domingo, 16 de janeiro de 2011

African Urban Risk Analysis Network (AURAN)

African Urban Risk Analysis Network (AURAN)
http://www.proventionconsortium.org/?pageid=32&projectid=4

«AURAN is an initiative of leading universities and NGOs in urban areas across Africa that was developed with support from UNDP and ProVention. The project's main goal was to bring international focus to the reduction of disaster risks in urban areas of Africa through the establishment of an African Urban Risk Analysis Network (AURAN) and the implementation of example risk reduction programmes in selected sites in Africa.

Through the AURAN project, network members built a virtual African network to allow disaster risk reduction researchers and practitioners to access common resources and share knowledge and experience. The website www.riskreductionafrica.org now provides a platform for institutional networking and information sharing amongst African universities, NGOs and CBOs on the subject of urban risk reduction.
The AURAN project supported community-based action research, a unique risk accumulation analysis of urban areas, and a network of participating partners working on urban project initiatives in several African countries. In each location a local partnership of academic institutions, governmental and non governmental organisations identified city and neighbourhood strategies to address growing degrees of disaster risk and inform policymaking at broader national and international levels.»