PERIPERI U
Partners Enhancing Resilience for People Exposed to Risks
Partners Enhancing Resilience of People Exposed to Risks, advancing disaster risk-related scholarship across Africa for sustainable development.
PERIPERI U is a platform for university partnership to reduce disaster risks in Africa, with a special focus on advancing university action on risk and vulnerability reduction.
The partnership represents African academia on the continent-wide African Working Group for Disaster Risk Reduction (AWGDRR), offering disaster risk-related academic programmes and practical short courses in local languages to government and civil society practitioners.
Established in 2006 with five universities, the partnership has grown to include institutions from Algiers to Antananarivo, and from Dakar to Bahir Dar. As a consortium, PERIPERI U is a recognised IRDR International Centre of Excellence in Risk Education and Learning (ICoE REaL), coordinated by Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
New applied academic programmes generating urgently needed local disaster risk reduction professionals
Regular, accessible short courses in local languages for practitioners
A surge in research improving the knowledge base for disaster risk management
Flexible exchange visits for partnership members to learn from colleagues
Access our programmes, research, and resources to strengthen disaster risk knowledge across Africa.
Latest updates from the partnership and the field of disaster risk reduction.
