Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK)

In Nairobi, Dakar and Mombasa a common research approach under WP1 focuses on the health impacts of a key everyday, human-induced primary hazard - namely poor solid waste management (SWM), and relevant associated...

Work in Dar es Salaam is led by the University of Cape Town under WP2.2 (Climate and Risk in Urban Settings) and King’s College London under WP3.2 (Trajectories in urban disaster risk management and understanding...

Work in Freetown is led by the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at the University College London under work packages WP4.1 (Governance and Planning practices and urban risk) and WP4.3 (Participatory processes for...

Research currently underway in Ibadan innovates a city scale DesInventar methodology that is explicitly designed to draw out extensive as well as intensive loss data and underlying social vulnerability.

Research in Karonga applies a community level Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment method. This develops work at Mzuzu University on community disaster risk and vulnerability assessment.

Work in Lideta, Addis Ababa is led by UN-Habitat and focuses on piloting the CityRAP tool (Resilience Action Program). 

In Nairobi, Dakar and Mombasa a common research approach focuses on the health impacts of a key everyday, human-induced primary hazard - namely poor solid waste management (SWM), and relevant associated secondary hazards...

In Nairobi, Dakar and Mombasa a common research approach focuses on the health impacts of a key everyday, human-induced primary hazard - namely poor solid waste management (SWM), and relevant associated secondary hazards...

Work in Niamey focuses on developing a new methodology to investigate aspects of resilience in very poor urban contexts where economic assets are universally constrained. It was developed to explore scope for adapting a...