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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.

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