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Rebecca Enobong Roberts

Rebecca Enobong Roberts

Rebecca Enobong Roberts is a multidisciplinary development economist and a PhD candidate at the Technische Universität Berlin's Habitat Unit. Her core expertise is in community organisation and engagement, public health, public education, and human rights, including informalities (rights to the city, livelihood, and housing), sustainable urbanisation, displacement, urban refugees, forced migration, youth development, public policy analysis, advocacy, and project monitoring and evaluation.

Contact
Hosting institute
  • German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Current affiliation
  • Technical University of Berlin, Germany
  • The University of Lagos, Nigeria
Memberships
Key expertise
  • Forced Displacement
  • Forced Migration
  • Inclusive Urbanisation
  • Resettlement
  • Local Integration
  • Social Cohesion
  • Rights to the City
  • Action Research
  • Community Engagement
Regional expertise
  • Urban poor, informalities, urban rights, forced evictions, women, children, IDPs and refugees, LGBTI

Profile according to FFVT taxonomy

Scientific topics
  • Borders
  • Civil Society Engagement
  • Economy Of Forced Migration
  • Gender
  • Integration And Social Participation
  • Infrastructure Of Flight / Forced Migration
  • International Protection
  • Local And Municipal Refugee Policies
  • Migration Routes, Refugees’ Journeys
  • Religion
  • Self-Organization
  • Transnational Networks
  • Humanitarianism
  • Environment And Climate
Disciplines
  • Civil Engineering / Architecture / Urban Studies
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

Professional Career

Relevant publications

  • Roberts, R.What Lagos Can Learn About Housing the Majority Population from Tokyo.
  • Roberts, R.The crackdown on the informal poor – a problem or a solution?.2018.
  • Roberts. R.Cities need to change their perceptions of poor people.2019.
  • Roberts, R.What to do about Lagos' slums.2019.
  • Roberts, R.Urban Planning Processes in Lagos: The Ways Forward.2019.