Tanzania Resilience Academy

It all began with Ramani Huria Initiatives where community members in Dar es Salaam with the help of University students, collected data and generated maps for resilience purposes. This is because 80% of Dar es Salaam settlements are in the informal areas and every year affected by rainy floods. Community members living in these areas are therefore affected by rain floods every year by losing their furniture, losing their houses and sometimes there is a loss of life.
 

  Through Ramani Huria experience and other Tanzania Urban Resilience Program (TURP) initiatives, many experiences and tools have been developed from the community members side and the university student side. I am so honoured to be part of Tanzania Resilience Academy which works with the University of Turku to transfer all the knowledge, share experience and provide training to the Universities in Tanzania about the tools developed from TURP especially the open source tools. Through Tanzania Resilience Academy, university members such as UDSM, ARU, SUZA and SUA are participating to develop training materials, use the experience and tools as well as extend the experience acquired for University interns and find long term modalities where the university networks can work with the other partners. University networks are also sharing experiences from other Universities such as University of Twente, Delft University as well as University of Turku

Team photo at the beginning of the kick-off workshop at Ardhi University

I look forward to seeing how this will evolve to bring impact on Resilience from the contribution of the Universities in Tanzania.

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