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Services
Local Governance, Capacity Building & Institutional Development
We offer services for Local Governance, Capacity building and institutional development aimed at empowering our clients, to play an effective role in urban development planning, management, and governance.
Services are tailored to the specific requirements of our clients, supporting them to develop their capacity, identify and assess their institution-building priorities and strengthen their management capacity.
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Urban Policy Advisory Services
We offer robust, strategic and evidence-based policy advice to clients including international and national government agencies, development partners, local authorities and the private sector.
Our experience brings particular insight into policy relating to sustainable urban development, housing, integrated land use, gender development, infrastructure planning and financing, mobility, environmental sustainability, and climate change action.
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Affordable Housing and Slum Upgrade
We offer a wide range of informal settlement upgrading and community development consulting services while working closely with profit and not for profit organizations as well as government entities to promote and foster affordable housing.
Our primary focus is on affordable housing and slum upgrading although our expertise extends into design and mixed-use housing strategies. PSS Urbania offers the following services to individual investors, private sector businesses and government entities:
- Housing policy development
- Housing market analysis and Funding Advice
- Housing finance
- Sustainable housing design
- Energy efficiency strategies for housing
- Development of Slum upgrading strategies
- Design of training manuals
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Urban Planning, Housing and Slum Upgrading
PSS Urbania has a dedicated team of urban planners and experienced analysts with specialised competencies. With an extensive track record in strategic planning and urban development planning, our primary focus has always been urban land use planning, spatial planning and policy planning. Our aim is to provide integrated urban solutions that respond effectively and appropriately to current urban challenges and promote sustainable, socially inclusive and resilient communities.
We offer specialised urban planning expertise in the following services:
- Sustainable Land use Planning
- Infrastructure Planning
- Strategic Planning
- Transportation Planning
- Master Plan Development
- Urban Growth Policies
- Urban Renewal
- Design of neighborhood regeneration plans and projects
- GIS services
- Tourism Planning
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Environmental Engineering Services
We provide the full spectrum of environmental services catering to the needs of all the sectors we serve. We believe in a holistic approach where environmental, social and development needs and measures are addressed and integrated from inception.
We offer our clients research assistance in the following areas:
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
- Sustainability Appraisal
- Socio Impact Assessment (SIA)
- Climate Resiliency
- Resources and Waste Management
- Environmental management, Audit and due diligence
- Public Consultation and Communication
- GIS services
- Planning for Municipal Open Space
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Research and Monitoring
PSS Urbania is staffed by internationally recognised researchers, at the forefront of initiatives to analyze urban dynamics and challenges. Our research rests on the assumption that urban centres will drive the economic, social and physical development and stability of a country.
Our research teams take on a city-level, national and cross-border approach with robust research approaches that recognize the economic, social and environmental contexts of urban policy, planning and management issues. Using mixed-methodology research approaches, we combine various participatory urban research techniques with rigorous strategic spatial analysis to provide our clients with evidence-based actionable recommendations to support our clients’ needs.
We have the combined expertise to carry out and oversee all project phases of research, assessments, impact studies, feasibility analysis, and policy research in the areas of:
We offer specialised urban planning expertise in the following services:
- Regional and urban development
- Environment and energy
- Climate change, urban risks and resilience
- Local economic development and Municipal finance
- Urban Governance
- Housing & Urban Informality
- Parks and outdoor recreation planning and management