PERIPERI

The ‘Partners Enhancing Resilience of People Exposed to Risks' (PERIPERI U) partnership represents a collaboration of 12 higher education institutions (HEIs) spanning Africa, committed to advancing disaster risk-related scholarship in support of sustainable development. Established in 2006 with five universities, the partnership has grown incrementally, and now offers 21 disaster risk-related academic programmes along with 26 modules and courses nested in other disciplines. Beyond the level of individual universities, the partnership has self-organised to ensure its mobilisation as a collective, and represents African academia on the continent-wide African Working Group for Disaster Risk Reduction (AWGDRR). In addition, as a consortium, Periperi U is a recognised Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) International Centre of Excellence in Risk Education and Learning (ICoE REaL), coordinated by Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Primary location: Stellenbosch South Africa