Research - Resilience Academy

RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

Resilient cities can be achieved through research and collaboration that support to enhance the innovative research that are based on the resilience topics.

The network of actors around Tanzania Urban Resilience Program constantly identify new data gaps and novel research topics, which can enrich the state-of the-art in disaster risk management with digital geospatial technologies and tools.

Resilience Academy promotes research around many topics, such as urban spatial planning, community mapping, flood monitoring and risk assessment, land and forest changes, urban climate, data quality and management, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Earth observation and geospatial technologies.

Our Research

Our research community have research on Open data for resilience, flood resilience in changing climate, earth observation for resilience, community mapping for improved spatial planning. Several Batchelor and Master’s theses have been completed related to the topics of urban resilience

List of Publications

Here you can find the list of publincations that have been conducted from Resilience Academy topics.

Researcher: Ryan Thomas | City and Regional Planning | 9/29/19

University: Cornell University | Ithaca, New York

The goal of this research was to understand the drivers of climate change adaptation by examining the politics of knowledge production about climate risk and framing of possible adaptation actions among communities, governments, and international organizations in Dar-es-Salaam.

Researcher: Kito Nicholus, 2018

University: Ardhi University

The research aimed at revealing the effect before establishment of D.M.D.P project in Dar es salaam where most of settlements experienced challenges like floods and road infrastructure. It was don in Mtoni kijichi ward where community movement was very difficult during the rainfall season because most of the road infrastructure was poor especially drainage system.

Researcher: Balthazar Masese, 2018.

University: Ardhi University

The purpose of this research was to explore how the community members have participated in the measures for reducing flood.

Researcher: Mdachi Faith Joshua, 2019

University: Ardhi University

The broad objective of this research was to investigate how the private firms involve the vulnerable groups and their requirements in provision of community facilities.

“I was really happy with the support i got from Resilience Academy. Also with the students i worked with and their good quality of work and their responsiveness to training and data collection. Due to this good support and valuable skills, I was able to conduct a success data collectioon for my research in only few days.”