All Periperi U partner universities aim to: 

• Develop active teaching and training, research and policy advocacy capacity in Africa on disaster risk and vulnerability reduction.
• Build capacity to provide at least 2-4 short courses annually in disaster risk management, vulnerability reduction, food/livelihood security or subjects relevant to risk and vulnerability reduction in their country.
• Develop either undergraduate and/or graduate programmes related to reducing or managing the risk and vulnerabilities in their country.
• Generate applied research outputs related to risks and vulnerabilities that increase local understanding and improve the risk management.

Who are the Periperi U partners?

Many Periperi U partners are already active risk reduction role-players with their respective local and national governments, and have strong ‘networking’ links to other regional and global risk reduction initiatives. Nine have been identified so far.

They are:

• Bahir Dar University (Bahir Dar, Ethiopia)
• Built Environment Research Laboratory (LBE), University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB) in Algeria
• Disaster Management Training Centre (DMTC), Ardhi University (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania)
• Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods Programme, DiMP, UCT (Cape Town, South Africa)
• Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda)
• University of Ghana (Accra, Ghana)
• Universidade Técnica de Moçambique (UDM) (Maputo, Moçambique)
• University of Antananarivo, (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
• Moi University (Eldoret, Kenya)
• Gaston Berger University (St. Louis, Senegal)

All these Periperi U partners are committed to strengthen local human resource capacity in risk reduction through applied scholarship that addresses the priority risks in their respective countries. However, they also represent a wide range of disciplines, including public health, engineering, urban planning and environmental and geographical science.

What is DiMP’s Role?

DiMP is the secretariat for Periperi U and is the overall project manager on behalf of USAID/OFDA. DiMP is also responsible for coordinating Periperi U meetings and for establishing/maintaining the Risk Reduction Africa site to ensure this adds value to existing websites on disaster risk reduction in Africa.

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