Habitat Unit

Associated Researcher

Dr. Millicent Akaateba

Millicent Akaateba

makaateba@uds.edu.gh

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Millicent Awialie Akaateba is an urban development planner with affiliation to the Habitat Unit since October 2014. She is a visiting lecturer in the Wits-TUB Urban Lab project and works permanently as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Planning and Land Management of the University for Development Studies, Ghana. She holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the Technical University of Berlin, an MSc in Transportation Planning and the Environment from the University of Leeds, UK and a BSc in Planning from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.

Millicent's research embraces issues around institutionalized co-production and critical urbanisms, particularly the synthesis between formal and informal arrangements in urban governance in sub-Saharan Africa. For her PhD research at the Habitat Unit of the TU-Berlin, Millicent focused on state and non-state actor interactions in neo-customary land delivery and planning in peri-urban Ghana. Using the rapidly growing secondary towns of Tamale and Techiman Ghana, her thesis quizzed the potential of co-production arrangements and the 'adaptation paradigm' of land policy for inclusive and sustainable land delivery in contexts of rapid urbanization.

Prior to her employment as a lecturer at the University for Development Studies, Ghana, Millicent worked as a private planning consultant with Ablin Consult Engineers and Planners Ltd in Accra Ghana on a range of projects related to road safety, socio-economic impact assessments, resettlement planning, urban transport planning, environmental planning and pro-poor development.

Education+

2014 – 2018
Doctorate of Philosophy (Dr. phil), Technical University of Berlin
Thesis Title: " Urban Planning Practice under Neo-customary Land Tenure: The interface between Government Agencies and Traditional Authorities in Peri-Urban Ghana", supervised by Prof. Dr. Philipp Misselwitz and Prof. Dr. Nina Gribat.

2008 – 2009
MSc. Transport Planning and the Environment
University of Leeds, UK

2003 – 2007
BSc. Planning (Hons)
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Employment History+

Since 2014
Lecturer
Department of Planning and Management, University for Development Studies, Ghana

2011 – 2014
Assistant Lecturer
Department of Planning and Management, University for Development Studies, Ghana

2010 – 2011
Urban Development/Transport Planner
Ablin Consult Planning and Engineering Ltd., Accra, Ghana

2007 – 2008
Teaching and Research Assistant
Department of Planning, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

Teaching Activities+

2018/2019
Planning Studio "District Development Planning Workshop I and II", FPLM, University for Development Studies.

Undergraduate teaching in Transportation Planning, Development Planning Process, Infrastructure Planning and Human Settlements Planning. BSc Planning Programme, University for Development Studies.

2018
Seminar: "Faces of the City Seminar" Neo-customary land delivery in peri-urban Ghana: CUBES, University of the Witwatersrand

2011-2014
Teaching responsibilities in the following modules of the BSc Planning and MSc Development Management Programmes:
- Planning Studio: "Rural Settlement Planning Workshop I and II" (2011-2014)
- Fundamentals/Foundations of Planning(2011-2014)
- Methods and Techniques of Participatory Planning (2012-2014)
- Infrastructure Planning (2012 – 2014)
- Strategic Planning and Management (2012)
- Project Planning and Management (2012-2013)
- Transportation Planning (2012-2013)

Publications+

Refereed articles

with Huang, H., and Adumpo, E. A. (2018). Between co-production and institutional hybridity in land delivery: Insights from local planning practice in peri-urban Tamale, Ghana. Land Use Policy, 72, 215-226.

with Amoh-Gyimah, R., Aidoo, E. N., and Appiah, S. K. (2017). The effect of natural and built environmental characteristics on pedestrian-vehicle crash severity in Ghana. International journal of injury control and safety promotion, 24(4), 459-468.

with Yakubu, I. and Akanbang, B. (2016). Drivers of housing development in Tamale Metropolitan District, Ghana. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography, 70(4), 247- 258.

with Yakubu, I. and Akanbang, B.A. (2015) Correlates and barriers associated with motorcycle helmet use in Wa, Ghana. In: Traffic injury prevention (Accepted version online)

with Amoh-Gyimah, R. and Amponsah, O., (2015) Traffic safety violations in relation to drivers' educational attainment, training and experience in Kumasi, Ghana. In: Safety Science (75)

with Haung, H. (2015). Exploratory practices of post-rural urbanization in China: processes, actors and performance, at the 16th N-AERUS Conference: Dortmund.

with Akanbang, B. and Yakubu, I., (2015) Programme Implementers' Experiences of Evaluation Use in Northern Ghana. In: Annals of Humanities and Development Studies (6)

with Yakubu, I. and Akanbang, B.A. (2014) A study of housing conditions and characteristics in the Tamale metropolitan area, Ghana. In: Habitat International (44)

with  Amoh-Gyimah, R. and Yakubu, I. (2014) A cross-sectional observational study of helmet use among motorcyclists in Wa, Ghana. In: Accident Analysis & Prevention (64)

with Amoh-Gyimah, R. (2013) Driver Attitude towards Traffic Safety Violations and Risk Taking Behaviour in Kumasi: The Gender and Age Dimension. In: International Journal for Traffic and Transport Engineering (3)

Conferences+

Conference proceedings

with Agyekum, P. (2011) Employment Intensive Schemes for the Youth. Lessons from Ghana's National Youth Employment Programme and the KaziKwaYijana Youth Employment Programme in Kenya. In: Proceedings of the 14th ILO Regional Seminar for Labour Based Practitioners. Accra International Conference Centre

Grants, Awards, and Fellowships+

2014 – 2017
DAAD- Government Scholarship Ghana (MoE)
awarded for a doctoral study at the Habitat Unit, TU-Berlin

2008 – 2009
Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme
awarded to persue a masters programme in Transport Planning and the Environment at the University of Leeds