Hazards and Disaster Research Centers in Africa

This page includes a listing of university-based hazards and disaster research centers, organized alphabetically and by UN subregion in Africa.

Eastern Africa

Center/Institute	University	Country
Department of Disaster Risk Management and Sustainable Development (Periperi U)	Bahir Dar University	Ethiopia
African Center for Disaster Risk Management	Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia
Department of Community Health and Behavioural Studies (Periperi U)	Moi University	Kenya
Centre d’Etudes et de Recherchers Economiques pour le dévopement (CERED) (Periperi U)	University of Antananarivo	Madagascar
Centre for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Research (CCCDRMR)	Malawi University of Science and Technology	Malawi
Unidade de Produção e Gestão de Riscos de Desastres (UPGRD) (Periperi U)	Technical University of Mozambique	Mozambique
Disaster Management Training Centre (Periperi U)	Ardhi University	Tanzania
Department of Community Health and Behavioural Studies (Periperi U)	Makerere University	Uganda
Disaster Management Training Centre	Mulungushi University	Zambia
Disaster Management Masters’ Programme	National University of Science and Technology	Zimbabwe

Middle Africa

Center/Institute	University	Country	Year Established
Centre for Hazard Monitoring and Disaster Management (CEDIM) (Periperi U)	University of Buea	Cameroon

Northern Africa

Center/Institute	University	Country	Year Established
Built Environment Research Laboratory (LBE) (Periperi U)	University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene	Algeria
UNESCO Chair in Water Resources	Omdurman Islamic University	Sudan

Southern Africa

Center/Institute	University	Country
Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa (UFS-DiMTEC)	University of the Free State	South Africa
Natural Hazard Centre, Africa	University of Pretoria	South Africa
African Centre for Disaster Studies	North-West University	South Africa
Research Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction (RADAR) (Periperi U)	Stellenbosch University	South Africa

Western Africa

Center/Institute	University	Country
Department of Geography and Resource Development (Periperi U)	University of Ghana	Ghana
West African Science Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL)		Ghana
Centre for Disaster Risk Management and Development Studies (CDRMDS) (Periperi U)	Ahmadu Bello University	Nigeria
Centre for Disaster Risk Management and Development Studies (CDRM&DS)	Federal University of Technology, Minna	Nigeria
Centre For Disaster Risk Management and Development Planning	University of Portharcourt	Nigeria
Training and Research Unit For Agronomy, Aquaculture and Food Technology (Periperi U)	Gaston Berger University	Senegal

If you have questions about this project, please contact Lori Peek at lori.peek@colorado.edu. If you would like your academic research center listed on this page, or if you’d like to update or add information to a center currently on the map, please contact Emma Hines at emmanuelle.hines@colorado.edu.