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	Year Established
Department of Disaster Risk Management and Sustainable Development (Periperi U)	Bahir Dar 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
Unidade de Produção e Gestão de Riscos de Desastres (UPGRD) (Periperi U)	Technical University of Mozambique	Mozambique	2008
Disaster Management Training Centre (Periperi U)	Ardhi University	Tanzania	2002
Department of Community Health and Behavioural Studies (Periperi U)	Makerere University	Uganda
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	2000
UNESCO Chair in Water Resources	Omdurman Islamic University	Sudan	1994

Southern Africa

Center/Institute	University	Country	Year Established
Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa (UFS-DiMTEC)	University of the Free State	South Africa	2005
Natural Hazard Centre, Africa	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2008
Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management	North-West University	South Africa
Research Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction (RADAR) (Periperi U)	Stellenbosch University	South Africa

Western Africa

Center/Institute	University	Country	Year Established
Department of Geography and Resource Development (Periperi U)	University of Ghana	Ghana	1991
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	2009
Centre for Disaster Risk Management and Development Studies (CDRM&DS)	Federal University of Technology, Minna	Nigeria	2009
Centre For Disaster Risk Management and Development Planning	University of Port Harcourt	Nigeria	2009
Training and Research Unit For Agronomy, Aquaculture and Food Technology (Periperi U)	Gaston Berger University	Senegal	2010

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.