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• Senior Lecturer, University of the
  Witwatersrand (South Africa), School of
  Architecture Planning, August 2014-present.
  Courses
• Contemporary Design Environmental Issues in
  South Africa, 2014. Urban design course focusing
  on participatory informal settlement upgrading.
• Senior Lecturer, Kigali Institute of Science and
  Technology (Rwanda), Faculty of Architecture
  Environmental Design, 2012-2013. Courses
• Urban Ecology Slum Upgrading Design Studio,
  2013.
• Participatory Informal Areas Upgrading Design
  Studio, 2012.
• Urban Anthropology, 2012.
• Research Methodologies, 2013.

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Research Affiliate, Bartlett School - University
College London (UK), Department Planning Unit,
2012. Researcher within the collaborative
research project The Heuristics of Mapping Urban
Environmental Change, a comparative research on
bottom-up mapping practices between London,
Milan, and Cairo. Organization of research
workshop symposium Cairo Mapping Informality,
in collaboration with Megawra-Built Environment
Collective, Cairo. Research Board Member,
Milan Polytechnic (Italy), Laboratory of
Development Cooperation, Department of
Architecture Planning, 2008-2010. Bilateral
research-action project Living in the City of the
Dead, Cairo.
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Various Guest Lectures Milan
Polytechnic DiAP (Italy), guest lecturer in the
seminar Cairos Informal Areas in
Post-Revolution the Future of the City of the
Dead amongst plans and expectations,
2011. Milan Polytechnic DiAP (Italy), guest
lecturer in the seminar Re-framing Egyptian
Planning System, 2011. Milan Polytechnic DiAP
(Italy), guest lecturer in the seminar Strategic
Planning and Governance for Cairos Development,
2010. American University in Cairo (Egypt),
Faculty of Mass Communication, guest lecturer in
the seminar inquiring the Community Complexity of
the City of the dead, 2010.
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American University in Cairo (Egypt) Milan
Poytechnic (Italy), coordination and tutoring of
the international workshop Inside the City of the
Dead, Cairo, 2010. Ain Shams University,
Cairo (Egypt), Faculty of Engineering, Design
Architecture, guest lecturer in the seminar
Approaching and Representing a Complex Urban
Environment, 2009. Teaching Assistant,
University of Palermo (Italy), 2005-2008.
Courses Architectural Urban Design,
2005-2008.
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Dr Sarah Charlton

• PhD in Town and Regional Planning, 2013,
  University of Sheffield, UK
• Master of Architecture (Housing), 1994,
  University of Natal, Durban
• Bachelor of Architecture, 1989, University of the
  Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
• Relevant employment history
• Senior Lecturer (2003present) in the Planning
  Programme, School of Architecture and Planning,
  Wits.
• Project Manager, (April 1997Nov 2001) Metro
  Housing Unit, Durban Metropolitan Council.
• Senior Project Leader (March 1994- March 1997)
  Built Environment Support Group (BESG).

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• Selected professional work
• 2014 - Contributed to the development of a
  training course on informal settlement upgrading,
  for the National Upgrading Support Programme
  (NUSP), Department of Human Settlements (with
  Shisaka)
• 2012 - Member of the team researching the
  conceptual basis of the future low-income housing
  approach, for the Department of Human Settlements
  
• 2010 - Member of the team developing the Bad
  Buildings Strategy for the City of Johannesburg
  (with team leader Tanya Zack).
• 2009 - Member of the team formulating the Quick
  Guide to Housing in Africa, for UN Habitat
  through the African Centre for Cities (with Tanya
  Zack and Melinda Silverman)
• 2004 2005 - Formulation of the eThekwini Inner
  City Housing Strategy, as part of the inner city
  Spatial Development Framework, for the Inner
  Ethekwini Regeneration and Urban Management
  Programme) (with Joanne Lees)
• 2003 - Review of the National Department of
  Housings Programmes, Policies and Practices
  1994-2003, for the National Department of Housing
  (with Melinda Silverman and Stephen Berrisford)

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Dr Brian Boshoff

• Fulbright Scholar
• 2010. Ph.D. in the Environmental Design and
  Planning Program(me) at Virginia Polytechnic
  Institute and State University, aka Virginia
  Tech, Virginia, USA.
• 1989. M.Sc. (T.R.P.)
• (Town and Regional Planning/Development
  Planning),
• University of the Witwatersrand.
• 1984. H. Dip. P.D.A.
• (Higher Diploma in Planning for Developing Areas)
  (DISTINCTION Development Issues).
• University of the Witwatersrand.
• 1981. B.Soc.Sc. (Three majors ECONOMICS III,
  BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION III and PSYCHOLOGY III).
  
• Rhodes University.
• Diploma of the Institute of Organization and
  Methods.

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Current and Previous Employment

• Currently Full time Senior Lecturer and SHORT
  COURSE CONVENOR in the School of Architecture and
  Planning, Wits University (16 years experience)
• Previously
• Development Planner and Environmental Specialist
  at the Development Bank of Southern Africa
  (DBSA). Founder member of DBSAs Environmental
  Unit. Eight years experience.
• Trainee in Environmental Management, and
  Organization and Methods/Work study at the
  Electricity Supply Commission. Two Years
  Experience.
• Part-time lecturer Dept. of Town and Regional
  Planning, University of the Witwatersrand.
  Seven years experience.
• Instructor Virginia Tech (USA) Urban Affairs
  and Planning Programme.

