Road transport

Urban Development Technical Facility, as part of INTPA F.4.

The UDTF focuses on supporting partner countries in their urban development challenges. It delivers technical assistance and policy advice to improve the quality and impact of the EU’s interventions in urban development at all levels—local, regional and global—with a focus on Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Integrated urban planning coupled with greener infrastructure and coordinated urban expansion can increase a city’s urban resilience while minimizing the negative environmental impacts of human settlement.

You can contact the UDTF team by filling out the personal contact form below.

Francis Dakyaga holds an integral background in rural and urban development planning. He holds Ph.D in Spatial Planning from TU-Dortmund, Germnay. MS.c in Urban and Regional Development Planning and Management from TU-Dortmund University, Germany and Ardhi University, Tanzania. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Integrated Community Development from the University for Development Studies, Ghana.
Practically, he gained diverse experiences via consultancies with local and International Non-Governmental Organisations and National public departments (e.g. TI-Germany, GII, Care International Ghana, CIKOD, Send Ghana, ActionAid, Vibrant Village Foundation etc) in the areas of Development research, Project monitoring and evaluation; Ex-ante evaluation, Impact evaluations and Ex-post Evaluation, Project management, Project Appraisal, urban land management, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Social Impact Assessment (SIA), Climate change, Rural development, Poverty and Vulnerability Analysis.
His academic interests are in the areas of; urban planning, management of urban informalities, Urban development control, Urban infrastructure an

I am a Development Expert and have worked extensively on multidisciplinary research projects in thematic areas such as energy access, rural energy planning, rural transport planning, as well as on data analyses, data visualizations, and geographic information systems. He has worked as a consultant for different organizations including ILC Africa (Ghana), African Governance and Development Institute (Cameroun) and the African Development Bank (AfDB). He is in charge of managing the Monitoring and Evaluation component of the World Bank – Supported Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria where he is leading the preparation of several is contributing to the implementation of projects with a portfolio of over US$50m spanning civil works, livelihood support, institutional capacity building, and project management. Uduak has a BSc in Statistics from the University of Uyo (Nigeria); an M.Sc. in Energy Studies with specialization in Energy Economics (with distinction) from the University of Dundee, United Kingdom; and a PhD in Development Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom.

Experienced consultant having developed a large number of RTD and consultancy studies for the European Commission notably for DG Move, DG Research and EMSA , European Parliament and for other multilateral bodies as UNECE, UNDP, World Bank or EIB.
Those studies focus on a diversity of subjects across all transport modes with particular emphasis on topics related with transport infrastructure financing, transport innovation and European transport policies; inclusion & diversity, urban mobility
Representative of TIS in several networks such as CCAM partnership, C-Roads, etc.
Team leader for the Atlantic core network corridor

Experienced Program Manger with a demonstrated history of working in the international organizations, government administration and private sector.
Skilled in Project management, Program Coordination, Contract Management, Procurement, supervision, preparation and implementation of infrastructure projects.
Working with EU Delegation to Albania since 2007.