Nalumino Mayumbelo

About Nalumino Mayumbelo

Country: Zambia
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Nalumino Mayumbelo has over seven years of experience in urban, regional, town, and land use planning. Currently, she is a town planner at Ndola City Council under the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development in Zambia, where she is focusing on integrated development planning, local area planning, development control, and land use planning to achieve coordinated development and an aesthetically acceptable urban environment. In volunteering works, she promotes the use of geospatial data through mapping, as the vice-chairperson and a co-founder of Local Knowledge Mappers. She is a 2023 YouthMappers leadership fellow and was awarded a certificate of recognition for her demonstrated leadership potential, technical abilities in open mapping, and commitment to community building around the world in support of open mapping for resilience. Nalumino holds a Bachelor of Science degree in urban and regional planning and is currently pursuing a master's degree in urban and regional planning at the Copperbelt University in Zambia. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Nalumino plans to continue her work in the town planning profession, focusing on community-driven sustainable development through IDPs and using GIS for evidence-based decision-making, and extensively contributing to the upgrading of unplanned settlements in Zambia.

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