Reflecting on some key results of the Women to Watch Project in Keko Machungwa.

A summary of the Dar es Salaam CityLab Women to Watch Project, which explores the relationship between gender and urban transformation through a practical, situated experiment in the neighborhood of Keko Machungwa.

Chamazi urban walk consist of neighborhood visits that the CityLab organizes with representatives of local communities, in order to generate conversations, debates, and grounded understanding of urban transformation in these local communities. It is a bottom up approach that also aims at informing policy responses to local issues.

Heat Stress in Unplanned Urban Settlement: Focus on Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

This research project was supported through the Climate Research for Development (CR4D) Programme at the African Academy of Sciences (AAS)

It is executed by the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria in collaboration with the Institute of Human Settlement Studies (IHSS), Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Project Team

Principal Investigator

Dr. Muyiwa Adegun

Obadegun@futa.edu.ng

Collaborators

Dr. Elinorata Mbuya - Contact: mbuyaangela@gmail.com

Dr. Nathalie Jean Batiste

Project Assistant (IHSS)

Emmanuel Njavike

The Claiming Space visual competition was organized by the CityLab Dar es Salaam with the aim of involving artists, designers and the general public in the exploration of how the city is transforming. A call for the competition for all artists in Tanzania was launched in April, 2019.