Tanzania Resilience Academy
Tanzania Resilience Academy equips young people with the tools, knowledge, and skills to address the world’s most pressing urban challenges and ensure resilient urban development.
Resilience Academy began as an initiative of Tanzania Urban Resilience Program, a partnership between the Government of Tanzania, World Bank, and FCDO.
It is now institutionalised and has an MoU partnership between Tanzanian government (Tanzania ICT commission) and four academic institutions in Tanzania (ARU, UDSM, SUA, SUZA), along with UTU in Finland, with other member partners and organisations.
Resilience Academy's service delivery is built on four pillars:
Industrial placement
RA’s student industrial placement program trains Tanzanian students for 8 weeks in digital geospatial data collection to support urban resilience planning, involving community participation.
Open e-learning assets
RA creates and distributes educational content for practical data and analysis skills used in university degree programs, and also offers open access to the materials for self-study purposes.
Climate Risk Database
RA manages and shares geospatial data via the Geonode-based Climate Risk Database. Datasets from the student industrial placements and from other stakeholders are stored within the system.
Research and innovation
RA fosters urban resilience with innovative research, novel ideas, technology, and data by collaborating with international researchers, universities and students.
