Engineering Professional

"Education and Skills" M.Sc . Urban Design and Conservation   (Master's Thesis: Urban Design and Pedestrian Behavior) Bachelor in Civil Engineering (Rural Infrastructure Engineering/ Urban & Regional Planning) Diploma in Computer  Application Diploma in Legal Studies Introduction to Contract in Law Diploma in EU Public Procurement Diploma in Project Management Government Economic Policy Successfully completed and passed the 5 weeks training course "Fundamentals of Climate Change", The Open Learning Campus; World Bank. Successfully completed and passed the 5 weeks training course "Debt Management Performance Assessment (DeMPA)", The Open Learning Campus, World Bank.   Successfully completed and passed the 5 weeks training course " Investment Planning toward Low Emissions Development", The Open Learning Campus; World Bank.  Successfully completed and passed the 5 weeks training course  "Saving Energy Throu

Given the cross-cutting nature of climate change as a policy issue, decisions over which mitigation and adaptation measures to adopt will be determined by the social, economic and political circumstances in individual cities and guided by the weight given to climate change concerns, rather than any absolute evaluation of their effectiveness. There are multiple drivers and potential barriers to both mitigation and adaptation and the smart option is to recognize that climate change is here and inaction now will lead to higher costs in the future. Some of those barriers are detailed below. Uncertainty about the nature and extent of climate change and its impacts. The complexity and challenges of climate change impacts, adaptation needs and the reality of reducing emissions are often more challenging than anticipated. Lack of consensus around certain issues, both in terms of evidence and potential solutions. Lack of awareness among stakeholders. The short planning horizons o

For decades, modernistic planning traditions have imposed zoning ordinances in developing countries that were designed for European towns.  The development standards were not affordable to the poor and enforcement was unrealistic. Additionally, middle- and higher-income groups used planning as a way of maintaining their property values and excluding “less desirable” low-income residents, ethnic minorities and traders from their areas.  Consequently, such a top-down planning approach failed to accommodate the needs of the majority of residents in rapidly growing and largely poor informal cities and contributed to urban poverty and socio-spatial marginalization.  Unfortunately, modernistic planning remains the dominant form of planning in most parts of the world. Limitations of conventional approaches to address urban poverty include: Slum clearance and relocation, which sees slums as visually unacceptable in their plans for modernization.  Slums were demolished and their

The occurrence of extreme catastrophic events can be sudden, quick and unpredictable.  However, the recurrences of minor disaster events that cause enormous losses in human lives and economic assets over a long period of time are abetted by changing patterns of land use, especially deforestation, poorly planned development and the increasing concentration of people and capital in vulnerable areas (for example, in the coastal regions exposed to windstorms, in the fertile river basins exposed to floods, and in urban areas exposed to earthquakes.  Disaster vulnerability is enhanced by an overburdened urban infrastructure, urban and rural poverty, and overuse of environmental resources. Prevention of such disasters is possible if we rethink the way we live and use our resources.  Several factors contribute to any disaster, some less obvious than others. For example, the immediate cause of a bridge or building collapse may be a mud slide, though poor design or construction, or