Staff Profile

Dr. Ally Namangaya (PhD) is a School Dean and registered land use planner and a senior lecturer. He holds a PhD in spatial planning, MSc in Urban and Regional planning and Management and BSc in Urban and Regional Planning. His areas of expertise are natural resources management, conflict management, geostatistical modelling, applied remote sensing, and geographical information systems, land use planning and socio-economic studies. Dr Ally has extensively published in peer reviewed journals in areas of natural resource conservation, urban planning and local economic development. His recent research is on linkages between urban spatial development and governance, economy and climate change resilience;

Linking rural communities in tourism value chains; development of spatial databases for revenue enhancement in urban areas and land tenure mapping for peripheral communities. Of recent Dr Ally is supervising PhD research project in areas of small town development and land conflict management. Dr Ally has participated in coordinating research project including an ongoing five-year research project on the quest for alternative urban planning models for small towns in Tanzania which was funded by SIDA.

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Dr. Joel Msami (PhD) is a Head and Lecturer at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. His area of competencies includes Land Use Planning, Regional Planning, Urban Design, Urban Management, Detailed and General Planning Schemes and Urban Renewal. He pursued his PhD in Urban Management with specific focus on the Location and Accessibility of Private Health Care Facilities in Rapidly Urbanizing Cities, the case of Dar es Salaam. Dr. Msami is a registered urban planner by the National Town Planners Registration Board. He was actively participated in the development of Curriculum for PhD Programme with coursework and Dissertation at Ardhi University. He has been engaged in various research and consultancy services country wide.   Currently, Dr. Msami is one of the team members under PhD and None PhD Research Programme on Management of Small Towns in Tanzania

This research is under SIDA Funding.

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Aldo Lupala is a Professor in the School of Spatial Planning and Social Sciences. He has wide experiences in Urban Land Management. He was a former Dean, School of Architecture and Design, Former Director, University Consultancy Units, Former Manager of ARU Publishing Centre and former Head of Urban and Regional Planning Department. He is a seasoned Consultant and Contracted researcher in among others on alleviation of environmental and human settlements conflicts for the Ngorongoro Conservation Authority and Climate change impact adaptation and mitigation and emerging conflicts between adjoining settlements and natural resources for SIDA. He is the Vice president of ARU Convocation and worked in various Boards such as Town Planners Registration Board and MKURABITA in the capacity of Vice Chairman.

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Professor Tumsifu Jonas Nnkya (PhD) a registered urban planner and is an associate professor of urban planning at Ardhi University in where he has served for the past 36 years except for nearly six years (October 2008 to June 2014) when he served as director of housing in the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, United Republic of Tanzania. Prof. Nnkya holds a PhD and has extensive experience as a university lecturer, researcher, advisor and consultant in urban planning and housing, as well as an administrator of university academic, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) Advisory Board on Human Settlements Research Network (HS-Net), and as coordinator of a collaborative research project – Enhancement of Research Capacity (ENRECA) between the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Ardhi University. He is the co-founder of the Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS).

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Professor Marco Burra is a specialist, multi-skilled scholar with practical and theoretical competences in urban and regional land use planning, design of settlements and environmental management. He is an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Spatial Planning and Social Sciences (SSPSS), Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam. He has a long experience as a researcher and consultant in urban planning and design; environment and regional development matters and has written several publications in international refereed journals, conference proceedings and books/manuals. He also works as a consultant for private and public agencies and is an active member of various professional organizations.

Professor Burra has held various posts at the School and Departments in various periods, including Dean of School, School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP: 2013-16), Head, Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP: 2011-13), Head, Department of Regional Development Planning (RDP: 2008-11) and has served in the various University Boards and Committees as a member over the last 20 years.

Professor Marco Burra has taught for over 35 years at the former Ardhi Institute, UCLAS and now Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam. He has also been a visiting scholar at several institutions, including the Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark (1984-7 and 2000), Centre for Research, NIBE-Aalborg, Denmark (1999), Nordic Africa Institute-NAI, Uppsala-Sweden (2000), University of Cape Town-UCT (2004 and 2008), Centre for Development Research-AICAD, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Nairobi (2005), Makerere University (2008), as Lead Scientist, VicRes Research on Community Initiatives: 2006-2010, Inter-University Council of East Africa-IUCEA Kampala (2007-10); with conferences at Jinja Nile Resort (2006), Ngurudoto Mountain Resort-Arusha (2009), Kenya School of Monetary Studies-Nairobi (2010) and Nairobi Baptist Conference Centre (2011).

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Clara Kweka-Msale (PhD) is a Lecturer at Ardhi University- Dar es Salaam. Her areas of specialization include land use planning and land governance. Dr. Clara has more than 10 years of experience on consultancy and research in Tanzania.

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Dr Emmanuel Mchome (PhD) is a Lecturer at Ardhi University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. He has a PhD Degree in Transportation Engineering, M.Sc. Degree in Urban Planning and Management with specialization in Urban Design; and Environmental Planning and Management. He has also a B.Sc. Degree in Urban and Regional Planning. Emmanuel Mchome was employed at Ardhi University, by then the University College of Lands and Architectural Studies (UCLAS) in 2001 and thus he has a working experience for more than fifteen years. Emmanuel Mchome is registered by Town Planners Registration Board (TPRB) as a Town Planner with Registration Number 0060-T0810. He is working in consultancy works to prepare General Planning Schemes such as Master Plans and Special Economic Zones and Detailed Planning Schemes such as Layout Plans, Neighborhood Plans/Schemes, Regularization Plans/Schemes and Resettlement Action Plans.

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