Biography: Dr.Ambani Songoro is a Land Use Planner, GIS Expert, and Cartographer with over ten years’ experience in Land Use Planning, Geospatial Technologies, informal settlement planning and mapping, land tenure and administration, and natural resource planning. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Planning, a Master’s degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Honors degree in Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Nairobi. She also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Management and Development Theory from IHS-Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and a Diploma in Cartography from the Technical University of Kenya. Her professional engagements and experience have focused on areas of geospatial technologies, sustainable human settlements planning, especially within informal settlements and slums, preparation of master plans and physical development plans. She has successfully been involved in the preparation of GIS-enabled policy implementation tools, mapping of informal settlements, feasibility studies, human settlements and master planning, Urban Development Policy Frameworks, Economic and Socio-Cultural Rights projects, and land tenure regularisation policy guidelines.
Policy Brief – Working title
Wicked Urban Problems in Africa: Geo-visualisation of Proliferation of Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya.