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Dr C. Chavhunduka

Qualifications: Doctor of Philosophy (Development) (University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA); Master of Business Administration (UZ); Master of Science in Regional and Urban Planning (UZ); Bachelor of Arts Honours (Geography) UZ; Certificate in Regional Development Planning (United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nairobi, Kenya); Certificate in Development Planning (University College London)

Research interests: Urban management and governance; Urban land policy and management; Decentralisation and local government

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Professional Affiliations

• Corporate Member of the Zimbabwe Institute of Regional and Urban Planners
• Corporate Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute

Specialization

• Development Planning

Publications

1. Jacobs, H. and Chavunduka, C. 2003. “Devolution for land administration in Zimbabwe: Opportunities and challenges, In: Michael Roth and Francis Gonese (eds.) Delivering land and securing livelihoods: Post – independence land reform and resettlement in Zimbabwe, Harare, CASS & LTC, p. 285 - 300
2. Chavunduka, C. and Bromley, D. W. 2010. “Beyond the crisis in Zimbabwe: Sorting out the land question,” Development Southern Africa, 27 (3), 363 - 79
3. Chavunduka, C. and Bromley, D. W. 2011. “Climate, Carbon, Civil War, and Flexible Boundaries: Sudan’s contested landscape,” Land Use Policy, 28, 907 – 16
4. Chavunduka, C. and Bromley, D. W. 2013. “Considering the multiple purposes of land in Zimbabwe’s economic recovery,” Land Use Policy, 30 (10), 670 – 76.
5. Mpofu, I. and Chavunduka, C. M. 2019.  “Parameters of Land-Use Densification in Urban Zimbabwe: Lessons from Harare City,” In: I. Chirisa (ed.), The Sustainability Ethic in the Management of the Physical, Infrastructural and Natural Resources of Zimbabwe, Bamenda: Cameroon, Langaa RPCIG, 151 – 180.
6. Kwangwama, N. A., and Chavunduka, C. M. 2018. “The scope and prospects for communicative planning in Zimbabwe: A review,” In: I. Chirisa (ed.), Fundamentals of Planning and Real Estate Studies: A Primer for Zimbabwe, Harare, University of Zimbabwe Publications, 499 – 524.
7. Chavunduka, C., and Zimunya, W. 2018. Land readjustment: The missing link in urban Zimbabwe, African Journal of Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, Issue No. 2, 1 – 17.
8. Chavunduka, C. 2018. Land patronage and static urban boundaries in Zimbabwe: Implications for land tenure security, African Journal of Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, Special Issue, 107 – 118.
9. Chavunduka, C. 2020. The Use of Land Value Capture Instruments for Financing Urban Infrastructure in Zimbabwe, In: Walter Timo de Vries, John Tiah Bugri, Fatima Mandhu (eds),  Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions: An African Context, London, Taylor & Francis Group, 221-230.
10. Chigudu, A. and Chavunduka, C., 2021. The Tale of Two Capital Cities: the Effects of Urbanization and Spatial Planning Heritage in Zimbabwe and Zambia, Urban Forum, 32 (1), 33 – 47.
11. Manjeya, E., Chirisa, I., and Chavunduka, C. 2020. Spatial Justice and the Design of Future Cities in the Developing World, The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Urban and Regional Futures.
12. Chavunduka, C. 2020. Land Policy, Investment and Production as Ingredients to Agrarian Transformation: The Zimbabwe Experience, African Journal of Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 3(3), 80 – 90.
13. Chavunduka, C., Chikuku, K., and Chivenge, M. 2021. Stocktaking Participatory and Inclusive Land Readjustment in Africa, In R. Home (ed.) Land Issues for Urban Governance in Sub – Saharan Africa, Springer.

Dr. A Salahuddin 

PhD, MSc Structiral Eng.

Senior Lecturer

Research and Innovation

• Analysis & design of box 2 plate-girder bridges.

Finite element of Structures

Research Focus Areas

• Computers in Civil Engineering
  • Super-Computers in engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence

Expert Systems

Visiting Lecturer

Eng Happymore Mbiza

Eng Happymore Mbiza is a Civil Engineering doctorate candidate at the University of Johannesburg (SA) and Lund University (Sweden). He has an MSc in Municipal Water and Infrastructure from Unesco-IHE Institute for Water Education (The Netherlands) and an MSc in Urban Water Engineering and Management from Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand). His BSc is in Environmental Science and Technology from Chinhoyi University of Technology (Zimbabwe).  He is a member of the International Water Association and the Water Institute of South Africa. He has supervised about 120 undergraduate students over the years. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for Springer Nature Journal and Water Research Commission.

Eng Mbiza is the founder and board chairman of The Centre for Smart Cities and Global Health (formerly Vermex Water Systems Private Limited.) He has been the Executive director at Vermex Water Systems since 2018, a role he took after working for Chinhoyi university of Technology as a Lecturer in the department of Environmental Engineering for 4 years. Eng Mbiza was a Science and Technology Officer in The Ministry of Science and Technology Development for 5 years.

