Katja Schafer

Since February 2006, Katja Schäfer has been working with UN-HABITAT’s Somali Urban Development Programme [SUDP]¹ as an Urban Planner in the Somaliland and Puntland regions, giving technical and planning support to a number of Local Authorities through on-the-job training on small strategic projects as a catalyst for wider urban development.

katja.schafer@dpu-associates.net

Katja Schäfer is an architect and urban planner who has more than 5 years of professional experience in development related teaching, research and consultancy in the fields of housing, urban development, strategic urban planning, decentralization, urban governance and management, institutional development and capacity building, on which she has worked in several countries and environments, both in post-conflict situations and the context of emergency support, disaster mitigation and rehabilitation.