Rory Robertshaw is an expert consultant for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements working in various African cities. He has facilitated public-private partnerships at local government level, including operationalising the Metropolitan Trading Company where he filled the position of acting chief executive officer. He also worked for the STREETS Community Development Association in Cape Town, the Centre for Opportunity Development, the Safer Cities project in Greater Johannesburg, and Capital B Management. He has been a speaker and facilitator at international conferences and is a published author.

Antoinette Louw is head of the Crime and Justice Programme at the ISS. She joined the ISS in August 1997 as a senior researcher. She has been conducting research and has written extensively on issues of political violence and crime since joining the University of Natal’s Centre for Social and Development Studies in 1991, where she was also the editor of the two quarterly publications, Indicator SA and Crime and Conflict. Antoinette has a Masters degree in Political Studies from the University of Natal.

Anna W Mtani is the co-ordinator of the Safer Cities DSM Programme in Dar es Salaam since 1998. Her main focus is to strengthen the capacity of local authorities to reduce crime and violence in partnership with communities. Anna has an MSc. Human Settlements Analyst (Urban Surveys) from ITC Netherlands (1992). She joined the Ministry of Lands in 1980 where she focused on human settlement development. In 1993, she joined the Sustainable DSM Project (SDP) co-ordinating urban agriculture, open spaces, hazard lands & recreational areas. From 1997 to 1998, she co-ordinated the preparation of the DSM Strategic Urban Development Plan.