AAPS is a network of 41 urban and regional planning departments or schools based in universities in Africa. Formed in 2002, it is also one of nine member planning school associations which make up GPEAN (the Global Planning Education Association Network). AAPS had its inaugural meeting in Cape Town in 2008, where representatives from most of the schools came together to discuss issues of planning education in Africa and a way forward for the Association.
With a Rockefeller grant from 2008-2010, AAPS has embarked on a project to revitalise planning education in Africa. The purpose of this project is to begin the debate, using AAPS as a network, on the current state of planning education in Africa and the extent to which it is aligned with currently realities and demands of African urban settlements; and to build a web and electronic-based resource of informational material and literature to assist academics and students with revised planning curricula. The aim is to start of a process of review and reform within the planning education sector of African higher education institutions, so that planning graduates can play a meaningful role in meeting the very serious challenges facing African cities.
AAPS Members:
Ain Shams University (Egypt)
Abia State University (Nigeria)
Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria)
University of Nigeria, Lagos
University of Ibadan (Enugu)
University of Lagos (Nigeria)
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (Nigeria)
University of Botswana
Catholic University of Mozambique
Copperbelt University (Zambia)
Ardhi University (Tanzania)
Kwame Nkrumah University, Kumasi (Ghana)
Makarere University (Uganda)
University of KwaZulu-Natal (S Africa)
University of Cape Town (S Africa)
Cape Peninsula University of Technology (South Africa)
Durban Institute of Technology (S Africa)
North-West University (S Africa)
University of Pretoria (S Africa)
University of Stellenbosch (S Africa)
University of Venda (S Africa)
University of Witwatersrand (S Africa)
Ethiopian Civil Service College
Mzuzu University (Malawi)
National University of Rwanda
Nairobi University (Kenya)
Kenyata University (Kenya)
University of Swaziland
University of Zimbabwe