Eng Mbiza’s main areas of expertise and research interest are;

1. New and upcoming water and wastewater treatment technologies including greywater reclamation
2. Emerging contaminants (micro-pollutants, pharmaceuticals, micro-plastics and Endocrine Disrupting Substances)
3. Environmental/water accounting and auditing,
4. Water quality standards, regulations and economics in the SADC context
5. Disaster management and environmental safety planning in developing countries
6. Environmental Quality Monitoring and Control
7. Data management and security in the water sector
8. Environmental/water-sensitive urban design

Publications

1. Nhapi and H. Mbiza (2015) SLB and Zim-Asset: A strategic Framework for Urban WASH Services Delivery in Zimbabwe, Paper Presented at the Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers 8thCongress, 14-19 September, Victoria Falls, Harare, Zimbabwe.
2. H. Mbiza and A. Anachhatre (2014) Performance of Activated Sludge Systems in Tropical Climates:  A case of the Tung Kru Wastewater Treatment Plant in Bangkok (Thailand

Book chapter (including edited)

Options for Achieving Smart Communities through Sustainable Urban Sanitation in Zimbabwe

Innocent Nhapi and Happymore Mbiza. Department of Environmental Engineering, Chinhoyi University of Technology, P. Bag 7724, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe, Cell +263-772111487, Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Consultancy reports

Consultancy report: Chinhoyi Municipality Water Audit (2017)

Consultancy report: Rusape Municipality Water Audit (2017)

Consultancy report: Versatility of vermiculite in water and wastewater treatment (2017)

Consultancy report: City of Kadoma Property Survey (2018)

Consultancy report: City of Harare (Higherlife Foundation), Formative Evaluation of the Harare Cholera Emergency Response Project (2019)

Consultancy report: Compendium of sanitation technologies in peri-urban and unserviced areas in Zimbabwe. Welthungerhilfe (2020)

Chairman

Eng. Samson Shumba

Qualifications: MSc (Integrated Water Resources Management)- University of Zimbabwe, BSc (Eng) Hons Civil - University of Zimbabwe.

Specialisation: Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Materials, Construction Technology, Water Resources Management, Solid Waste Management

Publications:

1. Mapangire B., Shumba S. and Mushiri T., 2019. Design of an Integrated Fruit and Vegetable Processing Factory located at Juru Service Centre, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. 10^th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management (ICSECM) 12^th – 14^th December 2019, Earl’s Regency Hotel, Kandy, Sri Lanka. ISBN 978-955-589-274-2 ICSECM2019-48 pp 309 – 325.
2. Mukura T. E., Mushiri T. and Shumba S., 2019. Design of a Composite Timber-Concrete Footbridge across Sakubva River, Mutare. Case of Nyanhongo Village, Dora, In: Laryea S and Essah E. (Eds) Proceedings of the 10th West Africa Built Environment Research (WABER) Conference, 5-7 August 2019, Accra, Ghana, pp 381 – 402; ISBN 978-9988-2-6010-1.
3. Mukura T.E., Shumba S. and Vassileva L.D., 2018. American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Advances in Civil Engineering Materials. Special Issue on Advances in Pavement Technologies in the Emerging Economies. ACEM-2017-0038. Volume 7, No. 2, 2018, pp 272-290. ISSN 2379-1357. Available online at www.astm.org. doi:10.1520/ACEM20170038
4. Shumba J., Vassileva L.D., Shumba S. and Cheure N., 2017. Proceedings of European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) International Conference for Research, Innovation and Development for Africa held from 20-21 June 2017 in Victoria Falls.  Published in European Union Digital Library. Page 20-30. http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.20-6-2017.2270749. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.20-6-2017.2270749
5. Philip T., Shumba S., Vassileva L.D. and Cheure N., 2017. Proceedings of European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) International Conference for Research, Innovation and Development for Africa held from 20-21 June 2017 in Victoria Falls. Published in European Union Digital Library. Pages 52-64. http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.20-6-2017.2270747. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.20-6-2017.2270747
6. Matora T., Shumba, S., Mushiri, T., Taaka, D., Musiwa, K., Mhizha, S. and Tumbare, M.J., 2017.  Proceedings of European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) International Conference for Research, Innovation and Development for Africa held from 20-21 June 2017 in Victoria Falls. Published in European Union Digital Library. Pages 432-441. http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.20-6-2017.2270761. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.20-6-2017.2270761
7. Shumba S., Makurira H., Nhapi I. and Gumindoga, W., 2014. Environmental Impacts of Natural and Man-Made Hydraulic Structures-Case Study Middle Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe. International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM). Volume 3, Issue 1. Pp 242 -257.

Conference Proceedings:

1. Mukondwa F., Shumba S., Mukahadira E. and Salahuddin A.S., 2016.  Permanent support in underground caverns: Case study of the Kariba South Draft Tube Assess Tunnel. Exhibited at the 17^th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWPSA Symposium, 20-28 October 2016, Gaborone, Botswana.
2. Musarurwa B., Shumba S., Mashingaidze M.Z., Caetano, M. and Zonde A., 2015. A Case Study for the Use of Limestone as Road Base: Testing for Compliance with Specifications. Proceedings of the 8^th Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers Congress-UNESCO Africa Engineering Week, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 14-19 September 2015.
3. Cheure N., Shumba S., Vassileva L.D. and Mukahadira E., 2015. Site Investigation and Design of a Grade Separated Intersection in Harare, Zimbabwe. Proceedings of the ASANRA 7^th Africa Transportation Technology Transfer Conference, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, May 2015.
4. Antonio E., Shumba S. and Vassileva, L.D., 2015. Application of Fly ash and Blast Furnace Slag Stabilized Soils in Pavement Design: Case Study Harare – Mutare Road, Zimbabwe. Proceedings of the ASANRA 7^th Africa Transportation Technology Transfer Conference, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, May 2015.
5. Kusosa C., Shumba S. and Vassileva, L.D., 2015. Stabilisation of a Road Pavement Using Polymeric Stabilisers: Case Study of Christian Road, Shamva District, Zimbabwe. Proceedings of the ASANRA 7^th Africa Transportation Technology Transfer Conference, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, May 2015.