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• Reviewer/Associate Editor The International
  Journal for Environmental, Cultural, Economic
  and Social Sustainability
• Reviewer for DBSA publication A DBSA
  Perspective on Sustainable Development
• Observer Local Agenda 21 National Network
  Establishment of National Steering Cttee.
• Past Member of the International Association for
  Impact Assessment
• Consultant (e.g., Evaluation for Danish
  Universities Consortium on Environment and
  Development and UN HABITAT).
• Facilitator and presenter of numerous short
  courses on Disaster Risk Management
• In Southern and East Africa

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• Finalist for the University of the Witwatersrand
  Vice Chancellors INDIVIDUAL Teaching Award
  1999/2000,
• Nominated again for the University Of The
  Witwatersrand Vice Chancellors INDIVIDUAL
  Teaching Award in 2002.
• Nominated for the University of the Witwatersrand
  Vice Chancellors TEAM Teaching
  Award in both 2008 and 2009.

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Prof. Daniel Irurah

• (PhD, M. Arch, MUP, B.Arch (Hons))
• Architect (Registered - S. Africa and Kenya)
• Policy analyst/planner (Urban, Energy,
  Environmental and Housing)

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• CURRENT RELEVANT POSITION(S) AND ROLES
• Associate Professor (Sustainable Architecture,
  Cities Settlements), School of Architecture
  Planning, University of the Witwatersrand (WITS)
• Programme Leader Wits-GIZ CL Leadership for
  Sustainable Energy Transitions June 2013 to
  January 2014 A trans-disciplinary peer-to-peer
  learning and knowledge co-creation initiative
  based on competencies in self-development for
  collective agency/action and deepening subject
  matter understanding.
• Convenor/Anchor-Lecturer Masters in Architecture
  (Sustainable and Energy Efficient Cities SEEC)
  newly launched at Wits (School of Architecture
  Planning), 2011 (ongoing) as one of the
  deliverables under PREA (Promoting Renewable
  Energy for Africa) Programme, 2006 - 2009.

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• Bio-fuels Africa (under Syn-Consult Africa)
  Incubating private sector initiatives to catalyse
  grass-roots bio-fuels eco-enterprises (with
  distributed generation as the primary
  platform/model)
• Member, Adjudication Panel SAIA-AfriSam Awards
  for Sustainable Architecture in South Africa
  (2009/2010, 2011/2012 and 2013/2014)
• Member, Jury Panel Holcim Awards for Sustainable
  Construction, Cycle 4, Africa Middle East Region
• External Examiner Faculty of the Built
  Environment, Uganda Martyrs University, Uganda
• Member, Reference Group State of the Cities
  Report 2016, South African Cities Network (SACN)

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• RELEVANT PREVIOUS POSITIONS (RECENT)
• Member, Board of Directors and Chair of Education
  Sub-Committee, Green Building Council of South
  Africa (GBCSA) 2011 2013
• Visiting Professor University of Stellenbosch
  and Sustainability Institute (Stellenbosch, South
  Africa).
• Sustainability Consultant and Co-Administrator
  South Bank International Architectural
  Competition
• Project Leader Holcim Awards for Sustainable
  Construction, Africa Middle East Region (First
  Cycle 2004 2006, Second Cycle 2006 - 2009)
• Member of the Reference Group Sustainable
  Cities South African Cities Network (SACN)

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Dr Krisno Nimpuno

• 1960 Propaedeutic Exam Architecture, Delft
  University of Technology, The Netherlands
• 1962 Candidaat I, b.i., (B. Arch.), Delft
  University of Technology, TUD, Delft, The
  Netherlands
• 1965 Arkitekt examen), (M. Arch.), Technical
  University, CTH, Gothenburg, Sweden,
• 1971 Teknisk Licentiat, (MPhil), Technical
  Doctorate, Hospital Planning, Royal Institute of
  Technology KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
• 1972 Nordic School of Public Health, NHH,
  Gothenburg, Sweden
• Certificate of Public Health, Environmental
  Hygiene
• 1974 Nordic School of Public Health, NHH,
  Gothenburg, Sweden
• Certificate of Public Health, Water Hygiene
• Languages Indonesian, English, Swedish,
  Dutch, Portuguese, French, German, some Swahili.

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• Dr Nimpuno has forty years of professional and
  academic experience as architect, planner and
  public servant.
• Specializing in risk management, housing,
  infrastructure, health buildings and
  environmental planning, he has worked as a
  consultant in Europe, North America, Asia, and
  Africa and on housing programs in Sweden and
  throughout East Africa.
• He has served as expert for UNDP, NORAD,
  IDA/World Bank, UNESCO and UNCHS projects,
  ranging from rural development programs, school
  planning, refugee settlement planning, sites and
  services schemes, slum upgrading, and
  environmental health planning.

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• He coordinated the UNESCO project to develop
  training materials on disaster management. As
  IDA/ World Bank / UN project manager and N0RAD
  expert he has been concerned with the
  formulation, planning and implementation of
  national policies.
• He has been stationed for government assignments
  in Indonesia, Sweden, Canada, Tanzania, Kenya,
  and Mozambique and has held academic positions in
  Sweden, Indonesia, Thailand and the Netherlands.

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• He has worked on research and consultant
  assignments in Botswana, Zambia, Ethiopia, Egypt,
  Thailand, Vietnam, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde,
  Mozambique, Burma, Colombia, Sweden, South Africa
  and Portugal.
• He has been involved in pioneering modern low
  cost sanitation methods and has organized several
  international gatherings on this topic.
• He has a wide experience in environmental
  monitoring and sustainable development planning.
  His multi-disciplinary work on disaster and
  emergency reduction explores bridges between
  disaster risk management and development.

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